Christopher Dickey?

‘We Will Turn Bush Into a Dog’
The Americans badly miscalculated by believing that the Iraqis would welcome them as liberators

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They're replaying video from scenes earlier on the CBS bagcam. Big sadaam portrait to be burned...

April 9, 2003 -- Iraqi Liberation Day

Event and Link Collection : April 9, 2003

Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Children held as hostages released from Iraq jails <-- April 8 Link
Two Special Ops rescued near Baghdad (Reuters 4:15 AM) <-- Link
Iraqis celebrate their liberation in the streets (AP 6:38 AM) <-- Link
Iraqis celebrate their liberation in the streets (Reuters 6:30 AM) <-- Link
Tanks reach center city Baghdad (Reuters 7:37 AM) <-- Link
Pictures of "The" statue is coming down <-- Link
One media self-obsession fades (being in the line of fire)
Only Iraqi resistance comes from near Palestine Hotel <-- Link
The only shooting in the city center was from Iraqi paramilitaries firing sporadically at U.S. forces across the river. The firing came from around the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, but the U.S. military did not return fire.
Iraqi people kick-out Lebanese and Syrian volunteer mercenaries (Reuters 7:30 AM) <-- Link
Liberal admission that they were wrong about Iraq mission will NOT be forthcoming, time to change the subject
The quagmire was three weeks in duration
The Iraqis -are- cheering in the streets
We did not suffer massive casualties
Civilian population did not suffer massive casualties
No mass exodus of refugees
No massive retaliation on US soil (the liberals will blame the next one on Bush, for liberating Iraq and thereby provoking the terrorists)
US may lower threat level to yellow (Wash Post> <-- Link
The Beeb's Iraq War Summary - updated regularly <-- Link
At CENTCOM presser, Fox News asks first question about POW's held near Rasheed Airfield (after a bunch of selfish reporters ask about keeping reporters safe in a battle zone)
4 ID slated for Tikrit (NY Post 7:59 AM) <-- Link
Marines find torture chamber in Nassiriya (Reuters 11:30 AM) <-- Link

Good Reads

New York Times says Bush is just dumb-lucky (NYT 6:47 AM)
James Doran: Mourning comes to a town called Comfort <-- Read This