18 de febrer del 2007

New Iraqi Flag


Does anyone remember back in Spring of '04 when they hyped up the new Iraqi flag? The idea was promptly aborted, mainly because the design was so god-awfully ugly. I've thought about it several times and wondered why it was never, ever mentioned again after April of 2004. A search for it finds far fewer sites than one would expect. Maybe no one was paying attention. So, here's a graphic from The Onion about it, which is really spot on.

See? Isn't that amazing? What is amazing is that people thought that it would ever be used for anything other than cleaning up vomit.