Not exactly a Betsy Ross story. Iraqi Konfused Kid blames the Kurds for the whole thing:
the only people who are actively seeking the retirement of the old flag and who hate it with all its gut are, unsurprisingly, the secessionist-dreaming Kurds, who are still dreaming their little chauvinistic Pan-Kurdish pipe dreams while we the Arabs, the ones who messed around with those Pan things and failed a century before them, can now enjoy this black comedy as they follow exactly the footsteps of our miserable fuck-ups.
Self-awareness is a wonderful thing.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/01/iraqs-new-flag/221041/
