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...grisly showdown over Baghdad, we’re focusing on the destruction of artwork. But people seem to have forgotten that the fall of Baghdad could very easily have been a horrific battle. Our perfect hindsight makes it easy to criticize the Coalition for not sprinkling a tank here and there to protect important museums; after all, a counter-attack never materialized. Yet these are not realistic demands, for isolated and charged with murky rules of engagement (is it okay to machine-gun a looter?), these tanks would have been too vulnerable to justify deploying them so precariously...
...date palms and mulberry trees and bloated corpses being chewed on by dogs, to be welcomed by smiling people cheering and waving, calling "Thank you, Mr. Bush," "We very like Mr. Bush." People offered cookies and water. "I wasn't sure the war was justified until yesterday," a young tank operator said the next morning. "But seeing the people happy to see us like that, I finally understood why I was here." At least one of the babies born that day in Baghdad was named George...
...Palestine Hotel. "I want that down," he said. Another Marine pointed out the huge statue in the square. "And that," said McCoy. A Marine noted that U.S. forces were not supposed to pull down statues. "Get your 88 and pull it down," McCoy said, referring to a powerful tank-recovery vehicle. And with that, the Marines helped create the iconic moment that spread live around the world, when Saddam finally bowed before his people. His head was dragged through the streets in a noose, sparks flying, as the U.S. Commander in Chief watched it all unfold...
...tireless filing made him one of the war's best-known reporters; of a pulmonary embolism, which caused him to collapse 25 miles south of Baghdad. Hair blown by the wind and face streaked with soot, he filed many of his reports from the "Bloommobile" he designed--a tank equipped with a camera mounted on a gyroscope that allowed him to broadcast on the move. A father of three, he covered the O.J. Simpson trial and the Clinton White House before becoming co-anchor of the Weekend Today show. Doctors said the embolism was probably caused by a blood clot...
...concerned because he came out and worked,” says Tom Newell, known in his political puppet show as the character Uncle Scam. “He did something no one else was doing... Most of your balloon guys sit there with a tank of air. Perri blew up his own balloons...