I'd like to make a twist on a famous quote by saying that "good news is no news", especially when it come to Iraq and the mainstream media. That's why you never get to here about stories like this one about an Iraqi who previously had a hand in making staues of Saddam Hussein, now honoring the Americans who liberated his country.

I can't believe we have to find out about this on a website that confirms or denies stories that seem so unusual that it bears digging deeper to see if they're true. My bet is that this is not as unusual as it appears, but we have become accustomed to hearing "quagmire", "growing insurgency", etc.

This picture of the statue was made by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad. This artist was so grateful that the Americans liberated his country, he melted 3 of the fallen Saddam heads and made a memorial statue dedicated to the American soldiers and their fallen comrades.