Was it normal for that video to run like an old timey silent movie (all sped up with no sound)????

I think I need to upgrade my quicktime, but it won't let me... Oh well, funny watching that all fast....

I noticed the Iraqi flag the man was holding up didn't have the words that Saddam added when he came to power.

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Thought this may interest some of you. This is a longshot of Fardus Square as the Saddam Hussein Statue was toppled.

I'm not trying to suggest that there isn't a lot of joy in Iraq right now, but that's not much of a turn-out for a city of 4 million people!

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There's something almost pathetic in watching "liberated" peoples tear down physical constructs. Yesterday, news crews had grown agitated waiting for the statue to fall because its heft made bringing it down so difficult--they had camera crews on call all day so as to capture 'the' central moment of physical and symbolic collapse. One could almost imagine American troops in their tanks thinking, "Should we just knock the friggin' thing over or let these shmoes keep trying to do it themselves?"

It's become standard practice that the ushering in of political change must accompany physical destruction of past symbols--from Bolsheviks crushing statues of the Czar, to Berliners taking hammers to the wall, to the Taliban blowing up Buddhist statues. That news crews and generals were waiting for this exact moment to take place--as though a falling statue really meant change--underscores the surrealism and artificiality of the event.

A hundred years ago, tearing down a statue might have expressed the boiling-over of frustrations and resentment: today, with news crews and iraqis mugging for the cameras while carefully orchestrated "populism" hits the airwaves, the moment of truth rings hollow.

Post-modern regime change fo' dat ass...

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Originally posted by Renegade Thought this may interest some of you. This is a longshot of Fardus Square as the Saddam Hussein Statue was toppled. I'm not trying to suggest that there isn't a lot of joy in Iraq right now, but that's not much of a turn-out for a city of 4 million people!

Very good observation Renegade. Thanks!

Its funny how the media makes it look like such a spectacular event when only a few hundred were only there.

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And this is from cnn. lol

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Originally posted by Cyrus King Very good observation Renegade. Thanks! Its funny how the media makes it look like such a spectacular event when only a few hundred were only there.

Many people left, many people could care less when bombs are fallin in random markets. MOst of the area hasnt had water or power for a while. No body in the area knows what will happen in times of conflict. SAdam could have just as easily attacked the area that those people were in. So its all risky sh^t.

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Originally posted by Renegade Thought this may interest some of you. This is a longshot of Fardus Square as the Saddam Hussein Statue was toppled. I'm not trying to suggest that there isn't a lot of joy in Iraq right now, but that's not much of a turn-out for a city of 4 million people!

yeah i would have to agree with you on that