The Toppling: How the Media Created the Iconic Fall of Saddam's Statue

Peter Maass, in collaboration with ProPublica and The New Yorker, reveals the exact story behind the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein at Firdos Square in Baghdad on April 9, 2003. His reporting shows how the American media exaggerated the importance and context of the toppling, conveying an erroneous sense of victory in a war that was just beginning.

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[Keith Johnson]

Good idea condensing the 10pg article into this 3 min video ... it'll reach alot more people this way. 

[Aerensiniac]

Is this featured by the same country that is now using double tapping as a valid military strategy and random drone strikes against civilians?

I guess there are bigger hypocrites than the catholic church.

[SpenserRoger]

THIS video is propaganda.

[abighairywoman]

just spent like 20 minutes reading the article (pretty long), now i see this lol. The reason it was poor reporting and highly overhyped was because it made the u.s. public think it woukd all be over soon just like it was in 1991....it distracted people from the reality of what was actually happening. one news station had a reporter embedded with troops in an intense battle whe this was happening hut neglected to show that and played this instead

[StalkinSquirrel]

The catholic Church are not hipocrites...it means actor The body of Christ is not amused the problem with todays age is sin and leftism....

[StalkinSquirrel]

there were millions that yep i mean that staged a demonstration to keep the US from pulling out of Iraq.....the NWO just muddles things....and the media didnt try to make it look like 1 million people came out to pull a statue down....

[dwayne johnson]

did they just teabag his tatue? lol

[REVIOutsourcing]

What is in Firdos Square now?

what statue?



[Downfurlife]

Umm? It was a lie... Nothing more nothing less. Google it more... It was staged by the military at best, Some say it was a psyop. Google this article: White House ends practice of re-enacting events for photos came out today.

[cowboytim98]

This event was completely blown out of proportion as well as removed from its context. The media is famous for doing that. This was a very small, minor (albeit, yes, symbolic) happening. Even as I watched it live -- obviously, a year before Iraq descended into civil war -- I was thinking, "so, uh, they pulled down a statue. Okay... what next?" I took it purely at face value -- a statue was pulled down in front of a small crowd. Nothing more.