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Hard to forget the red, white, and blue "Mission Accomplished" banner that formed part of the background for George W. Bush's 2003 speech announcing the end of major combat in Iraq. Earlier, when his administration was making the case for war against that country to the U.N., there was a background deemed so unsuitable it was covered by a velvet curtain: a tapestry version of Pablo Picasso's
Guernica. It probably comes as no surprise that politicians' staged photo ops are just that, staged ~ in every way. It therefore behooves us to pay attention to the artwork against which they choose to be photographed:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160412-the-secret-symbols-politicians-use
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