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Gulf Artist Under Fire: A British Gulf War artist received a stormy reaction to his use of Mickey Mouse in a series of paintings depicting last year’s conflict with Iraq. In one of 35 works chosen for display at London’s Imperial War Museum, artist John Keane, 37, places a grinning Mickey Mouse on what appears to be a toilet in the sand with a shopping cart of anti-tank missiles nearby and a background of shattered palm trees. Some relatives of servicemen killed in the war described the paintings as an insult, and a spokesman for the Walt Disney Co. in London said executives would consider possible copyright implications.