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Less than a Full Deck.(Periscope; Antiquities)(Brief article)
Byline: Jesse Ellison
At the start of the Iraq War, U.S. troops were given decks of playing cards depicting Saddam Hussein and 54 other Baathist bad guys on the Pentagon's "most wanted" list. Now, new sets of cards illustrated with photographs of Iraq's wealth of ancient historical sites are being issued in hopes of teaching soldiers to respect the country's cultural treasures. Besides pictures of archeological landmarks and antiquities, the cards also offer basic lessons in historic preservation. The five of hearts shows a gun-toting soldier looking at a ...
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