No comparison

Hard to believe, but President Bush, speaking to troops at Fort Hood, Texas, today, actually said that the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, "will be recorded alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall as one of the great moments in the history of liberty."

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War and the failure of communism in eastern Europe.

The toppling of Saddam's statue was a made-for-television photo op. On the two-year anniversary of the event, angry Iraqi militants were demonstrating at the same location, calling for America to withdraw its troops. In Bush's remarks, he said Iraqi troops are taking over from Americans so US troops could come home, but declined to say when.

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