There has been a fair amount of criticism about that young Marine who briefly put an American flag over Saddam's head before replacing it with an Iraqi flag.

Here's a CNN article about the young Marine. Earlier this morning, I saw an article saying his mother immigrated to America from Burma one week before he was born to enjoy "American freedom." She was proud that her son was helping spread American freedom to other people around the world.

An immigrant from Burma, she said the family left the country seeking "American freedom" in 1980, and she gave birth to Edward a week later.



"We like our children have a good life, good schools. We want American freedom. Now Edward bring American freedom, " she said.



Oh, and that flag... It was given to Cpl. Chin by his commander who was working in the Pentagon on 9-11.

“YANKEE bastard,” yelled the young British peacenik at the first American tank to roll up to the Palestine Hotel. “Go home.”
She picked a man who had waited for 576 days to give his answer. Marine First Lieutenant Tim McLaughlin leant from the turret of his Abrams tank — nickamed “Satan’s Right Hand” — and screamed back: “I was at the Pentagon September 11. My co-workers died. I don’t give a f***.”



Lieutenant McLaughlin had with him a Stars and Stripes that he had been given at the Pentagon that fateful day. In Baghdad’s Paradise Square, he handed the flag to Corporal Edward Chin, who climbed a giant statue of Saddam and draped it over the deposed dictator’s head.

It was there only briefly; the gesture raised hardly a cheer from the gathering crowd and a black, white and red Iraqi flag quickly replaced it as a scarf around the statue’s neck. That, too, was removed to make way for the winch that would bring down the hated figure.



Then there's this cartoon that I found amusing.