A Wingnut "Two Thirds"


Let's see--according to Shrub, there is "no doubt" among the terrorists about the efficacy of the surge...and you'd have to be a commie or, worse, an atheist, to question it in the American press...but it seems that the surge's success is perceived to be a bit more limited by the filthy wogs the Iraqi people.

Shaima, a 29-year-old artist, proudly displays her latest work in progress. White streaks stand out against a bright, burnt orange background -- an abstract painting that she says signifies the reality of life in Baghdad for the last five years.

"I am trying to show scattered body parts flying around," she says...

Dressed in a sleek gray shirt and spiked heels, Shaima looks like she belongs at an art gallery in Paris, not a run-down studio with no power in Baghdad.

Her art used to be as lively as her persona, but since the U.S.-led war began, she only expresses tragedy. It's the reality inside her, the death and destruction she has witnessed firsthand.

"Ruins of a city, a memory of a city only," the artist says as she describes what she sees when she looks at the streets of Baghdad. "I only see it full of sorrow -- the city that had such a busy past -- but now it's just a memory."

But hey, it's not like wingnuts actually, you know, cared about "the Iraqi people," except as a useful prop to push their deranged fantasies.