New US-imposed Iraqi flag hated by Iraqi people. Again.

[Occam Bandage]

Iraqis have flooded chat rooms on the Internet with criticism of last week's decision, which had long been demanded by the country's Kurdish minority who say the Saddam Hussein-era banner was a reminder of his brutality.

Many Iraqi Arabs disagree. They see the old flag as having little to do with Saddam, a Sunni Arab, but as one under which countless soldiers died fighting in various wars.

"It's shameful. Thousands of Iraqis lost their lives so this flag could fly.... Changing the flag ignores their sacrifice," said one Iraqi in a comment posted on an Arab chat room.

The new flag is still red, white and black, but three green stars in the center representing unity, freedom and socialism, the motto of Saddam's now outlawed Baath party, have been removed.

The phrase Allahu Akbar (God is greatest), added in green Arabic script on Saddam's orders during the 1991 Gulf War, remains, but no longer in his handwriting.

Officials in Fallujah, a city in western Anbar province and once a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold, rejected the new flag.

"This is a disaster.... I am using the old flag in my office and at home," the mayor of Fallujah, Saad Rasheed, told Reuters, adding he would raise the new one only if the Anbar provincial council told him to.

The U.S.-backed al-Hurra television station on Saturday said the Anbar provincial council would not fly the new flag, but Khamis Ahmed, a senior member of the body, denied the report.
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Many Iraqis objected to the Kurds’ forcing the change. In Baghdad, some motorists have fixed the old flag to their car antennas.

"They (the Kurds) say Saddam made it, but he did not. We refuse to change the flag because it represents us all," said Amir Saadoun, a resident of Baghdad.

And while parliament last Tuesday said the new flag should be flown immediately on all state buildings, the old one still hung from a pole near the entrance to the legislature on Saturday.

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[fenriswolf]

1. take away their government

take away any type of co habitation between the sects. take away their water, electricity, resources, oil, take away their safty, take away their lives and now take away their national identity and what do we have? we have a blank slate ready for being built up from the ground up. *shudder.

[underpants]

2. Remember they first screwed up attempt?