This Modern World: I'm sorry, were you saying something about Iraq?

[meegbear]

[jmp]

1. Why are Dems worried about talking heads ...

Being "upset" about the BetrayUs ad?

Most Americans don't even know who the man is.

[zeemike]

2. Tom Tomorrow knows how to make a point n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. I disagree in this case, actually - it's not clear to me which side of the case he's arguing.

I think it probable that he is satirisng & attacking the critics of Moveon, saying "are you really saying Conservatives will do this?", but possible that he's agreeing with them and satirising the poor priorities of the conservatives who do do that.

Leaving the viewer uncertain which side you're on is not a good way of making a point, in general

[spooky3]

5. If you look at the use of "outrage" in panel 4 and "infuriated" in panel 6

it appears to me that he's saying that the attack on MoveOn's ad was another manufactured "outrage" intended to distract people from the TRUE outrage that is our planned, permanent occupation.

[meegbear]

3. kick

[redqueen]

6. I love his work.

Thanks for putting it here... I never look up comics anymore.

:hi:

[Hydra]

7. Meh

I feel like that too often, even here on DU. Why was I bothering, again?

[EVDebs]

8. Link to website that got the Quakers spied on by NSA...

http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/bases.htm

[alfredo]

9. If Malaki asks us to leave, you know he will liquidated. Too much money

has been invested to leave. Now that Hunt Oil has a contract, bush will have to stay. The Hunts are friends of the BFEE.

[EVDebs]

10. Back in July he DID say we could leave 'anytime they want'

Iraqi PM: Troops can leave 'any time they want'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-14-iraqi-primeminister_N.htm

[alfredo]

11. And bush ignored it.

[Didereaux]

12. actually the Cheney/Rumsfeld doctrine was written....

Way back during the Nixon administration Cheney, Rumsfeld and I believe Wolfowitz argued in a paper that there was a need fro the US to, if necessary, invade a mid-east country in order to provide a military presence close enough to insure Israeli security, as well as providing protection for the oil. For all intents and purposes these guys never changed any of the main thesis. They are remarkable for no other reason than they were able to fend off fact and reality fro thirty years.