Surely, since the scene depicted above was across from a hotel full of journalists (this was before the U.S. murdered two journalists by firing a shell into the hotel), there must have been very many photos of the event.

Will those who claim that the photo here is not reperesentative of the situation when the statue was pulled down please post a photo of the square at the time showing a significantly larger crowd.

By the way, since it it is generaly agreed that Saddam was hated by millions of Iraqis, the fact that so few can be seen celebrating his downfall probably means that they have no more love for their Anglo-American "liberators" than they had for Mr. Hussein. Of course, that's hardly suprising, since they know that:

1) Saddam and his Baath predecessors were strongly supported and aided by the U.S. and Britain -- especially in suppressing the Iraqi left -- for almost three decades;

2) the U.S. killed tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts fleeing Kuwait at the end of the 1991 war -- conscripts who were in rebellion and might well have overthrown Saddam at the time;

3) the combination of the bombing of essential facilities like sewage treatment and water purification plants with a 12-year embargo that denied Iraq both the means to repair and operate such plants and the medicines that would have mitigated the effects of contaminated water killed over one million Iraqis, over half of them children under 5;

3.5) Some substantial portion of the above-mentioned deaths were caused by the massive use of "depleted" uranium weapons by the Americans in the 1991 war. The ongoing death caused by said uranium will be augmented by the perhaps larger amount of uranium used in the current invasion.

By the way, Iraqis can be pretty sure that -- under Anglo-American domination -- they won't have free health care and free higher education -- things they had before the 1991 war and subsequent embargo.