Too Jewish: Iraqis Replace New Flag After Hue and Cry//Jew to Draft Iraqi Constitution

Newsmax/Tehran Times ^ | 4-27-04

[SJackson]

Too Jewish: Iraqis Replace New Flag After Hue and Cry
Newsmax

Oopsy: Iraq's new flag, only days old, has bit the dust because it looked too much like Israel's.

Red-faced leaders today displayed a new banner with a similar design, two blue stripes along the bottom with a yellow stripe between them, topped by a blue Muslim crescent in a white field. But now the blue is darker, unlike the pale blue of the Jewish nation's symbol.

Hameed al-Kafaei, a spokesman for the Iraqi Governing Council, insisted the hues had not been not changed. He claimed that "the copies you saw in newspapers were not accurate."

Hundreds of university students in Mosul demonstrated against the pale blue flag today and waved the old Saddam-era banner of red, black and green.

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Jew to Draft Iraqi Constitution
Tehran Times

TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- An Iraqi analyst revealed on Saturday that a Jew, originally Iraqi, who acts as an advisor to the U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer, has been missioned to draft the Iraqi constitution.

Valid al-Zobeidi told the BBC Arabic service that the draft constitution will be implemented in July.

Bremer has earlier threatened to veto any Iraqi constitution which would consider Islam as the main backbone of the constitution. The Iraqi analyst has refused to disclose the name of the Jew.

[SJackson]

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Jewish flag, Jewish constitution. Here's hoping the EU isn't supplying their schoolbooks.

[danneskjold]

Hundreds of university students in Mosul demonstrated against the pale blue flag today and waved the old Saddam-era banner of red, black and green.

oy...

[McGavin999]

Gee, that's funny. The only way that could happen is if the Iraqi people elected all Jews to their new parliment in January, since it's the new parliment who is going to draft the constitution. They can only draft it since the Iraqi people have to vote on it before it is put into effect.

[Arkie2]

Where's Betsy Rosslamiyah when you need her!

[johnb838]

Well they gave them a UN liaison that calls Israel 'poison' and brags he's never shaken hands with a Jew, what more do they want?

[SF Republican]

That was my first impression, the flag looked a lot like the flag of Israel.

[doug9732]

NAZIsm is very popular throughout the Arab world.

[Alouette]

brags he's never shaken hands with a Jew

Well, if he did, his penis would shrivel up and fall off!

[Piranha]

Take a look at these alternatives, but make sure that you don't have anything in your mouth when you do. There are two sets of flags (posted at 11:29 a.m. and the others at 4:51 p.m.). Be sure to scroll down and see them both. I think that the bottom (11:59 a.m.) set is best.

[SJackson]

My favorite

[Piranha]

This man would be a good choice to oversee the new constitution.

[norton]

"An Iraqi analyst revealed on Saturday that a Jew, originally Iraqi, who acts as an advisor to the U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer, has been missioned to draft the Iraqi constitution."

There is a message there folks, do yourselves a favor and pay attention to it.

[Piranha]

I'm not sure which is your favorite, but this is mine:

[johnb838]

Well, if he did, his penis would shrivel up and fall off!

heheh I'd forgotten that one.