Comments on: Statue Talk

By: notthisgirl

notthisgirl — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:18:46 +0000

I think a soldier with child would be a great statue.

But I also think a statue of George Bush would certainly be appropriate as well. If it were not for him, there would not be a free Iraq.

Perhaps a statue of Bush & Allawi shaking hands?

By: AST

AST — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:34:19 +0000

Considering how many statues of Saddam were around Baghdad, I think there is plenty of room for all of these suggestions. Still, I believe that Bush deserves a statue, along with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer and Alawi, and those Iraqis who assumed leadership in the the new government at the risk of their lives, especially those who were assassinated.

I hope they have a national gallery with busts or paintings of all of them, together with a multimedia display in honor of all of those who contributed to the establishment of a Democratic Iraq. That will have to wait until Democratization is complete and we have brought our troops home.

Future generations of Iraqis, Syrians, Saudis, Iranians, Kuwaitis, Egyptians and the rest, I hope will learn about this date the way our children learn about July 4, 1776 and the adoption of the Constitution.

I’m so proud of all of those who have developed and carried out this policy, and I can only pray that their efforts will not be in vain.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:39:58 +0000

I saw a small bronze done of an American soldier kneeling before the gun and boots and helmet of a fallen comrade. Next to him stands a small girl, she is reaching out her hand to touch his shoulder.

A large one of those would be good.

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:02 +0000

I think our Commander in Chief would be the first to agree that the definitive symbol of freedom is the American GI. I would love to see a sculpture memoralizing both the warrior and the nation builder as the focal point of a Freedom Plaza. With perhaps George W. Bush Boulevard, Tony Blair Avenue and John Howard Street leading to it?

By: John Moore ( Useful Fools )

John Moore ( Useful Fools ) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:04:03 +0000

Having seen the hideous monument to Soviet WW-II dead in East Berlin (1966), I feel strongly that it is up to the Iraqis to do whatever they want with statues.

I could see us giving them a monument to their courage in voting, literally at the immediate and future risk of their lives, but let them decide where or if to display it, of course.

How many here would venture to the polls under those conditions? If my family had the cojones to do that, I would be in Iraq right now, helping in whatever way I could. I’m not, so we don’t!

Perhaps a bit wicked, but any pro-American statue that the Iraqis themselves choose to make (especially a George Bush one) would also provide a good area for our snipers to hang out until the insurgency is quelled, as the bad guys would have to destroy it to save face. They made a very nice one, but unfortunately for this idea, it is indoors

By: prs(TM)

prs(TM) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:55:23 +0000

A replica of the Statue of Liberty would be *great*!

Especially since the _French_ gave her to us….

Heh.

By: charlotte

charlotte — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:14:36 +0000

The Marine and Iraqi child idea is lovely! Gotta work in a G.I., too, maybe with an older Iraqi. Our troops helped purchase Iraq’s liberation with their sweat and blood, and from everything we read from their own accounts, they are genuinely moved by the plight and new hopes of the people there.

I would suggest statues of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz next to Faneuil Hall for Kennedy, Kerry and their like-minded brethren to behold, but they’d probably last less time intact than Saddam’s did after our invasion.

West Virginia could use a bronze likeness of Condaleeza Rice, where I think it might stand a chance. How about Bush in Times Square across from the old Gray Lady?

By: ahem

ahem — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:56:28 +0000

Some simple plaque commemorating the fallen forces that made it all possible. And a listing of all the countries who sent them.

By: Duke

Duke — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:28:19 +0000

A perfectly horrible idea. If a statue of a now dead U.S. soldier, a similar Brit, an Iraqi or two killed fighting the terrorists, and a live Iraqi with a ballot in his or her hand I’d be for it. But not a statue of Bush. That’s another statue of Saddam target.

By: thibaud

thibaud — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:30:53 +0000

Lady Libbetry’s a good choice. So long as she’s not forced to wear a veil.

Perhaps a better choice would be a trio of defiantly hopeful survivors of Saddam and the fascists’ onslaught. Maybe a grandpa, his widowed daughter and a child, unbowed, united, resolutely looking forward.