The other, which I supported, was aspirational but ultimately impossible: trying to replace Saddam Hussein with a multisectarian ... who pulled down Saddam’s statue in Baghdad, not Iraqis ...
A truck pulls the head of the toppled statue of late Syrian president Hafez ... a violent purge of the kind that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, when hundreds were killed ...
The masses celebrating freedom signifies nothing beyond the joy of tasting momentary escape from decades of tyranny Who can forget the joyful crowds in Baghdad tearing down the statue of Saddam ...
Syrians topple a statue of Assad’s father Hafez al-Assad ... regime soldiers raised comparisons with the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Offers of amnesty from the Western invading armies ...