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[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well that's because the toppling of the statue was US military propaganda, silly goose. It wasn't a spontaneous act of celebration by a mob of Iraqi people, but rather a few dozen that were encouraged to topple it by loudspeakers set up by the military, who also provided the equipment and means to do so.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_statue_destruction

In the afternoon of April 9, 2003, a group of Iraqi civilians began to attack the statue. One such futile attempt by sledgehammer-wielding weightlifter Kadhem Sharif Al-Jabbouri caught media attention.[4] Shortly after, an advance unit of the United States Marine Corps from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines[5] arrived at Firdos Square, secured the area, and contacted the foreign journalists who had been quartered in the Palestine Hotel at the square. After a couple of hours, the U.S. Marines toppled the statue with an M88 armored recovery vehicle.[6]

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