FILE - This April 9, 2003 file photo shows Staff Sgt. Nick Popaditch of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, smoking a cigar while standing on top of his tank, in downtown Baghdad in front of a statue of Saddam Hussein just before his unit helped tear it down. Popaditch, 42, who was blinded in one eye by a rocket-propelled grenade to the head in Fallujah announced Tuesday Nov. 10, 2009, he is running for Congress in California's most southern district. He is seeking the Republican nomination to unseat Democrat Bob Filner.
SAN DIEGO A decorated Marine veteran famously photographed smoking a cigar after the fall of Baghdad is running for Congress in California's most southern district.







