The mural that Marines found Wednesday in Nasiriya depicts a plane crashing into a high-rise building. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/26/sprj.irq.mural/index.html NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in this southern city that was the site of intensive fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing into a building complex resembling New York's twin towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday. The plane's logo and coloring resembled that of Iraqi Airlines, said Getty Images News Service executive Brian Felber, based in New York. The photograph, showing two rifle-toting Marines in front of the mural, was shot by staff photographer Joe Raedle, who is accompanying the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force from Task Force Tarawa. Getty is a news photo agency that distributes about 500 photographs from around the world each day and has 10 staff members embedded with U.S. forces in the Iraq conflict. Felber said this photo was "causing a bit of a stir."
Yeah I saw that. They may not be so welcoming to the U.S. 'liberating' army as was hoped for. Hopefully they will be happy enough to get of Saddam that they won't be as anti-American
Well, that was in a military HQ. But I agree that the Iraqi's won't be as open as some would like to believe.
I waiting for Fox News to claim it is painted before 9/11, actually inspired the 9/11 terrorists, and is all the proof we need for regime change.
I'm waiting for some liberal to claim it was painted by the Marines so that FOX NEWS could say that it was painted before..... oh, nevermind. IT IS WHAT IT IS......
The buildings look more like a Baghdad tenement house than they do the World Trade Center. Besides, it was inside an Iraqi Military HQ building. What kind of mural did you expect to find inside a building like that? One that boasts American flags, a flower-decorated GWB portrait, and the lyrics of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA"?
That's nothing. Sources tell me that there is a mural at the Pentagon of Saddam with a cruise missle up his ass.
I read someone's take on this on another message board, and found it interesting. His take was that the mural demonstrates how difficult it is for an Iraqi to comprehend how tall the Twin Towers really were. His point was that we have so much more than them that even their fantasies aren't as good as our reality. I'm not sure if that is really the case, but it made me think.
And wait for CNN to link Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfield to this painting. Maybe they used to be part of the company that made the paint that was used to make this?
And then sigh in disgust when actual photos and documents do accurately link Cheney and Rumsfeld to so much other damning stuff.
I'm waiting for liberals to respond to criticism of the painting by saying that it's just free speech. And I'm sure we'll find out that some French painter was commissioned to do the painting. T
Meanwhile Al Gore is busy improving his brainchild... He plans to unveil the improvements to his original design later this year. Gore is calling it "The Internet, Version 2.0"
And Al Gore's critics will still hold on to the falsehood, that he actually claimed to have invented the internet.
Since Gore is with Apple Computer now, you never know what ideas he could hatch... first kissing tipper and now this... damn that dude is creepy
