Get your new Iraqi flag while it's still HOT!!!

[underpants]

Iraqis burn a homemade flag with the design of their country's new flag in the besieged city of Falluja, April 27, 2004. U.N. senior adviser Lakhdar Brahimi warned Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-led administration that an armed confrontation with insurgents in Falluja would lead to major bloodshed and long-lasting consequences. (Akram Saleh/Reuters)


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[arcane1]

1. get Poppy on the phone, they need an anti-burning amendment

asap!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. That predictably didn't take long

[Jacobin]

3. Gotta say, I like the Iraqi's pluck

I don't think I would like an invader of this country designing my "new" flag either.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Riverbend: It might as well say "Made in America"

I also heard today that the Puppets are changing the flag. It looks nothing like the old one and at first I was angry and upset, but then I realized that it wouldn't make a difference. The Puppets are illegitimate, hence their constitution is null and void and their flag is theirs alone. It is as representative of Iraq as they are- it might as well have "Made in America" stitched along the inside seam. It can be their flag and every time we see it, we'll see Chalabi et al. against its pale white background.

My email buddy and fellow Iraqi S.A. in America said it best in her email, "I am sure we are all terribly excited about the extreme significance of the adoption by the completely illegitimate Iraq Puppet Council of a new national piece of garishly colored cloth. Of course the design of the new national rag was approved by the always tastefully dressed self-declared counter terrorism expert viceroy of Iraq, Paul Bremer, who is well known for wearing expensive hand-stitched combat boots with thousand dollar custom tailored suits and silk designer ties.

The next big piece of news will be the new pledge of allegiance to said national rag, and the empire for which it stands. The American author of said pledge has yet to be announced."

For the coming national anthem, may I suggest Chalabi, Allawi, Hakeem and Talbani in a gaudy, Iraqi version of "Lady Marmalade"?



http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

[moof]

5. Who were the dimwits in charge of the design ?

Unless yellow has a way different meaning in the mideast what dufus decided to represent the Kurds with a yellow strip ??!!

Good job Bremer what happened to representing one of the other people's with the sole of a shoe?

[underpants]

6. I was wondering about that myself. It might have a different meaning

I don't know.

I thought the yellow stripe was for all the chickenhawks who created this war and the "C" stood for "Cronyism" but that's just me.

[Love Bug]

7. Geez -- everyone's a critic!