Someone blew the crap out of it.
It's all fucked up.
To understand the anger, I think, what if some asshole bombed this?
or this
or this?
Mommas, tell your children, "Don't blow up architectural treasures. It's really shitty, and no one will like you."
It was probably the Americans/Israelis who blew it up. There's an interesting link from James Wolcott's Vanity Fair blog tonight to a report from within Iraq that's very different from what we're reading in the United States. Check it out:
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