What is up with looting hospitals? I can see grabbing the fun meds, but the rest of it? Who do they think they're screwing with this? Looting govt offices is just payback, like bombing an IRS office. Looting merchants is just lowlife theivery, like Los Angeles, unless the merchants were state-licensed or pro-state, in which case payback may also be involved. (E.g., Bombing Fox News vs. Starbucks or Walmart) (There was also a racial motivation in LA, as some smaller merchants were Korean and the rioters were Negroes, and the riots themselves were racially instigated. I haven't heard of similar Sunni/Shiite differences motivating Iraqi rioters; I don't know if they can tell each other apart by sight, or by language.) At least the Marines actually have ammo in their weapons. The LA Nat'l Guardsmen didn't.