[Spruce]

[BenLurkin]

>It figures to be a rough night in Bagdad.
> Tomorrow they can start setting up an Iraqi police force.
> Maybe use that Division that declined to fight us in the south.
> IIRC their commander defected early on.

[mrfixit514]

Statue just pulled down by armored vehicle! Iraqis dancing on the statue of Saddam! Praise be to God for the blessings he has bestowed on the U.S. and for liberating the Iraqi people!

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[Redpower]

Funny, they keep talking about the Iraqi people, but all I see are men.

[gridlock]

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[nina0113]

got a link to this? I want to forward it

[Beck_isright]

Can you imagine, next year, during the re-election campaign of W, a Presidential visit to the new government of Iraq and the parades and celebrations. Gee, sucks to be a demorat!!!!

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[aruanan]

An Iraqi man puts flowers on the head of a US Marine in Saddam City in eastern

Are these caption writers retarded or what? The Iraqi man is at least 5 or 6 feet away from the US Marine in the photo.

[1Old Pro]

Is Garafolo crawling on broken glass yet?

[Beck_isright]

And now, for your viewing and entertainment pleasure, the view from the left from you know where. These comments are edited to be expletive free, fyi:

" Jeez this is about to be a really ugly day!!

Our regular weekly morning long sales meeting has just been temporarily postphoned so that we all can go into our boss's office to watch "history being made"! Our boss just called from his car phone so that he could let us know it is happening and to tell her it was okay to postphone so we all could go watch. I am so incredibly sick of this s***!!!

It's on every news channel

I surfed them all but faux, and it was the same shot, maybe it is staged.

WAR IS OVER... Nonsense!!!

This is shaping up to be a QUAGMIRE!

And there you go fellow FReepers, the war might be winding down in Iraq, but it will carry on at home.

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[ArrogantBustard]

"Look, the US is welcome here - but not for long, just for a while to help the next Iraqi government get going. And after that they have no right to stay here; and while they are here they must see us as human beings and not as barrels of oil."

That's the plan, buddy. And if you can put together a government that doesn't support international terrorists, we won't have to come back.

[Question_Assumptions]

But presuming his era had ended, a white-haired man in the inner city took a poster of Saddam and beat it with his shoe - a traditional insult. Others gathered to spit on or kick the portrait.

One channel (MSNBC or Fox) briefly showed even a better shot than that. An older man got the portrait down about waist level, thrusted his pelvis at the portrait of Saddam as if he wanted Saddam to do a Lewinski on him, and then turned and smiled at the camera. Shown only briefly and I suspect never again...

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[cyncooper]

Ping

[nutmeg]

If you missed the historic toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad, be sure to look for the re-plays tonight!

The statue toppled at about 10:55AM EDT... I did a quick check: FNC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC and CBS radio were all covering it LIVE.

As I type this... Simon Marks of Fox News reporting that these scenes of celebration are playing nonstop on Al Jazeera TV throughout the Arab world. He says the jubilant images of the Iraqi people - some waving the Stars & Stripes - will certainly be stunning to Arabs around the world!

British commander (?) Al Lockwood at CentCom saying he was a "doubting Thomas" at first, but he now believes this military campaign will go down in history as one of the most brilliant in the history of the world.

Brett Baier, Fox News, at the Pentagon... The mood is ecstatic.. but there are still fights to come. Says Rummy will probably impart a tone of caution... Gen Myers: "People are rejoicing... the Iraqi people are now liberated."

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[Dead Dog]

"many of them wearing the soccer shirts of leading Western clubs such as Manchester United"

OK, they need to understand that they are free now. It's time for them to start playing Football like civilized people do. Like people with quality medical care

before:

after

[js1138]

"Today Baghdad is like Berlin in 1945," an egg-seller told the Herald.

Not exactly. The Russians rolled into Berlin, losing a hundred thousand troops in the process. And they did not liberate the city.

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