Actually, the Iraqis in the square were cheering when the flag covered Saddam's face. Then, an Iraqi man produced a pre-Saddam flag and it was put up around Saddam's neck. The Marine took the Iraqi flag down before toppling the ogre. The whole thing was actually quite symbolic and up-lifting for those present.
The kneepad networks are hard at work digging for anything to denegrate the courageous achievement of OUR Soldiers. The dissers are following the talking points which instruct them to not let this get too positive for Bush & co. Of course, they end up denegrating our honorable Soldiers in the process, but they means nothing to the Kerryesque crowd.
if the AM morning news programs were really doing their job, they would not have the thread we got now.