Rumsfeld Painting in Iraq Art Exhibit

[DoYouEverWonder]

June 7, 2006, 4:15 AM EDT

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Muayad Muhsin was both inspired and enraged by a photo of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld slumped on an airplane seat with his army boots up in front of him.

"It symbolized America's soulless might and arrogance," said Muhsin, whose similar painting of Rumsfeld will be unveiled in an exhibition opening in Baghdad on Monday.

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"Rumsfeld's boots deliver a message from America: 'We rule the world,'" Muhsin, 41, told The Associated Press in an interview. "It speaks of America's total indifference to what the rest of the world thinks."

Muhsin said he signed the painting in the middle, instead of the customary bottom corner, to avoid having it under Rumsfeld's boots.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-rumsfeld-in-art,0,3447467.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Solly Mack]

1. Bush would call Muhsin an "unsettled" Iraqi

"The Americans brought us rosy dreams but left us with nightmares, they came with a broad smile but gave us beheaded bodies and booby-trapped car."

The new disgruntled employee is the "unsettled citizen"(anywhere)that disagrees with Bush.

[donsu]

2. sending artist Muhsin much love and respect

nt

[Blaq Dem]

3. They don't have the photo of Rums shaking hands with Saddam?

America has one heck of an amnesia when it comes to this kind of truth.