http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1853588.phpRumsfeld painting proves popular at Iraqi art show
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.
The painting, expected to be the show’s main attraction, and the rest of the exhibit illustrate the simmering anger of Iraqis with the United States as the country continues to endure violence, sectarian tensions and crime three years after Saddam Hussein’s ouster.
Muhsin’s Rumsfeld painting is not the first artistic expression by Iraqis of the perceived injustices by the United States in their country, but it’s the first to depict a top member of the Bush administration. After President Bush, most Iraqis see Rumsfeld as the man behind the invasion of their oil-rich country and the chief architect of U.S. military actions in Iraq.
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