Iraqis TOPPLE LARGE statue of Saddam- Live Thread

4/09/03

[Steve_Seattle]

Baghdad Bob might have a future as an announcer for the World Wrestling Federation.

[apackof2]

of a Saddam statue to stand next to Lenin in Freemont District of Seattle?

this is the 2nd time I have seen this posted about a statue of Lenin in Seattle
Is this for real?
How in the h*** did that happen???

[TheTopRead]

What a historic day. Praise God and may He look out for our troops in the difficult days ahead. Freedom is such a powerful force and it was such a thrill to see the good Iraqi people get their first taste of it.

America has once again shown the world that we are the beacon for freedom and its only hope of ridding it of tyrants.

North Korea, Iran, Syria, and France are on notice!

[Liberal Classic]

Whoah! Rounds fired; crowd scattering!

I was worried about that happening. I feared a sniper might take advantage of the situation.

[Steve_Seattle]

I don't remember how the Lenin statue was acquired, but it's been there for years in the Fremont neighborhood. It's consisered cool and "campy" by the city's lefties.

[Guillermo]

Over there (DU), they're saying "fake pictures, crowd is paid to do these things, US right wing media not showing pictures of them protesting us" ad nauseum.

[Steve_Seattle]

PS - I believe the Lenin statue is on private property - it is not an official city statue.

[dixierose]

Great idea!!! I only live about 15 miles from the main gate of Ft. Stewart; I'd love to see that!!

[BCrago66]

Besides being full of crap ideologically and morally, the DUers gravest offence is building a site that is so damn difficult to negotiate.

Can't they even express thier hatred more competently?

[apackof2]

but it's been there for years in the Fremont neighborhood

Might be time for a "midnight demolition mission" :>)

[dancusa]

CNN: dour voices of sadness as the statue was being tied up.Outrage of PC=ness as the Stars and Stripes were waved(on FOX you could hear rousing cheers in the background).On CNN total outrage and shock.As the statue was hanging,FOX
showed shoes being thrown and commented on the meaning of this.CNN in total sadness and silence.Finally when the statue came down and the crowd went nuts,CNN finally made some comments of the crowds reaction.BBC did not cover this,an earthquake in India was bigger news.

[Uncle Jaque]

Re the Hymn; I just clipped it off of the MUDCAT Digital Tradition Data Base - a great resource by the way. The attribution is a direct cut and paste, although we could check it out.

I collect, study, and perform music of the 19th Century with emphasis on Hymns, Gospel, Spiritual, Civil War, and Sea Chanteys. Send me a PM if you are looking for anything - I can also turn you on to some great links to online early music collections. There is some wonderful stuff mouldering away in those archives!

Also play gut-strung parlor guitar and Minstrel banjo, Irish tin-whistle.

I'll post a Civil War version of "Babylon" later - warning - not very "PC at all!

[Uncle Jaque]

Re: "Baghdad Bob might have a future as an announcer for the World Wrestling Federation."

Yes! And let's get "Bluto" in the black undershirt with the sledgehammer in the ring, too!

"In this corner; Baghdad Bluto, the HAMMER of Free Iraq!"

Sheeze, guys; I might have to start watching wrestling, too!
It might be too much fun!

[dancusa]

Baghdad Bob:This a propaganda film shot in Dearborn,Michigan.The American dogs are being thrown back at the Kuwait border by the brave Susan Sarandon Division!

[AnAmericanMother]

Hey . . . I even know all the words to "Lorena"! :-D

I wrote my thesis on the Civil War . . . and I love the music of that period. I sing Sacred Harp as well as popular late 19th c music, play the piano, harpsichord, guitar, Irish lap harp, and pennywhistle (as well as the bagpipes, but not in the house!)

I'd love some of the links to Civil War songs (I have the Paul Glass "Singing Soldiers" book, Sandburg's "American Songbag", and Lomax's big book). FREEPmail me any time.

Babylon is fallen indeed! But hopefully it WILL rise again under a new government of free men.

[finnman69]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872190/posts
Any want to help me break some glass?
Foxnews

Posted on 03/22/2003 10:23 AM EST by JohnRam

Here is part of an interveiw Bill O'Reilly had with Buffoon Janeane Garafalo. Let's keep her at her Word.

BILL O'REILLY: Do you think that George W. Bush is more of a danger to this world than Saddam?

GARAFALO: I would say he is a danger in a different way, and I'll tell you why.

BILL O'REILLY: More or less than Saddam?

GARAFALO: Equal. In a different way. Wait a minute, and let me say it. I would say [that] there needs to be some accountability for the idea that we might not be where we are right now if some different choices had been made in the wake of 9-11. I would say the with-us-or-against-us rhetoric was not helpful. The Axis of Evil speech was not helpful, and this huge ramping up of war, and this go-it-alone attitude has not been helpful. Now, do I think [Bush is] a crazy, despotic ruler like Saddam Hussein who would pour acid on his own people? Absolutely not.

O'REILLY: OK. Now, I respect your opinion. I think you're wrong, but just the fact that you equate on a moral level, Saddam with George W. Bush…

GARAFALO: I'm not equating on a moral level.

O'REILLY: Yeah, I just asked you a flat out question, Janeane. Who's a bigger threat to the world? And you said, they're equal.

GARAFALO: In a different way.

O'REILLY: When you, when you say that, people out there…they're gonna think you're a loon.

GARAFALO: They're certainly entitled to...

O'REILLY: If you are wrong… and if the United States — and they will, this is going to happen — goes in, liberates Iraq [with] people in the street, American flags, hugging our soldiers… you gonna apologize to George W. Bush?

GARAFALO: I would be so willing to say, "I'm sorry". I hope to God that I can be made a buffoon of, that people will say, "You were wrong. You were a fatalist". And I will go to the White House on my knees on cut glass and say, "Hey, you and Thomas Friedman were right… I shouldn't have doubted you"…

O'REILLY: Nobody will call you a buffoon because I will protect you.

GARAFALO: Thank you, sir.

[Uncle Jaque]

Late last night, when the chickens went to bed;
The People of Baghdad, they ride on Sadddamn's head!
Old "Baghdad Bob", he licked his ear and said;
"IT'S GONNA BE A HOT TIME...
IN THE OLD TOWN...
TO-NIGHT!"

Taaa-raaah-raaaah...

[finnman69]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/888116/posts

Ritter: US will lose war against Iraq

Former UN weapons inspector says US does not have military means to take over Baghdad, defeat inevitable.

LISBON - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said.

"The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening.


"We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said.

[AnAmericanMother]

How can we hold her to it? I'm willing to do whatever I can to help . . . I'll even provide the broken glass (got some old fruit juice bottles and Mason jars around here somewhere!)

[finnman69]

Iraqi civilians cheer the arrival of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment in downtown Bagdad , Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

Email this slideshow An Iraqi man throws stones at a statue of Iraq (news - web sites)'s President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) as it falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foot (six metre) high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armoured recovery vehicle. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A statue of Iraq (news - web sites)'s President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foot (six metre) high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armoured recovery vehicle. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Iraqi civilians rush to the torn down statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) to kick it in downtown Bagdad, Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)