Same people who cheered toppling Saddam's statue object to toppling Confederate statues, right?

[bobbieinok]

In 1st case it 'clears the air'. In 2nd it 'destroys history'!!!

[Nitram]

1. Well, some of the same people. I cheered the toppling of Saddam's statue, too, but I would be

the first to help tear down a confederate general's statue.

[Aristus]

3. IIRC, the whole 'toppling Saddam's statue' thing was not so much about toppling the statue

as it was about staging it to look like a spontaneous 'raising the flag on Iwo Jima' moment.

It wasn't the Iraqis joyously tearing down a symbol of their oppressor; it was a bunch of U.S. Army guys in a city square devoid of Iraqi civilians. They were trying to lend support to Dick Cheney's idiotic pronunciamento that the Iraq War would be just like World War II, and the Iraqis would greet us with kisses and candy and flowers and spontaneous 'Victory in Mesopotamia Day' celebrations.

[Iggo]

2. Ayup.

[malaise]

4. Ding ding we have a winner

You can't celebrate and participate in tearing down statues overseas and not see your own citizens do the same at home.