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rltipton
12-17-2009, 23:26
I saw this painting in Iraq and thought it was interesting. I'm curious what you fellas think about it. It was painted on the wall at the fuel station on Kirkuk air base.
Be safe,
Randy
Big Boss
12-18-2009, 02:19
I think someone should take an art class on proportionality, that kid is gigantic.
I think someone should take an art class on proportionality, that kid is gigantic.
So was Goliath.....
It depicts an evil Jooooo-ish conspiracy :D …and it reminds me of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
Ambush Master
12-18-2009, 08:10
I recall seeing pictures of similar drawings all over IQ after the Invasion. This could be one of those remnants. Paint/White-wash over it and see what returns, that will at least give you a better timeline for relevance!!
rltipton
12-18-2009, 08:37
I recall seeing pictures of similar drawings all over IQ after the Invasion. This could be one of those remnants. Paint/White-wash over it and see what returns, that will at least give you a better timeline for relevance!!
I imagine it has been painted over by now. I took the picture around Apr-May of 2003. The painting had been there a long time. It was scarred and faded, but it was right there in your face on the main drag beside the airfield at their equivalent of the Smokebomb Hill AAFES gas station...couldn't miss it.
Do you know of any photos of similar paintings, Ambush Master? I'd be interested in seeing them if so.
Also, it's hard to see in the photo, but the child is not only huge, but he is also sporting a bleeding stump where his right leg should be. I thought it was just a really weird and morbid thing to have painted on a wall in a public place.
A picture is worth a thousand words - and useful when broadcasting a narrative - even one of hatred to the barely literate and subservient.
The age old message of anti-semitism and the grand Jewish conspiracy, the face of death and the cowboy hat (America) on the figure bearing the Star of David, the idea of revenge for the maiming of the {Iraqi} people (presumably GW1) but not their fighting spirit to stand against evil - all typical of the message of Muslim victimology and a global conspiracy (Judeo-Christian) used by such repressive regimes as Saddam's to demonize the West and feed the xenophobic emotions of their populations.
Sad - but interesting - symbolically and historically.
Richard's $.02 :munchin