Author: Spike
CARTOON: AG = Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Abu Ghraib
The news this week that the drapes are coming off the statues at the Justice Dept. reminded me of this cartoon I did after Gonzales was nominated for AG.
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CARTOON: Forgive Us Our Debts
Maybe It’s Rove That Needs Therapy
I don’t know about anyone else, but it strikes me as pretty ridiculous when a guy like Rove, who probably got more than his share of wedgies back in high school, starts going off accusing liberals of being soft, as if he’s some kind of tough guy.
And how is advocating showing restraint after 9/11 a sign of weakness? If we didn’t show restraint and fully apprise the situation before acting, we might go off half-cocked and strike out blindly against some country that had nothing to do with it. That would just make things worse. Oh wait, that’s what we did, wasn’t it?
The cartoon I did was about Rove’s insinuation that liberals would like to see American troops die. Yes, that’s right, we didn’t want to strike back after 9/11 because we’re squeamish and wanted to avoid any more bloodshed but we want to see lots of bloodshed in Iraq.
Makes sense in Rove’s mind.
CARTOON: Eye for an Eye of the Beholder
CARTOON: One Nation, Under Surveillance
CARTOON: "What a Mother!"
CARTOON: "Fly the Friendly Skies"
[promoted by BooMan]
CARTOON: Vietnam’s "Vietnam"
CARTOON: Bravo, Mr. President!
The last week or so has been pretty depressing. Kind of like finding an old picture of yourself (when you were younger and thinner) and wondering “what happened?!” The Deep Throat/Watergate retrospectives on TV this last week have really highlighted how far the MSM has let itself go; feasting on a steady diet of junk like the Michael Jackson case and avoiding any strenous activity like investigating the Bush Administration even when the Downing Street Memo drops in their laps.
It’s not like the politicians are any better. Around the time when Reagan died, I saw an old Gerald Ford press conference rebroadcast on C-SPAN. Did anyone else catch that? The reporters were launching a myriad of multi-part questions at Ford and he was actually ANSWERING them with some very articulate responses. Today, Bush sounds flustered like he’s interviewing for a job when he answers a limited number of questions and today’s journalists often sound like patsies (which is the inspiration for the cartoon I’ve posted).