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New Billboard posters detined for South Africa, designed by the Ogilvy Ad Agency apparently....







Link to full size versions. well, not full billboard size, obviously.....

I would be interested to know what you think the reaction to them would be if they went up in your town?

If the Iraq war went up in my town, I think someone would set fire to the billboard and start a forest fire.

YAY!

True story: I've known girls named Mohammed

Quite clever, however just because you have killed less people doesn't make you just. I wonder how many of those 1.03 million have been combatants?

Edited, May 20th 2009 8:41am by Goggy

The sign is also misleading in that it seems to ignore the massive death toll incurred during the Iran-Iraq war which Saddam started. I'm not sure how many of the casualties were Iraqis, but like a million people died in that war.

Edit: It uses the highest possible estimate for deaths during the Iraq war, and apparently, the lowest possible estimate for deaths during the Iran-Iraq war. It's a dodgy sign.

That said, the Iraq War is a piece of sh*t that should have either been done in 1991 or else not at all. They put the populace under harsh and totally dysfunctional sanctions for more than a decade, and then flew in and blew everything up with the sh*tty casus belli of "he has WMDs!"

Generally, though, killing less people than your opponent does is a good place to start on the scale of being more right than them.

Edited, May 20th 2009 9:34am by zepoodle

I said it was a good place to start, not that it was definitive.

I'm not sure they'd say all that much in Boston either. There has never been much support for this war here either and you regularly see anti-war protesters in town. I like to see the people who are out every Sunday on the Portland to South Portland bridge in Maine. There are a few that have been protesting the war faithfully every weekend for several years so in the Northeast, at least, this sentiment is not unfamiliar.

Might be a dumb question but why are they destined for South Africa?

I can't even read it on my monitor. What's it say?

I think the comparison is that George is considered an inherently British name. Although I'm sure Nobby will come along an tell us it's a derivative Greorgen the Viking or something.

Number of Americans following a "Divine" Emperor before Dec 7 1941 O

Number of Japanese following a "Divine" Emperor before Dec 7 1941 ALL

Stupid but thought provoking, South Africa is an interesting choice as they have similar Illegal Immigration problems as the U.S. (even under Apartheid)

Just think, if not for the Allies, Mohammar Qadafi might have been Sprechen zie Deutsch !!!