truthout | Silencing Picasso

As Colin Powell lobbied the world to back his proposal to drop 800 cruise missiles on Baghdad the mural of Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica, that hangs in the UN chamber where they spoke was covered and hidden from our view. Someone apparently thought that we should not consider its implications while listening to a debate on the destruction of Baghdad. Let us now hear from the distinguished gentleman from Spain, Mr. Picasso.