O'Reilly falsely claimed he warned of the dangers of Iraqi looting "on the night that Saddam's statue fell"

SUMMARY: On his radio show, Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that, "on the night" Saddam Hussein's "statue fell" in Baghdad at the beginning of the war in Iraq, he publicly criticized the Bush administration for not having a postwar reconstruction plan for Iraq. In fact, on that night's edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly made no mention of looting or the difficulty of reconstructing Iraq, though he did ask a guest to comment on plans to "stabilize Baghdad."

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