When they remove Tom Watson’s statue from Georgia’s Capitol grounds, it won’t be quite as spectacular as when Iraqis and American soldiers pulled down the statue of dictator Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in the spring of 2002. The symbolism, however, is comparable. The Iraqis were putting a violent past to rest, they thought, and some of the skeletons in Georgia’s shameful closet will walk across the street with Watson.
Tom Watsons mean streak maligned his political foes