--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [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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