Systematic Looting

Yeah, but we didn't invade for all this stuff... we did so for Democracy, right guys?!?

In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein's most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government's first extensive comments on the looting.

And it's not like it was a bunch of kids grabbing spare spares for their go-carts or something:

"They came in with the cranes and the lorries, and they depleted the whole sites," Dr. Araji said. "They knew what they were doing; they knew what they want. This was sophisticated looting."

Can I wake up from this nightmare now? Please?