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``That's what we came here to fight for. More than 500 Americans have died so those guys could organize themselves, stand up and walk out of a press conference,'' (American Viceroy Paul) Bremer said. ``The last time a press conference was held in there under Saddam Hussein, they would've had their tongue cut out, if they were lucky.''

Of course the reason why those Arab journalists walked out on yesterday's Bremer/Powell press conference was to protest the shooting deaths of two Iraqis who worked for the Dubai-based satellite television channel Al-Arabiya by American soldiers, who even after a whole year in Baghdad are still having a difficult time telling a camera from a rocket launcher.

We don't cut your tongues out, like Saddam - we just cut you down in the street with a bullet. That's freedom, baby!