Me too. I like the little Martian guy.

Yea, I really can't believe you've gone and done this Dean. History, history, history, history.

Oh yea. History.

He forgot the decapitated child the soldier should be standing on.

Cynthia Tucker has an OpEd up regarding such nonsense. She begins with a great quote:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president ... right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt, 1918

As I noted right here, Tucker's cartoon is one long non-sequitur--and comparing our troops and those who support them to Nazis is simply vile hatemongering and unpatriotic buttheadedness.

I will not play host to such inappropriately hate-filled rantings.

I can't imagine why right-wing defenders of the war would want to use imagery so tained with the National Socialist connections.

Funny, I've never heard anyone compare our troops to Nazis. I wonder where he gets his material from. Weird.

I've heard plenty of people call Bush a Nazi, which is just a stupid accusation that shows that person's ignorance. But I've never heard any rational person refer to our troops in such a manner.

"I will not play host to such inappropriately hate-filled rantings."
--Dean Esmay

I don't see any in the comments so far. Dan's remark is a little mean, but pretty relevant given the carnage we accidentally caused at that Iraqi wedding party.

"I can't imagine why right-wing defenders of the war would want to use imagery so tained with the National Socialist connections."

- Can't you, now?

Let's see. The Bush neocons pursue a war in Iraq based on lies, fed to them by Ahmed Chalabi, who turns out to be an Irani spy, among his many accomplishments. We smash Saddam's army in double time, but no one has any plans for what to do next, since Chalabi reassured Cheney and Wolfie and Rummy that we'd be greeted with open arms. We're so concerned about WMDs that we don't even bother securing the known nuclear sites for a month after the fall of Baghdad. Looters running riot there as elsewhere. "No one coulda forseen it!" sez Rummy et al. "Freedom is untidy!" Excpet that it WAS forseen by millions, including Bush's own totally ignored State Department.

Sound like a boondoggle yet? But we've hardly started.

Rummy doesn't allocate enough troops for the aftermath (vociferously firing and smearing the senior US general who said he'd need more boots on the ground). We go into all this having alienated all the allies who were so supportive of our (actually relevant to the War on Terror) invasion of Afghanistan, so that the US has to bear the whole brunt of the losses and the expense. First one US viceroy is installed, then another. We make one policy blunder after another after another. Soldiers don't have adequate body armor. The military is stretched to the breaking point.

All on the basis of a war that is as big a non-sequitur to 9/11 as if we'd chosen to invade Venezuela after Pearl Harbor. All based on lies, and the willing, cretinous credibility of (mainly) Dick Cheney, whose reputation as a realist is slightly less justified than if he were Timothy Leary. In the face of massive advice from professionals with actual combat experience, who have the quaint idea that you ought to put thousands of idealistic and heroic young men and women in harm's way only for the most clear-cut of reasons and with the most serious consideration of their needs, we have the best of our youth being slaughtered for a bizarre boondoggle based on think-tank theories and lies.

Is that a "lefty" point of view?

Here's what that lunatic lefty, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni thinks. Accusing top Pentagon officials of "dereliction of duty," Zinni told CBS that staying the course in Iraq isn't a reasonable option. "The course is headed over Niagara Falls. I think it's time to change course a little bit or at least hold somebody responsible for putting you on this course,"

But hey, brilliant cartoon--it's the libruls who are at fault here, folks!

So, um, here's the thing, though. I thought you right wingers were big on personal responsibility, accountability and all that good stuff. So how stupendously badly does Bush and his Krew of Krazy inKompetents have screw up before it's HIS fault and not Bill's or Hillary's or "the libruls" whoever they are? FUBAR doesn't even approximate what a disaster these self-deluded, Chalabi-scammed rubes have accomplished.

Even if you are a supporter of this war, can't you see what a HORRENDOUSLY lousy job your political leadership has done in prosecuting it?

Well, go ahead, blame the libruls. But that sharp sensation you keep feeling back there? That's reality biting you in the ass.

"Dan's remark is a little mean, but pretty relevant given the carnage we accidentally caused at that Iraqi wedding party."

Yeah, concerning that party: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8733532.htm

Regardless of what you think of President Bush (and I don't think that much of him, nor of his Democratic opponent), it is despicable to smear our brave soldiers as Nazis.

Thanks Dean! Been busy working on my next book, so I haven't been blogging very much last few months.

Bolo: Look at the date of the cartoon, then go here (IndyMedia) to find the context for it: http://dc.indymedia.org/media/all/display/17011/index.php?limit_start=24

That image at IndyMedia is what prompted the cartoon.

I don't think we went to war based on lies, and I think you have to be a pretty hateful person to think we did.

Oh, and by the way? In response to the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, America promptly engaged Italian and German troops in Northern Africa.

Guess that must have been all about lies and deception and incompetence too, eh?