Today marks 19 years since “the fall of Saddam’s Statue”. A colossal statue of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was toppled by Iraqi civilians and American soldiers in Firdos Square in a highly symbolic act — and perhaps the most historic moment of the US invasion of the country. As US tanks rolled into the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, hundreds of civilians swarmed the statue and cheered as it lay on the ground, celebrating the end of Saddam Hussein’s 24-year rule. The toppling of the statue, wh