General likens Iraq to "work of art" in progress

[Kadie]

General likens Iraq to "work of art" in progress
By Claudia Parsons
16 minutes ago


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior U.S. general compared Iraq on Thursday to a "work of art" in progress, saying it was too soon to judge the outcome and playing down violence and friction with Iraqi leaders as "speed bumps" on the road.

"A lump of clay can become a sculpture, blobs of paint become paintings which inspire," Major General William Caldwell, chief military spokesman, told his weekly Baghdad news briefing.

"The final test of our efforts will not be the isolated incidents reported daily but the country that the Iraqis build."

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"Every great work of art goes through messy phases while it is in transition," Caldwell said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061102/ts_nm/iraq_general_dc_1

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Unfortunately, it isn't red paint that is being applied to this "work of art"

[Kadie]

12. .

So true.

:cry:

[tanyev]

2. Guernica.

[BootinUp]

3. this is some sicko art General!

akin to taking a crap on the canvas don't ya think?

[gratuitous]

4. Just taste the Kool-Aidy goodness!

Shut up, all you skeptics! We're creating art here. I thought you libruls liked art! Well, I'm not going to sit here and listen to you people bad-mouth Leonardo Da Vinci! You art haters. You're just haters, all of you. You don't understand something, so you just hate it.

Haters. Grumble, grumble, grumble.

[Sabriel]

5. Is it like that one that used feces and urine as media?

Because that's how it looks from here.

[PATRICK]

6. Is he talking about military art?

I think he has lost his crayons somewhere. The analogy is insane. What satanic artist IS at work there anyway? Or is he talking about the bloody merger of various politics, war, history and religion? Maybe he means Fate and the main weirdness if his presumption of a transcendent victorious outcome. If ALL the generals are spinning their intellectual wheels in this mud, presumably off the weed, our military is becoming topdown completely addled.

Confine wishful thinking to the memoirs and confront the demands of REAL problems of today.

[hatrack]

7. Great - now they're explaining a bungled war as an aesthetic theory

Fucking brilliant.

[radfringe]

8. if it's a work of art

then maybe the Arts Council should be funding it... ya think?

favorite color: bloody red

maybe General Art Critic should hang this in his office:

[Kadie]

14. and going by this statement...

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"The final test of our efforts will not be the isolated incidents reported daily but the country that the Iraqis build."

If the Iraqis are able to rebuild their country into something that is not a war zone, the US will be able to stand up and take credit for the work of the Iraqi people?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Well, as an owner in the United States of America gallery, I don't want that

kind of 'art'!

[BootinUp]

10. This article is nothing by psyops propganda

Beaming right into my head. Take it out!!!!!!!!!!

[radfringe]

11. meanwhile, as an artist and a cartoonist

(yes I do paint serious art.. watercolor/oil/acrylic in addition to daily toons)

ennywhoo - as an artist - I demand an apology.

[Beelzebud]

13. Was 9/11 a "work of art" in this sick bastard's eyes?

Was the holocaust a work of art?

[Solly Mack]

15. So death is just the artist suffering for their art?

Would that make an IED just the means to splash the paint (human flesh) across the canvas(Iraq)?

So torture is just one more way an artist expresses their vision?

The canvas is a live human and the torture is the brush and the bruises and the cuts that appear show how the canvas is coming to ah...life? and the final product is the art?

[spanone]

16. People don't die creating art. 3000 dead soldiers is not a 'messy phase'.

That's a pretty lame, detached, fucked up statement.

P.S. Just who is this General?