Errrr Drapes! The last time I drove past the Angel of the North it looked as though somebody already did! :D

Perhaps a new career beckons for the US armed forces. Statue Toppling. Got a effigy that's blocking out the sun. Then call in the 14th Armoured Toppling Brigade. No statue too tall, no bust too wide. They could diversify into a bit of tree surgery as well. What with all the 90' Leyllandii trees in the UK they would be kept busy for a while. ;)

I still say they should have called in Fred Dibnah. Knock out a few rows of brick round the bottom, pack the gap with old tractor tyres then set the whole thing alight.

Can somebody come and topple the Statue of Donald Dewar in Glasgow as his £40m Holyrood effigy is now going to cost us £400m or £100 per person in Scotland. Did he mislead us about the cost or was he so incompetent that he didn't bother to have the project costed!!:mad:

332M

332M - just incompetent - but not as incompetent as his successors who have REALLY let it get out of hand. However, I thought there were around 8 million people in Scotland - so 50 quid per head?

Any other votes for statues that deserve a good toppling?

Wonder if Kim Jong Il is having his re-inforced?

Wiley....

Wishful thinking on your part.....in the scheme of things....it will be a fart in a whirlwind. As the Iraqi's learn what freedom is all about....and being secure in their homes....and not having to worry about being tortured and killed at will by an oppressive government.....that flag will be welcome. The rest of the despots in that part of the world are the ones that best worry about where that flag shows up. You just are going to have to accept as a liberal....that your impression of what is important or earth shattering doesn't amount to much to the man in the street. For craps sake Wiley....they are burning that flag in streets all over the Fundamentalist Muslim world on a daily basis.....that deal in Baghdad doesn't mean a thing. They hate us now....and nothing shy of giving them a dose of the medicine Saddam got will change it. The people that want to live in the Dark Ages are just going to have to adapt to living in a modern world...read the UN report that sets forth the reasons for the problems in the Middle East....and offer your criticism to those that are causing the problems. (Hint...Wiley...it ain't the folks from the Western Societies.....you will have to look further east for the reasons)

SASless, after reading [b]Wiley's'/b] expanded comments on the Iraqi thread on 'Jetblast', I'd be putting my money of his assessment rather than yours- what amounts to wishful thinking.

I wouldn't call anything Wiley said 'wishful thinking', Sasless, just 'telling it like it is.' The big mistake too many Americans make is to think that people in the Middle East want their countries to be like America. Nothing could be further from the truth - they (the men) are especially concerned by the 'fate' of women in Western societies.

Is this the same bearded individual, who was photographed with Chalibi , but this time was wearing an FIF uniform, prior to the statue coming down?

Or perhaps he was one of the other half dozen or so more vocal detractors of all things Saddam,performing for the cameras, who have also been photographed in FIF uniform?

Oh dear

I've no doubt there were spontaneous demonstrations, after all, Ernst Stavros Rumsfeld described it all as "High Spirits" I believe, and admonished the media for reporting looting, rape and thuggery and shootings when it was all just people celebrating....

Its certainly a 180 from the days of yore, it was the conquerers that did the looting, rape, pillage and burning,in those days, now it seems to be the conquered.
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