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Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue
By David Zucchino cited @ http://story.news.yahoo.com/:

It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking.

After the colonel — who was not named in the report — selected the statue as a "target of opportunity," the psychological team used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist, according to an account by a unit member.

Ultimately, a Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.

It is funny the way the Americans deny all reports at the time, then, a few months later, come forward and agree with the original reports creating a newsworthy item of "Oh My God! the truth is really what everyone else was saying at the time! We were wrong!" - is George Bush running the country? or is CNN?