Iraq has a new flag. The AP reports, the flag – without the three green stars of Saddam Hussein’s ousted Baath party – was hoisted Tuesday over the Iraqi Cabinet building in Baghdad in a symbolic break with the past.
And it makes a real statement that differentiates it from other Middle East countries.
Like Syria…
Or Egypt:
Or Yemen:
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins