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1. Bruce Amsbary said,

   April 25th, 2007 at 10:05 PM

   Dang Jenn,

   I’ve been seeing that along the road for several days now and here all along I thought it was just a hub cap that Rorik had found while he was out jogging with the dogs! Little did I realize that there were terrorists in our midst. Buddhallah! I could have been killt! Let’s see how long it is until the Ministry of Homeland Insecurity is knocking on the doors of everyone in the McCloud Subdivision looking for the Muslims among us.

2. Abel said,

   April 26th, 2007 at 09:42 AM

   If roadside bombs did not kill so many people in Iraq, this might be funny.

3. Seth de l'Isle said,

   April 26th, 2007 at 11:08 AM

   Abel,

   Road side bombs killing people in Iraq is horrible, and a fake road side bomb on old Murphey Dome Rd., mocking the security theater of the department of Fatherland security is funny. This kind of humor is important in combating the propaganda or our government. Your comment is important because it’s easy for us privileged middle class Americans to forget that we benefit from the miserable conditions that the majority of the people on the planet suffer. Cynicism and dark humor is one of the ways that the more sophisticated among us make themselves comfortable with our role in our country’s crimes. Still, that humor may serve as cover for immorality does not mean we should lose our sense of it.

4. jenn said,

   April 26th, 2007 at 09:32 PM

   I totally agree with Seth about the use of humor. I believe that the Daily Show and The Colbert Report are doing way, way, way more to bring about change in America than any angry commentary ever could.

   However, I didn’t post this picture to be funny. When I saw this, the circumstances in Iraq were really driven home to me. What would it be like to have to worry about road side bombs on your commute to and from work? This anonymous display made me pause to think at the end of a very hectic day. That’s why I took the picture and that’s why I called it art.

5. Bruce Amsbary said,

   April 27th, 2007 at 07:50 AM

   Let us not forget that the real act of terror in Iraq is the illegal, immoral invasion and imperial occupation of Iraq by the Bush Regime. Saddam was not Shirley Temple (Ice cream, cake and candy, makes the world so dandy), but under his rule Iraqi women had far more freedoms and better access to education than they do today. Iraq (under Saddam’s thumb) was among the most “advanced” in the Mid-East. Saddam, like Tito, kept the violence we see today in Iraq under control. While Saddam would cart people off in the night to his prisons, the Iraqi people had a much better expectation of security and safety while walking and driving around their cities than they do today, and here I refer not to IED’s but the US Military. None of Saddam’s neighbors (with the exception of that terrorist state, Israel) saw him as the “threat” that Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld Inc. sold this war to us as – a bill of sale we now know (and many of us knew in 2002/2003) was a pack of knowing lies. We were told we would be in and out of Iraq in a matter of months and Bush Inc went charging in with poor planning and totally bungled the situation giving us the nightmare that is Iraq today. Now we are told we must be patient, and there is even talk that the occupation, which was supposed to last months may well last years or decades. My patience is gone.

6. Joshua Holbrook said,

   April 28th, 2007 at 02:34 AM

   Hah, that’s awesome. :D

   (The art piece, I mean, naturally.)

7. 50,000+ said,

   April 30th, 2007 at 12:36 AM

   ==THE 50K PLUS HE MURDERED IS THAT PART OF THE ,ADVANCED,BETTER TREATMENT TYPE SOCIETY YOURE TALKING ABOUT. IF HE WAS SUCH A LEADER AS YOU SAY WHY WAS HANGED.-DUH

8. 50,000+ said,

   April 30th, 2007 at 12:36 AM

   ==THE 50K PLUS HE MURDERED IS THAT PART OF THE ,ADVANCED,BETTER TREATMENT TYPE SOCIETY YOURE TALKING ABOUT. IF HE WAS SUCH A LEADER AS YOU SAY WHY WAS HANGED.-DUH

9. Seth de l'Isle said,

   April 30th, 2007 at 07:36 AM

   Hi 50,000+, no one is arguing that Saddam was anything less than a brutal tyrant. By a number of measures, however, our occupation is far worse than his dictatorship. People are starving. There is constant violence. We knock down the doors of people’s homes and haul them to prisons where they are tortured. We aren’t effectively providing electricity or water. There are no jobs. There are huge numbers of refugees fleeing from Iraq. We massacre groups of Iraqis from the air for the crime of gathering in the street. Of course, during much of the time that Saddam was committing his crimes, he was our ally.

   Saddam was hanged by a legal system that we created, part of a government propped up by our army. We are responsible for Saddam’s hanging. While I do not endorse the death penalty, if anyone deserves to be hanged Saddam is probably one of them and my guess is that the people of Iraq would agree. That said, Saddam’s was a show trial and his brutal hanging is a disgusting stain on the honor of the people of the United States.

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