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    • T.Chong says:

      08:02am | 09/04/10

      Lucy, why pick Logans propaganda piece ? A far more telling vid has an Australian witness calling the whole thing for what is was, a carefully staged photo -op by an invading force.
      The Wehrmacht filmed similar scenes of glorios , humble liberators been thanked by grateful locals in its occupied territories too.

    • Bertrand says:

      09:16am | 09/04/10

      Certainly, i agree with Chong.

      Saddam always one 99% of the vote in the elections which he held, and their could potentially be more than 1% of the Iraqi population in that square, so it seems obvious to me that some of the people couldn’t be pulling down that statue hoping at the same time that the Saddam regime was over.

      There is of course a possibility that some were pulling the statue down in the belief that they were making way for a new, better, statue, and were happy to donate their time to such an endeavor because they thought Saddam was such a great bloke.

      I would point out that even though the election turn out at current elections is higher than any liberal democracy in the world (which some imperialists try to use as evidence that Iraqis like the new non-dictatorial way of doing things), the turn out is still way down on the 100% turnout Saddam used to get.

    • Peregrine says:

      11:59am | 09/04/10

      Yeah I know the Kurds were just horrified to see Saddam go. Those pics must have been carefully staged too!

    • Bertrand says:

      09:24am | 09/04/10

      *won*

    • T.Chong says:

      09:40am | 09/04/10

      Saddam was an evil pricque, now doubt, and the world is better off without him.
      Just that this hardly justifies the carnage that followed.
      And sadly, the Neo Cons are using the same unsubstantiated claims, scare mongering etc about Iran.
      The US and its lackeys like nothing better than war.
      There whole economy is built upon and requires expenditure, and nothing is more costly, or beneficial to industry than war.

    • stephen says:

      12:35pm | 09/04/10

      The neo-cons aren’t nervous about Iran. America is, and this time, so’s the EU. Getting China on side for sanctions is the difficulty. How difficult it gets may dictate Am/China relationship for years, and could get quite nasty.
      The EU, being a conglomerate, is too sure of the UN. They look to the past for their ‘rules of engagement’. (This is one dis-advantage of ‘History as Culture’). It’s true that the kind of Democracy which Arab States finally incurr may be very different from that envisaged by the US and us ; the issue is really the process of that change. Sometimes force is the only thing that works

    • Dan says:

      06:38pm | 09/04/10

      Except stephen, in regards to Iran, force won’t work. The chances of 1)successfully invading Iran and 2)not suffering blowback is minimal. To go to war against Iran would be absurd. Hopefully America realises that.

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      10:36am | 10/04/10

      America realizes nothing, America just does as Israel tells it no matter the consequences for America.  Seen the background on Obama’s advisors lately?  Axelrod, Emmanuel, Summers etc.  Straight out of MOSSAD central.  Obama is a puppet, and McCain/Palin were always meant to be unelectable.

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