Iraqi musicians to play for Bush

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,8081763,00.html

US President George W Bush and First Lady Laura Bush are to attend a concert by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Washington next week.

The date was announced by the White House today.
"For musicians who have literally had to play in the dark during Saddam Hussein's regime, this concert exemplifies the possibilities that come with the light of freedom," said spokeswoman Claire Buchan.

"The president very much looks forward to attending this historic concert."

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The way they are manufacturing photo ops for Dim Son, I expect to see him delivering babies in an Iraqi hospital next week.

[Cha]

1. It's all about the "photo ops".....that and

broadening their spectrum of LIES!

[pinto]

2. they'll be quintuplets

Ha.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. And he'll be doing it blindfolded as he rides a unicycle while reciting

Robert Service poems backwards.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Um... why did the Iraqi Symphony Orchestra...

...have to "play in the dark" during Saddam's regime? I thought it was coalition forces that knocked the lights out for months.

[sistersofmercy]

5. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That is the best graphic I've seen! I almost spewed brew on my screen! Thanks for the terrific laugh!

[Cooley Hurd]

8. My old sig graphic was giving some DUers seizures...

here's my old one...

[sistersofmercy]

10. I liked that one also, very creative

but does sort of have a hyponotic effect. Thanks again!

[RenoUnd]

13. Why? because...

... they had less power under Saddam than they do now.

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. And there's 20,000 fewer customers!

I wonder if they will play "Always look on the bright side of life" from Life of Brian.

Welcome to DU...

Hmmmm.

[Cocoa]

17. they must be Howard Dean supporters

because they have the power! :-)

Welcome to DU! Keep telling us how much better the Iraqis are now, ok?

[truth2power]

21. Interesting link to Citizen Corps

if you look around on that cidi.org site. Hmmm....

edit: typo

[banana republican]

6. Sounds like

the concerts given in Auschwitz(SP)....

[Jacobin]

11. I thought the exact same thing when I read the headline.

Pretty creepy is it not?

[chasqui]

7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I get this mental image of a bunch of confederate prisoners playing for an arrogant union guard, so that the camp commander won't listen to the severe beating that the Ugly is getting from the Bad.
Just a mental image....

[bobthedrummer]

9. It won't be Radiohead cover songs

that's for sure, lol.

[Eloriel]

12. Playing for Time

I am assuming these musicians are not women with shaved heads.

Eloriel

[NNN0LHI]

16. Why does this remind me of a scene from "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly"?

[0rganism]

23. I got a flashback to "Time Bandits", myself

There's a scene when the bandits go to rob Napoleon, and they're meeting him for the first time, he's watching this puppet show in a burned out theatre. Anyway, if you've seen the movie you know what I mean.

[DeathvadeR]

18. Wonder if they know "Hail to the Theif?" n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

20. The Great Pretender would be better....

Oh-oh, yes I’m the great pretender
Pretending that I’m doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I’m lonely but no one can tell

Oh-oh, yes I’m the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I’ve played the game but to my real shame
You’ve left me to grieve all alone

Too real is this feeling of make-believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can’t conceal

Yes I’m the great pretender
Just laughin’ and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around

Too real is this feeling of make-believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can’t conceal

Yes I’m the great pretender
Just laughin’ and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. Isn't it amazing

that the members of the Iraqi National Symphony survived and also have their limbs so they can perform for the boy king? </sarcasm>

[kskiska]

22. Can * sit still long enough for the concert?

He's got the attention span of a mayfly, and only stayed for 20 minutes of The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg.