Soldiers put Iraq 'war trophies' on eBay
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| Thu, 03-18-2004 - 11:54pm |
Excuse me but isn't this stealing?
>" A year after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq, items touted as having come from Saddam's palaces have turned up for sale on the auction Web site eBay.
The seller of one secondhand rug lists the previous owner of the roughly 6-by-9-foot piece of carpet as ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Customers can also bid on silverware embossed with the Iraqi army's crest and a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, which is purported to be from a Baghdad compound.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command told CNN that U.S. troops should have been prohibited from bringing such items home from Iraq. But the men selling the items say they had no trouble bringing them back."<
>" "We went through about 15 or 20 different palaces," he said. In one, "There were 15 rugs there, and every one of us grabbed one and we took them."
Another Iraq war veteran, Brian Cramer, is asking $150 for a Koran he said he found in one Baghdad compound. "<
>" He's also offering silverware from an Iraqi palace for sale.
He said he brought home numerous items from the palaces, including crystal and a teapot with a woman's figure inlaid in colored glass -- "different little things I thought would be nice to take home to the wife." "<
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/18/iraq.war.booty/index.html


Excuse me but isn't this stealing?
Most definitely!
War is ugly. It's dehumanizing. It brings out the worst in people as well as the best. I imagine it all depends on the innate goodness or badness in each of us.
Why is Ebay allowing this?
Agreed.