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Outrageous! Communist NION is saying toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein is a US staged media event for the media. http://www.nion.us/ http://www.nion.us/IMAGES/saddam3.jpg They will always use a conspiracy theory to get their evil aims across - lies, deceit, agitation and propaganda.

July 3, 2004 THE NATION Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue David Zucchino The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion. As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said....

Were Iraqis jubilant the bombs stopped? Last Updated: April 9, 2003 By: Eugene Kane So this is what liberation looks like. Great statues toppled with chains and ropes. Looting in the streets as war-torn residents squared off over bare essentials. Jailhouses emptied of all prisoners. To the uninformed eye, it's hard to tell whether this is jubilation or anarchy. Even harder to know is whether the ordinary citizens of Iraq were more excited about the arrival of coalition troops or simply relieved the bombing had finally stopped. Most of the images out of Baghdad on Wednesday were presented as possibly...

It took Cpl. Edward Chin just seconds to hang an American flag on the head of Saddam Hussein's statue in central Baghdad, but it's a move that's likely to be debated for years to come. The mood of Iraqi civilians was briefly muted in Baghdad Wednesday as Chin climbed up and covered Saddam's face with an American flag. The crowd's loud cheers faded, and in less than a minute the Stars and Stripes was removed from the massive statue and replaced with Iraq's black, white and red flag. Chin's move touched a sensitive chord among Arabs and irritated U.S. military...