Jr. Stages the Fall of Saddam's Statue (Like the Stage of Lassie Come Home)

[enceladus]

The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) criticizes
some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one
spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the
invasion.

As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on
Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam
Hussein (news - web sites). It was a Marine colonel - not joyous Iraqi
civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images who decided to topple
the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army
psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi
undertaking

[E.E.Bud Keith]

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The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) criticizes
some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one
spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the
invasion.
As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on
Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam
Hussein (news - web sites). It was a Marine colonel - not joyous Iraqi
civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images who decided to topple
the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army
psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi
undertaking
Liberals are in a complete fright, it is getting to the point were any

excuse will do, which allows them to vent there hate, so what.if someone
gave them the idea, according to the film it was Iraqi's who tore down the
statue.