“Toppled” is a slideshow lecture comprised of a selection of approximately 400 images found on the Internet of the statues of Saddam Hussein. From these images several storylines emerge: the statues’ transformation from manifestations of Saddam’s totalitarian power into icons for the defeat of his regime, their desecration and humiliation, their expulsion from the public sphere, their appropriation into his enemies’ museums, their symbolic reinterpretation for use in anti-war protests. Also examined is the self-styled iconography created by Saddam Hussein during his regime and the manipulation of his image in the media following his downfall. Through viewing these images it also becomes apparent that even in our modern image culture the ancient mystical link between the person (Saddam) and his representation (statue) is still alive in the human psyche.