Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Those scenes of jubilant Shiites and Sunnis on the streets of Baghdad are now engraved on the minds of millions all over the world. Once again, television demonstrated its extraordinary power. One can only speculate about the impact those images of Iraqis cheering a toppling tyrant will have on Arab leaders and the so-called "Arab street". Important is that the pictures were screened across the Arab world on Arab TV services such as Al Jazeera.

Today's scenes were incredibly moving. After so much suffering, the oppressed can finally express what they feel.

But how do those who said this was a war against the Iraqi people feel? Those mendacious journalists who fomented hatred of the USA and Britain? Those opportunistic politicians, who promised us a Middle East in uproar, millions of fleeing refugees and burning oil wells? Those masses of arrogant anti-war demonstrators who never once expressed sympathy for the suffering of the Iraqis? How are they coping with their consciences now?