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Iraqis use their shoes to hit the remains of a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Bagdhad, Iraq Wednesday April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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An Iraqi man uses his shoe to smash a hole in the face of a Saddam Hussein mural in Basra Southern Iraq, April 7 2003. Looting and the destruction of Saddam murals is rife in the city after Iraqi soldiers left the city and Britiash Royal Marines and the 7th Armoured Brigade walked in unopposed Sunday. (AP Photo/Jon Mills, Western Daily Press, Pool)