September 18, 2002

Unflagging Support

This photo in The Tenenssean today, taken yesterday on a downtown Nashville street outside the Convention Center where President Bush was delivering a speech inside, is a wonderful counterpoint to that picture we saw a few months ago of a Palestinian girl wearing fake dynamite sticks and being held aloft by her proud (but deranged) father an at anti-Israel protest in Germany.

I found it curious that this young Iraqi girl is clutching her American flag so tightly, while the nearby anti-war protestors yesterday were not holding American flags at all.

The photo was shot by P. Casey Daley, a Tennessean staff photographer, and ran with the following caption: Hoping to see President Bush, Safaa Albadran, 4, stands outside the downtown convention center under a banner held by her father, Karim, left, proclaiming "Saddam: Out - Democracy In." If the image doesn't load, Click Here.