SAWFAN, Iraq U.S. Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Saddam Hussein in a screeching pop of metal and bolts Friday, telling nervous residents of this southern Iraqi town that “Saddam is done.”
(…)
Gurfein playfully traded pats with a disabled man and turned down a dinner invitation from townspeople.
“Friend, friend,” he told them in Arabic learned in the first Gulf War.
“We stopped in Kuwait that time,” he said. “We were all ready to come up there then, and we never did.”
The townspeople seemed grateful this time.
“No Saddam Hussein!” one young man in headscarf told Gurfein. “Bush!”
As it should be.