The Invisible Hand

Enduring Images

9:38am: Huge crowds of Iraqis now pulling down massive Saddam statue.

9:41am: A British "peace shield" desperately punching a Marine in downtown Baghdad. Here is the last true believer. Even the Saddam thugs have given up. But not the lunatic left.

10:50am: Saddam falls! Pandemonium! Cheers! Liberation!

10:51am: Bush totally vindicated

10:52am: Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, announces that the massive statue lying on the ground in downtown Baghdad is actually a representation of one of Saddam's doubles and had toppled under it's own weight because of shoddy American construction methods. Promises that now the infidels will taste the bitter fruit of defeat.