Robert Fisk Ken Layne is right: Robert Fisk, pindoll of the hawks, can be an excellent reporter. Here's his story of the fall of Baghdad. The great Lebanese poet Kalil Gibran once wrote that he pitied the nation that welcomed its tyrants with trumpetings and dismissed them with hootings of derision. And the people of Baghdad performed this same deadly ritual yesterday, forgetting that they – or their parents – had behaved in identical fashion when the Arab Socialist Baath Party destroyed the previous dictatorship of Iraq's generals and princes.A day that began with shellfire ended with a once-oppressed people walking like giants [Independent] #
