Iraq's New Flag? Design one

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curiousuburbcuriousuburb
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Four Flags of Modern Iraq (1921-Present)



1921



1958



1963



1991





2003 ??????



even the tabloids are getting in on it



Weekly World News to pay US$100 for winning design of New Iraqi Flag



suggestions? contributions serious or otherwise are cool.

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Is it just me or do countries that have black in their flag have a lot of troubles. Case in point, Taliban was all black.
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    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
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    mrbilldatamrbilldata Posts: 489member




    Is nice.





    However, I think most Iraqi soldiers are currently looking for a white flag.
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  • Reply 4 of 10
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Scott

    Is it just me or do countries that have black in their flag have a lot of troubles. Case in point, Taliban was all black.



    rastafarian colours are red green and black

    rastas ain't dun nobody no 'arm mon... busy jammin'



    plenty of countries have black in their flags

    some with violent pasts, admittedly, but more often due to equatorial proximity

    easy browse by letter at world flag database





    but there are four or five middle eastern countries that are sticking with the same bars and only messing with the stars and central content. syria (2) and iraq (3) are the same colour scheme, Yemen has no stars, Egypt has a crest in the centre... easy to confuse some



    Saddam added the arabic script between the three stars just before Gulf War I,
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  • Reply 5 of 10
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by groverat





    Put that one with Bush and Saddam in the headlock on there.







    BTW you all read this.



    Troops Told to Carry Freedom, Not the Flag
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  • Reply 6 of 10
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    Heck you dont even have to design one. Its been done. The colours are red and white, they are stripes and there is this box like part in the left and side corner at the stop with stars!





    *Not really funny but hey, what the heck!
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  • Reply 7 of 10
    immanuel goldsteinimmanuel goldstein Posts: 708member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by curiousuburb

    ?but there are four or five middle eastern countries that are sticking with the same bars and only messing with the stars and central content.



    That's due to the Pan-Arabist ideology very popular in the ?60s, Egypt also aletered its own to regain more distinctivness.

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    syria (2) and iraq (3) are the same colour scheme, Yemen has no stars, Egypt has a crest in the centre... easy to confuse some



    That's due to both of them being rueld by the same Pan-Arabist party: the Ba'ath.



    Quote:

    Saddam added the arabic script between the three stars just before Gulf War I,



    الله اكبر=Allah(u) akbar:

    ?God is greatest?



    That was part of of Saddam's ?epiphany?, finding Allah, forsaking hard liquor, etc?

    More an attempt to recapture some Islamist fervour, as Arab nationalism mixed with Marxism no longer delivered.



    I say give them back the original Hashemite flag, and a constituational monarch, I nominate 'Hassan bin Talal, brother of late King 'Hussain of Jordan, for the job.
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    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
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    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I jest, I jest!
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  • Reply 10 of 10
    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Scott



    BTW you all read this.



    Troops Told to Carry Freedom, Not the Flag



    What a strange article, the way it veered off at the end into tarantino-esque dialogue.
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