What Passes for funny in Rightwing land

[Dardedar]

My friend Bill Y. sent along this cartoon:



Poor Bill doesn't realise his war is lost and no one is paying much attention to the hapless president anymore. A clear majority of Iraqi's do not even want a democracy (they prefer theocracy or dictator) so what, are we going to force it upon them at the end of a gun? A considerable majority of Americans admit the war is lost so when congress talks about withdrawing funding they are just representing the will of the majority of the population. This war is not going to be sustained without the support of the populace and that was lost sometime ago. The timeline put forward by congress is unmistakably similar to the plan outlined by the republican "old school", the James Baker group. I believe they also noticed that this Iraq mess has certainly not made the US safer. Who could believe that? So there goes the idea that this war has anything to do with "supporting" some nebulous "war on terror."
Did I miss anything? The idea that a cartoon this ridiculous would even need to be responded to just shows that some people aren't paying attention, or they are getting their facts from Faux News.

D.

[Savonarola]

My friend Bill Y. sent along this cartoon:

You should send him this one.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Bill Y is very representative of that group of "sheeple" who believe Saddam was connected to the 9/11 terrorist attack, had WMDs that weren't disposed of in or just after Gulf I, and the rest of the lies the neo-con artists put out as excuses to attack Iraq. I think the last poll had that group at about 32% of the populace. If/when America as a "free" democratic republic is ever eaten by the totalitarian wolves wrapped in the U.S. flag, it will be people like Bill Y who will have tied us up and fed us to them - in the name of patriotism.

These are the people who don't pay attention to real symbols. Elephants eat more in a day than a mule-driven team can harvest in a week, even though that same harvest could/would otherwise feed a small town. Mules and donkeys have served America since day one. Elephants are part of the circuses that amuse and distract ordinary people while their pockets are being picked. Even the Dems who are R-lite, don't take more than the system can sustain. Rs do and the system may not survive it, even if we get rid of them in slightly under 2 years (as in a veto-proof congress or a Dem White House with a close to veto proof congress - I don't advocate a Dem-held government for long because power always does corrupt, but we need to pull our country back from the edge of the cliff in those few "brief shining moments" before the corruption sets in).

[Dardedar]

DAR
Regarding the idea that support for the Iraq war is a way to make the US safer, this just in:

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WASHINGTON - Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up more than 25 percent last year, killing 40 percent more people than in 2005, particularly in
Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and suicide bombers to target crowds, the State Department said Monday.

...

In its annual global survey of terrorism, the department said 14,338 attacks took place in 2006, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, 3,185 more than in 2005 representing a 28.5 percent increase.

These strikes claimed a total of 20,498 lives, 13,340 of them in Iraq, 5,800 more, or a 40.2 percent increase, than last year, it said.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

As long as America obligingly plays the role of evil heretic trying to destroy the "one true faith" by killing off the "faithful", terrorist attacks from those "faithful" will escalate. Should America ever start to be a part of the solution instead of part of the problem, the problem will diminish. We are a recruiting force for the nutcases (of any "faith") with our current behavior - we are proving them right to the folks who otherwise would be on our side against the extremists. Unfortunately, American mythology has just too many "one-man, one gun" white male "heros" with usually more intelligent but subservient brown sidekicks (the Lone Ranger's Tonto or the Green Hornet's Cato, for example) winning fights with either white male supercriminals or mindless hoards of brown peoples. Reality is a long reach from the fantasy land in which most Americans live.

[Dardedar]

DAR
This Washington Post article adds (to my above):

"The figures, compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and released with the annual State Department Country Reports on Terrorism, showed that the number of incidents in Iraq rose 91 percent, from 3,468 in 2005 to 6,630 in 2006.

Almost all of those incidents involved the death, injury or kidnapping of at least one person. All told, the number of people killed, injured or kidnapped as a result of terrorism in Iraq jumped 87 percent, from 20,685 to 38,713."

[Dardedar]

DAR
Interesting how the populace trusts the Demos in Congress to handle Iraq war (see Donkey above) over Bush by a huge 25% margin:

"A Washington Post-ABC News poll of 1,141 adults, conducted April 12-15, found that 58 percent trusted the Democrats in Congress to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq, compared with 33 percent who trusted Bush."

Washington Post

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

I guess it's reassuring that only 1/3 of this country is neo-fascists (or mindless robots). Hopefully the rest of us will be able to hang together should the Asian banks call in their loans and our economy goes belly-up. Otherwise, to quote Ben Franklin, "We most assuredly will hang separately."