The AP reports
Saddam Hussein's rule over the capital has ended, U.S. commanders declared Wednesday, and jubilant crowds swarmed into the streets here, dancing, looting and defacing images of the Iraqi leader. A Marine tank toppled a giant statue of Saddam in a sweeping, symbolic gesture...Go figure."I'm 49, but I never lived a single day," said Yusuf Abed Kazim, a Baghdad imam who pounded the statue's pedestal with a sledgehammer. "Only now will I start living. That Saddam Hussein is a murderer and a criminal."
Others marked the regime's dissolution more passively, picking flowers from a nearby garden and handing them to Marines.
But not every Iraqi rejoiced.
"This is the destruction of Islam," said Qassim al-Shamari, 50, a laborer wearing an Arab robe.That's okay, some Americans are also disappointed. Like Robert Scheer , for example. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 09, 2003 09:03 AM
"If Hussein could have been disarmed through global pressure and U.N. inspections, as now appears to be the case..."
Oh these people! Global pressure was not an effective option due exactly to people his ilk.
Posted by: Wallace on April 9, 2003 01:50 PM