Flashback to "Statue Day" --- right wing group gloats, mocks war critics

[Cocoa]

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030409_extra.asp

Special Gloat and Quote Edition:
Media's Erroneous Predictions

Though more fighting lies ahead and there are certainly still pockets of Saddam Hussein loyalists who pose a threat to our troops, the jubilant crowds filling Baghdad streets today, culminating in the toppling of a huge Hussein statue downtown, certainly undermines and contradicts much of the fearmongering and dire forecasts advanced by the media about Iraqis supporting Hussein and being willing to take up guns themselves to defend him.




this is their very first example of fearmongering by the liberal media:

"Even the optimists say if it were to go on for months, if Saddam Hussein eludes capture, then the cost to the American economy is likely to be heavy.”
-- ABC's John Cochran, World News Tonight, August 22, 2002.


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[meegbear]

1. Typical MRC crap ...

"Many Iraqis believe America's true motive is to remove Saddam Hussein from power, install a puppet government and seize Iraq's vast oil wealth. On the streets, many see Hussein's offer to allow the inspectors back as a wise, brave decision showing strength."

Glad to see that hasn't happened.

Love the accompanying picture. Too bad they couldn't find one zooming on the massive crowds.

[Sinistrous]

2. Do you remember the distance shot of the "massive crowd"

that showed it was little more than 100 people bunched up around the statue? The rest of the square was essentially empty. The statue thing was stage managed.

(I wish I knew how to post images.)