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Monday, 09 April 2007

April 9, 2003
"Critter" Crittenden

... Late in the afternoon, I called up the Boston Herald to dictate the day’s story. Deputy Managing Editor James MacLaughlin told me there was big news on CNN. The Marines had just liberated Baghdad. They were in front of the Palestine Hotel, where they pulled down a statue of Saddam. Did I know anything about that?

No, I didn’t, but that was great news. Nothing against the Marines, but the Army had been here for two days before they showed up, fighting a series of pitched battles that precluded statue toppling, and we were two miles north of Firdas Square dealing with some troublesome Syrians and an idiot gunman. Who does history record as liberating Baghdad? The ones who pulled up in front of the international media’s digs at the Palestine. Some jarheads in an M88 tank hauler with a length of chain and a press gaggle.

Another RPG came screaming up obligingly up the street as I dictated my story and exploded high over the square, to make the point.

“Hear that?” I said. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on April 9, 2007 at 12:11 AM in Critter, Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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