I have to agree with EricofSD. The last war period was flamey indeed (the OT forum got lots of locked threads, I recall) and the galleries were really itchy about everything. But, as E said, I'm anti-war so I posted my anti-war images, got some bashed and trashed, others went along saying what I meant to say. But the artist in question has a point. The general feeling, last march/april, was that you had to fight agains a huge wave of pure pro-US propaganda. And he's right, some of the works were really poor and blatant in their fanatic blindness. I'm very unhappy about his decision, but I really can't say he's doing the "ball is mine, so I go home" sort of thing. IMO, is never a good thing to slam the door and avoid confrontation, but I really can't say that I don't understand him. Just my 2c. S.