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Subj: Kerry's Flip Flops Graphic Date: 3/4/2004 10:13:41 PM EST 
Just two days before that article I designed this graphic:
Subj: Kerry's Flip Flops Graphic Date: 3/4/2004 10:13:41 PM EST
War not over: USEven as US troops pull down Saddam's statue in Baghdad, Washington warns it will not stop until it has 'finished the job'
By Irene Hoe
ASSISTANT EDITOR
IRAQI President Saddam Hussein came crashing down in the epicentre of his power yesterday as the sun set on Baghdad, and symbolically, on his 24-year rule.
With a little help from a US Marines recovery tank and some steel chain, a huge bronze statue of him was ripped off its marble pedestal in Paradise Square at dusk.
Its right hand reaching out to Jerusalem, the 6-m-tall figure had dominated the square since being inaugurated on April 28 last year, Mr Saddam's 65th birthday.
The delirious crowd pushed past the marines and leapt, cursing, on the fallen figure. Ripping off the head, they dragged it through the streets for people to spank with their shoes. Few gestures are more offensive to Arabs...
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'The straightjacket of fear has been broken in front of our eyes,' said BBC correspondent Paul Wood.
Nowhere was proof more evident than in Saddam City, a north-eastern suburb of poor Shi'ite Iraqis.
There, TV cameras showed a white-haired man gleefully and repeatedly slapping his sandal on a ripped poster of Mr Saddam. A day earlier, this extreme insult would have brought certain death...