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kurds dancing in square.Arabs likes saddam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.243.223.254 ( talk) 17:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
It would be instructive to watch the entire CNN newsfeed. I was watching live on the night and it most definitely was not staged. It began with telephoto video from whatever hotel the journalists were holed up in, of a few Iraqis attempting to pull the thing down. Sledgehammers and ropes. It went on for some time, a growing crowd, doing their best but not getting too far.
After a while an American convoy went past and I guess it seemed like a good idea to whoever was in charge to help the locals. The Yanks made a few attempts and it went on for hours of boredom before they finally managed to bring it down.
This was the early hours of the American occupation of Baghdad. It was pretty chaotic and staging an event like this would have needed a lot more planning. And there would have been cameras on site, rather than filming grainy footage from a kilometre away.
For what purpose? Just occupying the city was enough - there was no resistance and the Americans didn't need to prove anything or underscore the fact that they'd wiped the floor with SH. It'd be like the Russians invading the USA, and thinking that having the CNN report Russian tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue wouldn't be convincing, so they'd stage something really really big.
Invading the enemy and occupying their capital city is pretty big. This goes down for stupidity with claims that the moon landing was faked or Dolly Parton wasn't a real woman. -- Pete ( talk) 05:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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"Firdos Square statue destruction" is one of those compound nouns that we occasionally use in English, but are best avoided. I think it's a clumsy way of saying "Destruction of the statue in Firdos Square." 173.174.85.204 ( talk) 14:08, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Eric
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kurds dancing in square.Arabs likes saddam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.243.223.254 ( talk) 17:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
It would be instructive to watch the entire CNN newsfeed. I was watching live on the night and it most definitely was not staged. It began with telephoto video from whatever hotel the journalists were holed up in, of a few Iraqis attempting to pull the thing down. Sledgehammers and ropes. It went on for some time, a growing crowd, doing their best but not getting too far.
After a while an American convoy went past and I guess it seemed like a good idea to whoever was in charge to help the locals. The Yanks made a few attempts and it went on for hours of boredom before they finally managed to bring it down.
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For what purpose? Just occupying the city was enough - there was no resistance and the Americans didn't need to prove anything or underscore the fact that they'd wiped the floor with SH. It'd be like the Russians invading the USA, and thinking that having the CNN report Russian tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue wouldn't be convincing, so they'd stage something really really big.
Invading the enemy and occupying their capital city is pretty big. This goes down for stupidity with claims that the moon landing was faked or Dolly Parton wasn't a real woman. -- Pete ( talk) 05:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
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"Firdos Square statue destruction" is one of those compound nouns that we occasionally use in English, but are best avoided. I think it's a clumsy way of saying "Destruction of the statue in Firdos Square." 173.174.85.204 ( talk) 14:08, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Eric
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