[lbo-talk] rock and roll liberation

[Stephen E Philion]

The shaken nerves of the US military and civil leaders in Baghdad were 
visible yesterday on the anniversary of the day a year ago when the 
statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in Fardous Square. Instead of any 
form of celebration, the US army had sealed off the square with rolls 
of razor wire. An armoured vehicle with a loudspeaker circled the 
roundabout announcing that all demonstrations were forbidden and 
anybody coming to the square with a gun would be shot on sight.

The vehicle, as if to make sure that no Iraqi would remain uninsulted, 
then played loud rock music over its speaker outside the large mosque. 

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