Iraq WMD Forgery Gets Venice Art Spotlight

[G_j]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-arts-iraq-intelligence.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Iraq WMD Forgery Gets Venice Art Spotlight
By REUTERS
Published: June 10, 2007
Filed at 10:28 a.m. ET

VENICE (Reuters) - Can bad intelligence make for good art?

Well, the art elite gathered in Venice are rolling out the red carpet for German artist Thomas Demand's tribute to bogus pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

Hanging from one of the buildings in the lagoon city is a massive image by Demand portraying the Niger embassy in Rome -- a suspected origin of forged documents claiming Saddam Hussein had sought uranium for a weapons program from Niger.

This was the same claim U.S. President George W. Bush cited in his State of the Union address in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Those infamous "16 words" of his address were later retracted.

"What interested me is that this whole thing starts with a fake, which is even a bad fake, but it develops into something more," said Demand, who unveiled his series of images on the Niger embassy on Thursday.
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[seemslikeadream]

1. I'd like to see that!

:hi:

funny how one thing leads to another G_j

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hktO3OdOPbs&eurl=

http://www.glumbert.com/media/foldingchair

[G_j]

2. I hear ya

it would be a laugh if it weren't a cry


:hi:

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Art imitates lies N/T