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Originally posted by Carrie@Apr 9 2003, 04:07 PM
Well I guess we can add all of the Jordanians quoted in that article to our list of fucking idiots.
And this...
"Wednesday's television pictures of U.S. troops draping an American flag over the face of a statue of Saddam in central Baghdad before toppling it left them feeling angry and humiliated. "In their euphoria the Americans put the American flag on Saddam's statue, which is a sign of their true motives," said Hamza Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front, Jordan's largest political party."
That flag was handed to the soldier BY one of the Iraqis, who told him to put it up there. You can see it on the video. Either CNN or MSNBC interviewed one of the soldiers there shortly after the statue came down and he said that there were Iraqis saying to put it on the statue.
And these people bitching about it CHOOSE to completely ignore the fact that the Iraqi flag was ALSO put up there.
The Iraqis and the Marines worked *together* to bring that statue down, and both flags were put onto the statue before it toppled.
Why do people insist on being assholes and focusing only on 15 seconds out of a two-hour drama?? ARRRGHH.
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I was watching; and it appeared to me that the Iraqis asked the Americans for help bringing sown the statue. Also, not only did an Iraqi hand the flag up to be placed there; afterwards, one brought a pre-1980 Iraqi flag to replace it. If you want to talk symbolism, there was some 'big medicine' there...