I'm amazed, amazed, amazed that there is a new Iraqi flag.

What is a flag, after all, but a symbol. So don't you think that they could have waited until AFTER the handoff in June to the new gov't (whatever the hell THAT turns out to be) before they go changing flags?

According to NPR, the flag predated Saddam Hussain so it really was the country's flag, not the regime's flag. So what sort of symbol does it send that there is a new flag and it's the one that the hated Provisional Government picked?

Symbolic element number two...most flags of Arabic nations are Black, Green and Red. The new Iraqi flag is mostly white with a pale blue crescent in the middle. Which makes it look like which flag??? Israel's flag. Not so satisfying to Iraqi citizens.