He believed that the past of Iraq was important to his national campaign and his regime actually doubled the national budget for archaeology and heritage creating museums and protecting sites all over Iraq.[6] It wasn't until his Ba'ath Party was under pressure in the 1990s that looting become a large problem once again for Iraq.[7] By 2000 looting had become so rampant that the workers of the sites were even looting their own workplaces.[8] With the fall of Saddam's government in 2003, archaeological sites were left completely open and looting became an even greater problem.