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

[lsteinbe at uiuc.edu]

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 
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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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