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To: kattracks
See post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889517/posts

The U.S. Flag put over Saddam statue head was from the Pentagon September 11 2001!

London Times |Victory in the 21-day war |By Stephen Farrell in Baghdad

“YANKEE bastard,” yelled the young British peacenik at the first American tank to roll up to the Palestine Hotel. “Go home.” She picked a man who had waited for 576 days to give his answer. Marine First Lieutenant Tim McLaughlin leant from the turret of his Abrams tank — nickamed “Satan’s Right Hand” — and screamed back: “I was at the Pentagon September 11. My co-workers died. I don’t give a f***.”

Lieutenant McLaughlin had with him a Stars and Stripes that he had been given at the Pentagon that fateful day. In Baghdad’s Paradise Square, he handed the flag to Corporal Edward Chin, who climbed a giant statue of Saddam and draped it over the deposed dictator’s head.

34 posted on 04/09/2003 10:46:33 PM PDT by tophat9000
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To: tophat9000
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I thought it was perfectly obvious that he was symbolically rubbing Saddam's nose in the American flag ....

Now that you relate this Pentagon flag background, I'm even more convinced of it.

47 posted on 04/09/2003 11:14:31 PM PDT by RightField (the older you get ..... the older "old" is ......)
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