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Title: Pentagon Pay $46,900 For Portrait of Don Rumsfield
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Published: Oct 21, 2008
Author: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/pe
Post Date: 2008-10-21 18:46:24 by tom007
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Pentagon Spends $50K for 2nd Rummy Portrait By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 21, 2008 | 3:23:00 PMCategories: Military Life Speaking of the government's silly wall art, the Washington Post has a rather hilarious feature on the massive sums federal agencies pay to get their chiefs' portraits painted. The Coast Guard in August awarded a $12,000 contract for a portrait of Adm. Thad W. Allen, a sharp drop from the $23,500 it spent in 2005 for a likeness of Allen's predecessor as commandant... At the upper end of the scale, the Defense Department awaits the expected February completion of a $46,790 portrait of controversial former secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. It will grace a Pentagon hallway lined with portraits of his predecessors, as well as one from Rumsfeld's first stint as defense secretary from 1975 to 1977. Refund the money, I say. This portrait, by Iraqi artist Muayad Muhsin, will do just fine: 
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Is it simply the fear factor that causes people to finance this kind of crap or are the people art lovers ???
There is no honor in bending one's knee to the banking elites that are robbing the children you claim to love of their future. Soon they'll convince those very same children that you deserve to be eliminated ... and they may be right. Doug Scheidt 10-21-08
Can't they just mount his head?
Freepers: hearts full of hate and cowardice, and skulls full, to quote a favorite saying of one of their favorite cowards, of mush.
Good one - I'am all for it.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I volunteer to do it for free.
I volunteer to do it for free. Merely throw a fresh pile of steaming dog dung against a canvas. Voila. Rumsfeld better than he's ever been.
Cheap at half the price. This will make an excellent mug shot when the day comes to prosecute this scum.
Doesn't it make you feel good all over to know where your tax dollars go?
Just can;t wait for April 15.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
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At the upper end of the scale, the Defense Department awaits the expected February completion of a $46,790 portrait of controversial former secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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