[lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib inspires artist Fernando Botero

Mycos mycos at shaw.ca
Mon May 9 13:02:43 PDT 2005


Maybe I'm just stating the obvious, but what's new to Botero is that only a few years ago, America could at least pretend to be the champion of human rights, the slayer of injustice. But now?

That's what Botero "just discovered".... for us.

Gary Williams

http://mycos.blogspot.com/

Michael Dawson wrote:

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> Beyond that, all I was trying to say about
> Botero is that he sounded like he’d just discovered war crimes. I
> realize he was probably quoted by a journalist who ignored the balance
> of what he said, but Abu Ghraib should not be surprising to anybody
> who’s followed the war machine.
>
>



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