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4.09.2003
V-I DAY
Well, unless you're living in a bunker, you've seen it: Hundreds of Iraqi's surrounding Firdos Square, taking individual shots with a sledge hammer at the base of a giant statue of Saddam. You've seen the Marine tank come over to help, first covering the face of Saddam with a U.S. flag and then replacing that with Iraq's pre-Saddam national flag. You saw Saddam's statue with chains around it's neck, then pulled from the base by the Marine tank. Then you saw the fallen statue covered with cheering Iraqi's. You saw the head of the statue being dragged through the streets, Iraqi's riding their former leader's head. You saw Iraqi's taking off their shoes and throwing them at the fallen statue, one of the greatest insults in Arab culture.
Congratulations to the people of Iraq. Congratulations to the U.S. and British men and women who have had the courage to make this day possible.
What you haven't seen is infighting between all the Shiites, Suni's and Kurds in the city, as old scores suddenly feel an urgent need to be settled. You haven't seen civil war break out sporadically. You haven't seen the struggle to feed and provide medical aide to a war torn country. You haven't seen the long hard road to peace, but you will. Let's not win the war and lose the peace. Whatever feelings you have had about this war, I think we can all rally around the task ahead.
What a day.
Footnote: We still don't know if Saddam is alive or dead. Al-Jazeera is claiming that Saddam may be seeking refuge in the Russian Embassy in Baghdad. Who knows what the truth is, but I post it here because it hasn't shown up in any of the U.S. coverage. Needless to say, Saddam's power has vanished.
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