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An update has been added. More will be coming soon.
In mid-May 2003, when this story was newly written, the "major hostilities" in the Iraq war had just been declared ended by the President, after a long campaign in the press to get him to declare just such an event. (See various transcripts here, notably 15 April. And here. And here.
Immediately thereafter he was attacked without let up for daring to use a military platform to declare the first phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom an unqualified success.
This background may be useful to those who may detect a tone of outrage in to this part of the story - there is no outrage. As response to "we could have brought that statue down for a lot less" and numerous other patently snide comments from the sideline crowd, I did not mean the "loot the Smithsonian" comment as anything other than statement of fact.
Feel free to comment. I hope you'll enjoy this. It's the best I can do.