[sauropod]

I just love that AP spin!

[TheConservator]

Assimilating immigrant in the best tradition of the American melting pot bump!

[BunnySlippers]

There is too much flak for placing the US flag on the statue. Our guys have been out in that desert, fighting, dying and getting wounded. They are Americans. It was a natural act.

[BunnySlippers]

Chin and his family are ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, formerly Burma. They moved to the U.S. when Chin was 1 week old and live in Brooklyn. Chin joined the Marines in 1999 and is stationed at the Marine Corps Air/Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

In New York, Chin's family - who hadn't seen him since Christmas - watched the events unfold on television.

"I thought, 'Oh, my son, you are making history, you are part of the Iraqis' liberation,"' said his father, Stanley Chin.

Yes, good!

[LilRhody]

Sounds like the Chin's "get it".

Representing America in the best way possible

Wish the liberal media would "get it"

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[3AngelaD]

Cpl. Chin's flag deployment was the moment I got up from my desk and danced around my office, to the consternation of many who were in the immediate vicinity and heard me screaming, "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

[Grig]

The CNN guy who was there said soon after the US flag was taken down it happened that 'there were no boos but not many cheers either'. So there were no boos at all, BUT THERE WERE SOME CHEERS. Of course, two minutes later it was 'no boos and no cheers' I have it on video and he said it at 6:46pm Baghdad time.

[Kevin Curry]

If this had been a flag that had been flown over the Pentagon on 9/11 (e.g., in the same manner as Congress's flag-to-constituents program) I would have expected Sgt Chin to have highlighted that fact in this interview. It's probably urban legend.

Doesn't matter. This Marine did nothing wring and he deserves no censure. He fought and place his life on the line to help liberate the Iraqis which is far, far more than Chirac, Schroeder, Putin, or ANY of his mad-dog salivating critics did.

[Lady Jag]

I guess some media think that only Iraquis are allowed to display the American flag?

[MinuteGal]

I never thought I'd live to see the day when our boys hoisting the American Flag after a major victory would become the subjects of approbium. They should get medals for this act!

If they had raised the sissy-blue UN flag first, the despicable media would have been dancing in the streets.

Leni

[hripka]

[5by5]

The media interpretation is that of the US imperialism. But I suspect that the Iraqi people might be a bit relieved to see it there. Afterall, the flag shows we're invested in the outcome, and maybe we won't just disappear again.

Besides, the idea of a massive army, the most powerful force the world has ever seen, overrunning Iraq without showing any colors is just eerie.

A balancing act certainly, but I think we're went just far enough.

[wimpycat]

"I thought, 'Oh, my son, you are making history, you are part of the Iraqis' liberation,"' said his father, Stanley Chin.

This gives me a lump in the throat.

[Ebony-Patriot]

As always, it's a great day to be an AMERICAN!

[XRdsRev]

I do understand the diplomatic unease as regards the flag incident but as others have said before me, the Muslim world largely looked upon our Liberation of Iraq as an occupation already. I doubt the flag incident changed many minds. If anything it just reinforced some pre-conceived notions in the Arab world..no great loss as far as I am concerned.

The US Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force & Coast Guard by their valorous service, earned the right to see that flag put up.

The symbolism of that flag stifling a tyrant, combined with its history of being a September 11th Pentagon flag..sends a powerful message to America's enemies whether they are dictators or terrorists..........September 11th may have knocked us down, but it didn't knock us out ! Tyrannies & Terrorist Regimes Beware, the United States and Freedom are on the March !

[laurav]

If this young man's family came from Burma, he no doubt grew up with stories of what it is like to live under a dictatorship. More than all the commentators, he knows what the Iraqis have experienced. And that's why he put up the American flag. It stands for a lot more than just this country as a geopolitical entity. The American flag stands for the human desire for freedom that sees these statues fall.

[wrbones]

The U.S. Flag went up over Saddam's face, "We've liberated Iraq." The Iraqi flag goes up next. "It's your country, now."

How friggin' hard is that to understand?

I get goosebumps everytime I see that picture.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Corporal Edward Chin, United States Marine Corps