[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: misgivings on Iraq War: A Four YearReflection

[wyatt2 at uiuc.edu]

Yes, Iraq has a flag.  A simple google search for "iraq flag" will bring up the flag.  There are different versions of the flag (some with writting some without), but if we use them just as a tally of deaths then I'm not sure if it would matter.

Steven

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>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:27:15 -0500 (CDT)
>From: <lsteinbe at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: misgivings on Iraq War: A Four YearReflection  
>To: Chuck Minne <mincam2 at yahoo.com>, Pete Rhomberg <rhomberger3000 at gmail.com>, msmith46 at uiuc.edu
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>Does Iraq have a flag? Paul Bremmer made one up early on after the invasion 
>that was blue and white, the same colors as the Israeli flag. Needless to say, this 
>didn't last long.
>
>Aloha,
>Lois Steinberg
>
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>>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: Chuck Minne <mincam2 at yahoo.com>  
>>Subject: [Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: misgivings on Iraq War: A Four Year 
>Reflection  
>>To: Pete Rhomberg <rhomberger3000 at gmail.com>, msmith46 at uiuc.edu
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>>
>>   This seems like a nice idea to me. What is the death
>>   ratio? Something like 100,000 to 3,000 or 100 to 3?
>>   I’m sure that Iraqi flags are hard to come by,
>>   especially tiny ones, but I could imagine a display
>>   or poster exhibiting 97 Iraqi flags and three US
>>   flags along with the explanation that while it would
>>   be impossible for a flag to be displayed for each
>>   victim of the war, this was the symbolic proportion
>>   of all those that should be mourned – or something
>>   like that.
>>
>>   Pete Rhomberg <rhomberger3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Something that seems to have been forgotten in
>>     this debate is one of the
>>     options that Martin proposed, and which I am
>>     highly in favor of, namely
>>     representing the Iraqi dead. While procuring over
>>     650,000 Iraqis flags
>>     would be an unreasonable burden on any group or
>>     coalition, I feel that
>>     if an alternative to American flags is not decided
>>     on, the least we can
>>     do is add Iraqi flags to signify a certain number
>>     of Iraqi deaths.
>>     While the loss of American servicemen and women is
>>     tragic, the loss of
>>     any life is also tragic, and we cannot forget the
>>     tragic death of over
>>     650,000 Iraqis.
>>     -Pete Rhomberg
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