Iraqis refuse to fly American designed flag....

[veracity]

Love this. Bush hasn't done one thing right so far. Go design a flag for other nations. Another brilliant move...
This is from today's Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15917-2004Jun29.html

New Iraq and the Same Old Same Old

By Al Kamen
Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page A19

Former Iraq viceroy L. Paul Bremer's heels had barely scuttered across the tarmac to his plane Monday when the new Iraqi government proudly unfurled the nation's flag.


But wait a minute! That's not the flag the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council agreed on after an extensive artistic competition. Remember that snappy blue Islamic crescent on a field of pure white, with two blue stripes representing the Tigris and Euphrates and a third stripe to symbolize the country's Kurdish minority? The pale blue was just like the main color of the flag of Israel.

It was deemed a beautiful symbol of the New Iraq. But for some reason the Iraqis, probably because they aren't used to democracy, objected.

So the flags surrounding the new interim government are the same old red-and-green and-black flag of yore. They even have the "God Is Great" writing, which Saddam Hussein added after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Makes you wonder how many of Bremer's final pre-departure edicts will make it into next week.

[Fenris]

1. This line perfectly lampoons current U.S. disinformation:

But for some reason the Iraqis, probably because they aren't used to democracy, objected.

Beautiful.

[wndycty]

6. I think that line was sarcasm. . .

. . .at least I hope it was.

[rocktivity]

2. I guess I can delete this from my server now

If the Iraqi people want a new flag, they can design and select it for themselves.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Kid_A]

3. Here's a thorough analysis of the new flag.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. Wait a second

"It was deemed a beautiful symbol of the New Iraq. But for some reason the Iraqis, probably because they aren't used to democracy, objected."

Isn't what the Iraqi people are doing to a flag imposed by imperial power, the sheer essence of democracy?

Some people are just douche bags!

[JHB]

5. "But for some reason the Iraqis...objected"?

Gee, maybe because that flag has absolutely no roots in any previous symbology for Iraq or prior entities in the region?

Maybe because it so conspicuously avoids ANY pan-Arab symbology?

The day its "probably because they aren't used to democracy" is the day pigs sprout wings and fly.

[gratuitous]

7. Made a big mistake letting Bremer go on Monday

At the very least, they should have made him turn his pockets out. As it is, there's $20 billion missing and Bremer's gone, gone, gone.

And Bremer's final pre-departure edicts will last about as long as a human's dignity at Abu Ghraib.

[LittleApple81]

8. Please, people, recognize sarcasm when it pokes its smiley face!

It was deemed a beautiful symbol of the New Iraq. But for some reason the Iraqis, probably because they aren't used to democracy, objected.

THIS IS SARCASM....