[bonesmccoy]

I'm proud of the USMC... if Command does ANYTHING to harm the spirit of those guys, it would be a mistake. They fought their way up hundreds of miles, faced ongoing attack threat, barely got any sleep, had not one drop of showers, limited food/drink supplies, and the best CNN can do is parrot Reuters? How sad that none of these reports actually play the sound of cheering as the Marine puts the flag over the statue's head. God bless USMC Cpl. Chin! Here's the Reuter's caption on this photo: A U.S. Marine covers the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) with a U.S. flag in Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops briefly draped an American flag over the face of a giant statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday as they prepared to topple it in front of a crowd of Iraqis. The gesture, likely to be highly provocative in much of the Arab world where the U.S. invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) has stirred widespread anger, was quickly reversed and an Iraqi flag was tied instead to the statue's neck. Local residents had earlier scaled the 20-foot (six metre) statue and slipped a noose around its neck to drag it down. REUTERS TV

[patriciaruth]

Ditto.

[MEG33]

I said he might get chastised but they had to have that moment for posterity and the pictures of the same..Job well done!

[RasterMaster]

How many heard enormous cheering from IRAQI's when the Stars and Stripes was draped over the head of the statue? Funny that the only ones who have a problem with this are those countries OUTSIDE of Iraq.

If I were to capture this photo, it would be (message for Syria):

...coming to a dictator near you....!

[Swampmarine]

Now is exactley the right time for us to be provacative! We'll never be more ready. Bring it.

[Carolina]

I'm proud of the USMC... if Command does ANYTHING to harm the spirit of those guys, it would be a mistake. They fought their way up hundreds of miles, faced ongoing attack threat, barely got any sleep, had not one drop of showers, limited food/drink supplies, and the best CNN can do is parrot Reuters?

Sky News had a retired Admiral on doing commentary while this was going on. He said he didn't begrudge the Marines their moment of enthusiasm because after all they had put their lives on the line for the Iraqi liberation. He was bursting with pride and pleasure.