Hen, I realize that this is a windfall for the Bush Administration and
the Arabists who pictured such a tableau. But, I guess the ones who put
up the "Go Home Yank" signs in downtown Baghdad don't count...
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Subject: 1st & last channeling
from Washington Post today:
"Baghdadis poured into the streets in celebration, waving at U.S.
troops and tearing down posters and busts of Hussein.
In a
scene
reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraqis
attacked a giant
statue of Hussein with sledgehammers. With the help of
U.S.
Marines who ran a cable from their tank to the 20-foot
tall statue,
they pulled it down, literally yanking the image of the
fallen leader
out of his boots."
(these are the ones I'm in solidarity with).
Henry
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