Thoughts on life, love and faith by Plasticmind.

18 February 20071. John:

That's really funny. On a number of levels.

I wonder about the fact that the graph represents "Don't know" as a group distinct from "In Favor" or "Against"... My feeling is that if you drew a world map and asked Americans at random who was in favor or against to point at Iraq, 50% or more would fail on the first try.

(And I haven't done the geometry, but how do the white stars and the higher number of red stripes work out in a numerical sense?)

So, does the artist not get the math? Or is he taking artistic license with the numbers to express his personal views? Or, is he making a statement about the volatility of opinions of Americans? And in an age where anyone can get maps of downtown Baghdad on Google, is it really important to know where Iraq is?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=baghdad+Iraq&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=33.329955,44.440041&spn=0.101546,0.21698&t=h&iwloc=addr

Whatever, it was really clever and funny, thank you.

19 February 20072. Dawn:

That is cool. I think the artist is projectiong hiis personal view. Not being realistic. There does seem to be a divide on those who support and htose who don't and then there are those who dont care

btu what about people like me, who is a supporter at first, then sick and tired of all that is going on and think that, "Well we did all we can now this is their mess. and hey, why did we get ourselves into this in the first place?"

I'd be interested in hearing what our soldiers really think about all this

19 February 20073. ren:

On the U.S. flag--I find it interesting that it is the only one of the series on the site that uses an opinion question. I also rarely trust polls that limit that choice to a simple yes/no--for/against question style. Nothing is really so simply quantified.

On the others--I find the E.U. flag rather telling in many ways.
I find the Somalia flag absolutely heart-breaking.