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TV that will change the world: The greatest show on Earth!

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TV that will change the world: The greatest show on Earth!

: What a wonderful show we are watching this morning: Iraqis putting a noose around the neck of a steel Saddam in the heart of Baghdad and piling on a U.S. M88 to work with our soldiers to pull down the statue of their deposed dictator. The American soldier puts up an American flag, then the Iraqi flag. The people cheer. The people are happy. The people are free.

This is spectacular TV: the war movie with the happy ending, live, from the front.

But this is more than entertainment.

This is TV that will change the world.

I’m watching these scenes on FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS.

But I’m also watching this on Al-Jazeera.

The Arab world is watching. They’re watching what it is like to be freed from a dictator. They are watching Americans as liberators. They hear the cheers.

They are jealous. Bet on it: They are jealous.

They will want their freedom, too.

Just as they watched the Berlin Wall fall in Moscow and that killed communism, so is there a chance — a far better chance today — that we are seeing the birth of a new Arab world.

The Arab world is seeing that it is possible to be freed. They are seeing that America helped do that.

They are also watching this is France and Germany and Russia and Canada. They should be embarrassed there. They are seeing a people freed but they did not help. They did not back the winners. They did not stand on the right side.

The statue just fell. Saddam just fell.

The people are cheering.

The world is watching. The world is changing.

: I am watching a German simultaneous translation of what’s shown on al-Jazeera.

I hear an expert say that “they are making history” and that this is a “new Iraq” and that the people are “happy.”

I see an American soldier being interviewed by an al-Jazeera reporter. “Welcome to Iraq,” he says, in English, translated into Arabic, translated into German, translated back into English, published to the world here.

Welcome to the new Iraq.

21 responses to “TV that will change the world: The greatest show on Earth!”

  1. Aaron Bailey Avatar
    Aaron Bailey

    And notice how the statue of Saddam is hollow. How appropriate.

  2. A Avatar
    A

    Two intense images from this morning:
    A young Iraqi man, standing on top of that tank tha tjust toppled Saddam, waving an American flag.
    And a US reporter, in Nortern Iraq, being handed a mock-up of a new currency — with the picture of Saddam being replaced by George Bush.
    Whatever your politics are, is there anything better than the images of freedom.
    God bless the Coalition troops.

  3. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    Yeah, thank God the US continues to police the world. Without the US being police of the world, how else would we make the rest of the world JUST LIKE US?

  4. Theresa Avatar
    Theresa

    Joe
    If the “world” would act like adults and not like petulant, out of control, high on sugar children perhaps there wouldn’t be a need for other countries of the “world” to be put in the position of having to be POLICE of the “world”. Regardless of your feelings about the US, we rock!!!!! God Bless America, our troops, and Mr. Bush.

  5. kkl Avatar
    kkl

    I’m so happy for the Iraqi people right now. Yes, headaches will come tomorrow, but it sure feels good to just stop and savor the moment.
    I hope the families who lost loved ones fighting this war can take some small comfort in knowing that their loss was not in vain. Cliche, I know, but heartfelt nonetheless.

  6. kris Avatar
    kris

    yeah, great show. thanks a lot. who’s next? syria? iran? north korea? cuba? libya? france? germany? canada? russia? turkey? austria?

  7. Pithpott Avatar
    Pithpott

    All that’s missing now is some melancholy music, such as from the final scenes of the movie
    “Grapes of Wraths”.
    Just wait until the ungrateful little looting fukkers start picking off our peace-keepers one by one, because we didn’t give them tons of free water/food/money quickly enough.
    Oh wait a minute? What’s that we hear? Saddam’s head hasn’t hit the floor yet and the proposed puppet leader has already started his whining.
    Oh dearry me, it seems the problem is we haven’t sent our civilian engineers in amongst the many chicken-shit snipers to turn his electricity back on yet.
    Ok, liberation complete, let’s leave this permanently undemocratizable place to the French, and point our phenominal freedom-fighters toward the next region of insanity. Syria.
    God bless,etc,etc..

  8. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    No, Theresa, not REGARDLESS of my feelings about the U.S. …. I love our country, too. And yes, God Bless the U.S.A., God Bless our troops. But I cannot agree with the administration who put our troops in Iraq. No, Bush has no right to be police of the world. His cavalier attitude is what’s going to breed even more terrorism if he continues on the “with us, or against us” illogical philosophy he’s taken. Go ahead and watch CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest of the economically motivated news stations to hear exactly what they want you to hear. Follow the herd, little sheep, follow the herd.

  9. John Thacker Avatar
    John Thacker

    Joe, what a poor, shrivled, heartless man you are. Of course troubles may come tomorrow, and of course there are still dangers. But anyone whose heart does not lift from seeing the jubilation of the Iraqis at the overthrow of a hated tyrant is a cold, cold person.
    It does seem that to you that we should not have liberated the Iraqis. That the possible ill effects were worse than anything to be gained by helping a poor, suffering people. That’s fine, it’s a defendable position. But even if you think the ill outweighs the good, take some joy in the good which has been achieved, even if it is fleeting.
    With all the remarks of indifference, hatred, or condescendation towards the Iraqi people I’m hearing from the far left, I can almost believe that Buchanan got so many votes from heavily left-wing Florida counties.

  10. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    John, what a naive, misguided, ignorant, empirialist you are. Like I said, follow the herd, little calf, follow the herd.

  11. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Joe:
    It’s hard to take someone seriously who doesn’t even recognize the truth when it bites him in the ass, and can’t even spell “imperialist.” Buy a dictionary and study some history. Anyone who considers the overthrow of a brutal fascist dictatorship that tortures and gasses its own people and imprisons children is someone whose opinions are scarcely fit to be considered. The U.S. and U.K. have kicked in the gates of Hell and liberated 25 million Iraqs from a totalitarian regime. You and your ilk are on the
    wrong side of history as surely as Hilter, Stalin, and Saddam are, and your crackpot views will be utterly marginalized, as is appropriate

  12. John Thacker Avatar
    John Thacker

    What a condescending bastard to the Iraqis you are, Joe. Iraqis celebrate, and you refuse to believe them. Of course, in your poor twisted mind, Iraqis and all those other foreign people like to be tortured and imprisoned.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
    I believe that. I believe that the Iraqi people, just like us, desire and deserve Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I believe that an Iraqi government would only derive just powers from the consent of the Iraqi people, and that Saddam has been clearly shown by these demonstrations to have lacked that consent.. If that makes me a naive imperialist, then so be it. I’ll stand in good company.
    You don’t have to like the war, you don’t have to be for it. Those are reasonable, defensive positions. But certainly I have a hard time understanding how someone could “love America” and not love the sight of Iraqis celebrating liberty for the first time in ages, and the overthrow of a hated tyrant. Even if you believe that the war was unjustified, or if you hate Bush, or whatever, you can still love that sight.

  13. Kimberly Avatar
    Kimberly

    The postings of anti-US, anti-capitalist, anti-liberation trolls are only going to increase in volume (in both senses of the word) over the next few days, in direct proportion to the increase in news reports and videos demonstrating that THEY WERE WRONG to oppose this war.
    Of course Joe is going to post snitty, inaccurate, blathering personal attacks on here. What else can he do? He certainly isn’t leaping for joy like the rest of us. He doesn’t seem to be the type who can bring himself to admit he was wrong about anything. If he manages to piss off anyone here, that will be the most he can accomplish in his sorry little day, now that people with his beliefs have been shown to be inconsequential – on Arab TV, no less.

  14. BradDad Avatar
    BradDad

    Relax, everyone – Joe’s just bitter that this is working out well.
    You see, despising Bush is more important to him than anything Saddam ever did to the Iraqi people.
    For Joe, it’s “Politics uber alles”.

  15. Stephen Ogden Avatar
    Stephen Ogden

    I’m a Canadian – an Englishman actually, who took Canadian citizenship. Canadians will grow in shame over this — I’m sure the feeling is there now & will increase. The next generations of Candians will grow up in an environment of cowardice and effeminacy. I dread what this country will be in twenty years. Well, France probably.
    God save the Queen & God bless America.

  16. pdb Avatar
    pdb

    At the risk of piling on, beating a dead horse, &c…
    Joe and his ilk have managed to swallow whole the dyspeptic brew of self-delusion that facilitates moral conflation of a despised (to them, anyway) elected leader and a socialist tyrant who murders his own people by the thousands.
    Only in bizarro world can one equate the two with any degree of credulity.
    Frankly, this is the sort of war the left of 50 years ago would have been chomping at the bit for: a war of liberation from a brutal dictator has FDR’s initials all over it.
    Too bad his intellectual progeny have lost their way.

  17. af Avatar
    af

    Per the first post, I thought the best image was the Iraqi on the American tank waving the (pre-1993) Iraqi flag. Is there a historical precedent for a vanquishing power allowing the flag of the country it has taken to fly from its own military hardware? Is there a more magnanimous gesture? A more thundering affirmation of our noble, irenic intent?

  18. S Meyer Avatar
    S Meyer

    Among the many great images – several Iraqis holding a banner exhorting the human shields to leave the country, proclaiming them “wankers”.

  19. John Irving Avatar
    John Irving

    joe and his ilk have followed the other sheep of the left for so long they don’t even recognize they are sheep.
    joe, the United States has proven that we are the wolves, and our chosen prey are cruel dictators and repressive regimes, the favorites of the left. Who is next, we are asked? Who indeed.

  20. John "Akatsukami" Braue Avatar
    John “Akatsukami” Braue

    Always remember, joe: this was Not In Your Name.
    You had nothing to do with it. You opposed it at every step of the way, with every fiber of your being.
    When, years from now, an Iraqi tourist in New York says to you, “On behalf of all Iraqis, I want to thank you for our freedom”, you must look him in the eye and say:
    “Don’t thank me. I didn’t want you to be free. Your liberation was Not In My Name.”

  21. margin Avatar
    margin

    I love the people who whine about America invading some poor innocent country next. Some German said this to me, and that kind of sums up that mindset perfectly.
    My grandmere was in Paris for the liberation, and the way she described that was the way Baghdad looked today. Vive la liberte!