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Post by antiaktiv on Apr 9, 2003 18:44:57 GMT -5
sorry...i have to.
there's something erie about seeing images of that saddam statue getting torn down. not quite as joyous as it was when communism fell.
i can't decide, i really can't.
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Post by SuicideSamurai on Apr 9, 2003 18:46:22 GMT -5
i see it as another step closer to a one world government.
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Post by WorshipYourToaster on Apr 9, 2003 18:52:40 GMT -5
I haven't seen it, only heard about it (I've been listening to NPR all day).
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Post by theory on Apr 9, 2003 18:53:40 GMT -5
I kept thinking, oh crap its gonna fall on somebody.
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Post by PatternAgainstLoser on Apr 9, 2003 19:14:14 GMT -5
That statue of Saddam made me think of the Walt Disney statue with Mickey Mouse...theyre both pointing and stuff...
They should have let the citizens tear it down if they wanted to...like the Berlin wall...
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Post by histarising on Apr 9, 2003 19:22:38 GMT -5
i hate to be insensitive, but it looked like chocolate.
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Post by Lost in the Air on Apr 10, 2003 10:36:49 GMT -5
I kept thinking, oh crap its gonna fall on somebody. Me too, and yes Anton, it is very unsettling. There's just something about it that's weird, almost like foreshadowing to something later...something really bad. |
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Post by chilibird on Apr 10, 2003 14:07:30 GMT -5
The whole thing seemed a tad unreal to me, until I called a friend for a chat and she asked me to call back later. She'd just been told her son had been killed in Basra.  The joyous tearing down of the statue didn't make anyone want to celebrate in my house. |
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Post by hysteresis on Apr 10, 2003 14:14:58 GMT -5
it's a nice, symbolic thing to tear down a statue of a dictator.. it reminds me of the Stalin statue in Budapest getting bashed in 1956 (you didn't know about that revolution, did you? USA was too busy defending its economic interests - in Panama - to bother the liberty of people elsewhere back then.. just like today).
however I get a feeling that the rest of the war, and the post-war situation, won't be a likewise triumphant orgie..
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Post by White Mosrite on Apr 10, 2003 18:05:34 GMT -5
Me too, and yes Anton, it is very unsettling. There's just something about it that's weird, almost like foreshadowing to something later...something really bad. geez i wonder  |
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The joyous tearing down of the statue didn't make anyone want to celebrate in my house.