http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-burns-8000-rare-books-030900856.html

Description: While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.

“ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,” said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.

During the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the library was looted and destroyed by mobs. However, the people living nearby managed to save most of its collections and rich families bought back the stolen books and they were returned to the library, All Faraj added.

“900 years ago, the books of the Arab philosopher Averroes were collected before his eyes...and burned. One of his students started crying while witnessing the burning. Averroes told him... the ideas have wings...but I cry today over our situation,” said Rayan al-Hadidi, an activist and a blogger from Mosul. Al-Hadidi said that a state of anger and sorrow are dominating Mosul now. Even the library's website was suspended.

This is so very sad, this might not have happened if Obama hadn't taken the troops out of the Middle East

>>3 Wtaf... It might not have happened if Bush hadn't taken us there to begin with.

"During the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the library was looted and destroyed by mobs. However, the people living nearby managed to save most of its collections and rich families bought back the stolen books and they were returned to the library, All Faraj added."

>>4 >bush started the middle eastern conflict
What?

>>5 Christ man, READ.

>>3 said this wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Obama leaving.

>>4 Was pointing out that the first time the library was looted and destroyed, and left vulnerable, was in 2003, before Obama was in office.

>>6 troops under the Obama administration leaving the area*