Originally posted on sciy.org by Rich Carlson on Tue 25 Mar 2008 07:40 PM PDT
and here we are today, the author of the video Guernica Iraq writes :
"Picasso captured an intense scene reflecting the deeply unjust suffering, agony and despair experienced by the people of
Guernica. And in doing so he produced one of the most iconic, powerful
and affecting pieces of anti-war artwork ever put to canvas. It is
little surprise then that a reproduction of the painting, which hangs
outside the entrance to the UN Security Council, was covered while
Colin Powell was attempting to sell the Iraq War to the world.
The
people of Iraq are suffering what amounts to the similar unjust
brutality inflicted on the people of Guernica Iraq, except it's practically
on a daily basis. A more accurate comparison would be to imagine having
the London Tube and Bus bombings everyday. And have them happen so
often that they become a predictable daily occurrence and part of life."
Guernica was the product of a fascist Spanish-German alliance between Franco and Hitler, and the corporatist sponsors of the Luftwaffe. The following collage of images come to us through the efforts of the Anglo-American alliance of Blair and Bush and through the courtesy of Boeing, Haliburton, Blackwater et al....
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