Remember the 'new' Iraqi flag?

[CrispyQ]

Which flag will be at the polls this week? You won't be reading anything about the 'new' flag this week, I'll bet.

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/000140.html

snip...

When a new CEO takes charge, often at the top of the agenda is a new logo. What better way to project the enterprise’s newly redirected mission, not to mention the authority of the new regime?

Someone must have been thinking along those lines in Iraq, where the beleaguered interim Governing Council this week unveiled a new flag design. And a handsome design it is: a pure white field representing the freshly reborn nation, a blue crescent standing for Islam, twin blue bands for the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and a yellow stripe for the Kurdish population.

Iraqis, however, don’t seem to be buying it.

“When I saw it in the newspaper, I felt very sad,” said Baghdad supermarket owner Muthana Khalil on MSNBC. “The flags of other Arab countries are red and green and black. Why did they put these colors that are the same as Israel? Why was the public opinion not consulted?” Other Iraqis objected to the deletion of the phrase “God is great,” which had been added to the old flag in an admittedly cynical move to shore up religious support for Saddam Hussein.

more...

Ah, the days when imperialists really knew what they were doing. Today’s efforts seem halfhearted by comparison. The U.S.-sanctioned leadership in Iraq – like many logo-manipulating management teams before them – committed the common error of mistaking easy symbolism for difficult substance. As a dissenting Governing Council member, Mahmud Uthman, observed, “I think there are issues more important to concentrate on than the changing of the flag.”

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The section I emphasized in bold sums up our current administration pretty well.

[Streetdoc270]

1. You don't see the flag anywhere

I think it got shuved down the 'memory hole' after all the outrage about it.

[NewHampshireDem]

2. Problem with your post ...

the word Iraq should be in quotation marks ... the flag certainly was "new." :)

[ck4829]

3. Hypocrisy

Bush and the Republicans are fighting to keep God in our slogans and symbols here in America and fighting to keep God out of Iraq's slogans and symbols.