{"id":831,"date":"2004-04-27T03:10:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-27T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T10:10:32","slug":"new-iraqi-flag-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/27\/new-iraqi-flag-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"New Iraqi Flag Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the ugly flag the Iraqi Puppet Council today agreed should replace the current Iraqi flag.<\/p>\n

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\"iraq4_jpgflagboy\"<\/a>
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Somehow, I don’t think the transplant will take.<\/p>\n

For one thing, it looks like the hated Israeli flag.<\/p>\n

“When I saw it in the newspaper, I felt very sad,” said Muthana Khalil<\/a>, 50, a supermarket owner in Saadoun, a commercial area in central Baghdad. “The flags of other Arab countries are red and green and black. Why did they put in these colors that are the same as Israel? Why was the public opinion not consulted?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the ugly flag the Iraqi Puppet Council today agreed should replace the current Iraqi flag. .. . . Somehow, I don’t think the transplant will take. For one thing, it looks like the hated Israeli flag. “When I saw it in the newspaper, I felt very sad,” said Muthana Khalil, 50, a supermarket owner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}