"Men, we have got to find Saddam Hussein."
"Sir, we’ve found him, sir!"
"Excellent work. men. Lead me to him."
"Sir, it’s not exactly Saddam Hussein, sir! It’s… a statue, sir."
"…"
"Sir, it’s even bigger than a real Saddam Hussein, sir! And it’s made out of metal, sir!"
"Hmmm… you’re right. If we tied a rope around a real Saddam Hussein and pulled on it with a tank, well that would just look kind of… pathetic. Not telegenic enough. There just wouldn’t be the same amount of symbolism somehow."
"Sir, permission to search for over a thousand paperweights of Iraqi civilians to symbolically destroy, sir!"
"Permission granted, men, permission granted. The iraqi people have already given us the ‘thumbs up’. I’ll alert the press."