British Paper: Man Who Brought Down Saddam's Statue Now Has Regrets

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NEW YORK The man who was said to be the leader of the group in Baghdad that famously toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein (with a little help from Americans) after the U.S. invasion in 2003 now voices a lot of regrets.

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Now, on the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, he says: "I really regret bringing down the statue. The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day."

The weightlifter had also been a mechanic and had felt the full weight of Saddam's regime when he was sent to Abu Ghraib prison by the Iraqi leader's son, Uday, after complaining that he had not been paid for fixing his motorcycle.

He explained: "There were lots of people from my tribe who were also put in prison or hanged. It became my dream ever since I saw them building that statue to one day topple it."

Yet he now says he would prefer to be living under Saddam than under US occupation. He said: "The devil you know better than the devil you don't. We no longer know friend from foe. The situation is becoming more dangerous. It's not getting better at all. People are poor and the prices are going higher and higher."


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003559695

[The Count]

1. Another lie not many know about...when you participate in a scam, the result

is rarely real. "Thank you, Mr Bush!"

[ClintonTyree]

2. I'm willing to bet.....

that 80% of Americans (maybe more), including many Democrats, are not aware that the "historic" toppling of Saddam's statue was a staged event, a photo-op concocted by the U.S. military as a propaganda tool. Americans are woefully ignorant of their government's actions.

Now, even the perpetrators of the propaganda operation are having regrets. :eyes: