“Three White House cultural advisers have resigned in protest at the failure of US forces to prevent the looting of Iraq’s national museum.” The advisers were all members of the President’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Property. The three advisers had sharp words for the Bush administration’s failure to have in place any sort of contingency plan for dealing with such foreseeable problems, and committee chair Martin Sullivan, who is one of those resigning, added that the looting was doubly preventable, since the United States was the nation in control of the timetable of the war. “In a pre-emptive war that’s the kind of thing you should have planned for,” he said.