Reply #8: "Guernica" was draped because ... [View All]

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On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive and incendiary bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Guernica burns for three days. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.

http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html

On March 20, 2003 (66 years after Guernica), unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Bu$hco against the civilian population of the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. Colin Powell knew it was coming. He knew what he had to say to the UN that day was untrue. And he knew that Guernica is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most well-known artist, Pablo Picasso. The mere draping of this work of art told me that we were in much deeper trouble with Bu$hco than we had ever imagined.


Picasso