[lbo-talk] five years ago

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 9 04:46:16 PDT 2008


[via Mike Allen, from William Shawcross' WSJ op-ed five years ago today celebrating the "liberation" of Bagdad]

'Liberation Day! What a wonderful, magnificent, emotional occasion - one that will live in legend like the fall of the Bastille, V-E Day or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Watching the tearing down of Saddam Hussein's towering statue in Baghdad was a true Ozymandias moment. It slowly tumbled and, with perfect symbolism, just two rusty pipes were left sticking up from the boots. In the BBC's London studio an Iraqi dissident said though tears, 'April 9 is not just spring, it is for Iraqis eternal spring.' '



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