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By I Got Dibs On The Blog

June 23, 2006 08:02 AM | Link to this

I’ll give cartoon boy a week to clear his cubicle out.

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Sen. John Murtha, a Marine veteran and a fervent opponent of the Iraq war, is not waiting for the conclusion of the investigation to accuse the Marines of killing civilians in “cold blood” at Haditha. But Neal Puckett, an attorney representing Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich — a veteran Marine who led the Kilo Company squad that mounted four major combat operations in Haditha on Nov. 19 that resulted in 23 deaths — makes a powerful case that the Marines followed proper procedures in searching for the insurgents responsible for the earlier attack. In an interview with this newspaper, he described in some detail how the Marines decided to raid three houses in which they believed jihadists were hiding and to stop a car with five Iraqi men inside who attempted to flee. “My client did nothing contrary to his training on that day,” Mr. Puckett said. “Some [of those killed] were innocent. Others, you will never know whether they were innocent civilians or not.”-Washington Times Editorial

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Why not? Because such smugness masks a massive moral paralysis. The morally superior (read: paralyzed) don’t really take sides, don’t really believe one culture is qualitatively better or worse than the other. Only in this atmosphere of politically correct and perpetually adolescent non-judgmentalism could anyone believe, for example, that compelling, forcing or torturing a jihadist terrorist to get information to save a city undermines our “values” in any way. It undermines nothing — except the jihad.

Do such tactics diminish our inviolate sanctimony? You bet. But so what? The alternative is to follow our precious rules and hope the barbarians will leave us alone, or, perhaps, not deal with us too harshly. Fond hope. Consider the 21st-century return of (I still can’t quite believe it) beheadings. The first French Republic aside, who on God’s modern green earth ever imagined a head being hacked off the human body before we were confronted with Islamic jihad? Civilization itself is forever dimmed — again.

Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, RIP.-Washington Times

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Does anyone know what the words “openly subversive” mean?:

A fresh barrage of criticism is erupting over the decision of The New York Times to disclose last night another classified surveillance program aimed at gathering information about terrorist plots.

“The president is concerned that, once again, the New York Times has chosen to expose a classified program that is protecting the American people,” a White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, said last night. “We know that terrorists look for any clue about the weapons we’re using to fight them and now, with this exposure, they have more information and it increases the challenge for our law enforcement and intelligence officials.”-NewYorkSun

Is this not “Giving aid and comfort to the enemy?”

When are we going to enforce the law?

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this

With the economy booming, more young people are finding work, including summer jobs. But economists have long known that when minimum wages go up, the number of jobs for kids tends to go down. Even experts who cling to the belief that raising the minimum wage has no net negative effect on the economy generally agree that such wage-hikes price many unskilled workers out of the market. Since no group has fewer skills than youngsters, they will be the first fired, or not hired, as employers react to the higher cost of labor.

Why pay four kids, an employer may well reason, when for the same, now higher, minimum salary I may be able to attract three adults with a bit more experience?

The implications are especially profound for poor and inner-city black kids. Starting at a disadvantage, they have the most to gain from an introduction to the world of work skills. They also face the most predictably bleak future if they miss this foothold.-Wall Street Journal

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

You’ve got to hand it to the liberals. Their response to alleged misconduct by American troops at Haditha has been remarkably calm and controlled. Take Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s statement: “I’ve resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that … we should do our best not to … prejudge jury trials.”

Oh, wait. Sorry. This comment was actually made in 2003, when a reporter asked then-Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean his preferred punishment for Osama bin Laden.-NYSun

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

The New York Times, Anti American harlots:

It’s impossible to imagine the frustration and stress on American soldiers in Iraq today — impossible, or maybe it’s simply not something we willingly work to imagine. Then the news breaks. My first thought on hearing about the alleged atrocities at Haditha — and of the announcement this week that murder charges are being brought against eight American servicemen for killing an Iraqi civilian at Hamdania in April — was “Duh.” If we didn’t know this day was coming, we were fools.

Didn’t know what was coming, the Al Qaeda crime scene set up?

When was the court martial, did I miss it?

Do you maggots even care about the court martial?

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:07 AM | Link to this

The Democrats all but jumped for joy over the sleazy opportunity they saw to exploit the soldiers’ deaths for their political purposes. Listen to Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin’s comment that the discovery of the two mutilated soldiers’ bodies is a “grim reminder of the price we’re paying for a failed policy in Iraq.”

Like (Uncle) McKenzie, he didn’t bother to direct his anger at the fiends who committed the atrocity.-HumanEvents

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

The turning point in Vietnam was the Tet Offensive of February, 1968. It was a crushing defeat for the Viet Cong. “Our losses were staggering and a complete surprise,” said North Vietnamese Army Col. Bui Tin in a 1995 interview. “Our forces in the South were nearly wiped out. It took until 1971 to re-establish our presence.”

The news media reported this overwhelming American victory as a catastrophic defeat. (Sound familiar?)

“Donning helmet, Mr. Cronkite declared the war lost,” recounted UPI’s Arnaud de Borchgrave. “It was this now famous television news piece that persuaded President Lyndon Johnson…not to run for re-election.”-RealClearPolitics

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this

Following this up a week later was the revelation about Senate minority leader Harry Reid (Democrat-Nevada) accepting tickets to boxing matches in Las Vegas from the Nevada Athletic Commission while in the middle of crafting laws to regulate the sport. Even though three weeks have passed, it is still delicious to review the excuse for this behavior as offered up by the Associated Press on May 30. See if you can read the following without spitting coffee all over your keyboard:

“He defended the gifts, saying that they would never influence his position on the bill and he was simply trying to learn how his legislation might affect an important home state industry.”-RealClearPolitics

By Pot To Kettle

June 23, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this

Democratic Party leaders apparently can’t grasp the fact that while most Americans don’t like the way the president is handling the war, the public is also disgusted with Democrats’ failure to come up with a better plan to win, and not just another plan to retreat. People such as Howard Dean and Harry Reid are impervious to the thought that Americans see the cut-and-run crew as nothing more than a stomach-turning reprise of the Dem antiwar protesters of the Vietnam era. The cut-and-run crowd got a new name last Tuesday: They’re “ACE Democrats” in the words of retired Air Force Lt. General Thomas McInerny - “ACE” having nothing to do with shooting down enemy aircraft. Instead, in McInerny’s formulation it’s an acronym for giving “Aid and Comfort to the Enemy.”-RealClearPolitics

Works for me.

Hey, all you lib “war heros” can finally be called ACE’s.

Congratulations.

By GodHatesTrash

June 23, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

@ Pot,

You mean the laws about illegal search and seizure, search warrants, and the like?

Silly trash.

By Mike

June 23, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

Wow when did Lucko become part of the Al Gore camp. You know the guys think that the world is coming to an end all because of global warming.

By @@

June 23, 2006 08:20 AM | Link to this

What’s this? A safe bet on the name of today’s toon.

There’s a whole lotta people out there ml, whose boat you don’t float anymore, thanks to yesterday’s abominable cartoon.

Let’s see now….it had two different titles didn’t it? Why do you reckon that was ml? We all know why.

I wanna laugh here, but I don’t do the HAHAHAHAHA thing. Oh look, I just did!

By Liberal Texas Democrat

June 23, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

Taking my gondola to town so’s I can avoid the onslaught of “You libs just can’t wait to see ‘merica drownin’ in global warming so much you’re trying to jinx everything”, and other sparkling repartee.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

* ^ ^ ^So if Lucko doesn’t have his cubicle cleared out in a week we can safely assume that Andy is totally full of as usually.*

Republicans are becoming laughable in their increasingly desperate attempts to convince themselves that they aren’t about to be handed their heads in the midterms.

Wag the dog, Bushbots. Beat those drums and ruffle your feathers. Parting is such sweet sorrow and we’ll miss the entertainment you are providing us when you must crawl home with the voters mandate and swallow your false pride. Please check back in with us from time to time and let us know what the taste of crow is like!

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Are the streets flooded in Manhattan because of the polar ice caps melting, or is it because of the rain that flooded parts of the Midwest and Northeast yesterday?! Hmmmmm! Is this cartoon mocking global warming or is it not!?

I guess we’ll wait and see how the loonies react!

By the way @@, if you are here today, I’ve never posted under a different name. I usually tend to lurk, but felt like getting in the mix yesterday. You ever play “Double Dutch?” That’s my existence here. The ropes were just right yesterday.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

Hmmmm… 7 Commenters so far and over 500 votes posted. Anybody think we’re being scammed?

By Goldie

June 23, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

Thanks Lucko— as usual your editorial hits the bulls-eye. And as usual, right-wing extremists here will not appreciate any editorial you make for a long period of time. They especially don’t like the suggestions of making ANY changes for the betterment of America. It’s all “stay the course” no matter what path we’re being led down.

By Mike

June 23, 2006 08:34 AM | Link to this

Wag the Dog, as for the taste of crow, the left should know what that taste like already. Gore lost a nearly unlosable election in 2000 and Kerry lost in 2004 when everyone said Bush was done. Every election cycle we hear about impending doom for the Republicans. Yet the Democrats keep losing elections. Until you win back either house of the Congress you might want to keep your mouth shut.

By @@

June 23, 2006 08:36 AM | Link to this

I forgot to comment on today’s cartoon named TODAY’S CARTOON.

Of course ml would want the “Gore-y Details”, he’s an extremist afterall.

Issues on the environment need to be addressed with a thoughtful and reasonable approach. Promoting hysteria which forces the hysterical to massively run into the ocean would cause an immediate rise in the sea level, thereby flooding Manhattan tomorrow.

Reasonable thought is a term ml can’t understand, proven by yesterday’s cartoon fiasco.

By Goldie

June 23, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Hopefully, a good link to an Op-Ed in the NY Times today:

The Road From My Lai

By Liar liar

June 23, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin’s comment(ed) that the discovery of the two mutilated soldiers’ bodies is a “grim reminder of the price we’re paying for a failed policy in Iraq.”

It sure is.

The implications are especially profound for poor and inner-city black kids. Starting at a disadvantage, they have the most to gain from an introduction to the world of work skills.

Sure do. They can learn that “honest” labor leaves them squat, leaving them just enough disposable income to learn all about the profit sucking execs at Enron, Halliburton and HealthSouth.

Senator Reid defended the gifts, saying that they would never influence his position on the bill “

First, they weren’t tickets and they weren’t gifts. And even if they were, Reid voted against the interests that allegedly “gave” him the “tickets”. Republicans are MUCH better at corruption. See Duke Cunningham!

By Pot to Kettle (The original)

June 23, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

@@,

I wonder if the rest of the AJC’s editorial staff has been directed to take such an uncontroversial and advertiser-friendly approach?

It’s also possible that Luckovich was in such a rush from having to go into post-fatwa hiding that he didn’t have time to come up with a title for the cartoon.

I may agree to stop hounding him if the AJC agrees to finally print the original Mohammed cartoons. Or, if Cynthia Tucker offers her resignation. Or, if Mike will appear on O’Reilly with panties on his head.

I need a negotiator! Any volunteers?

By Pot to Kettle (The original)

June 23, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Judging from the “poll numbers” we extremists are now clearly in the majority.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

P.S. Is that the same New York Times that once again released classified information that harms our national security? Maybe James Risen et al can personally check out the conditions in Gitmo.

By George

June 23, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

I’ll give cartoon boy a week to clear his cubicle out.

Andy, there is a reason why ML has two Pulitzer prizes and you are an unemployed keyboard blogger typing in your mother’s basement.

And I’m sure that you will never figure out what the reason is either?

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

Mikey, since I was one of the idiots that voted for King George in 2000 and 2004, the only crow I have tasted is that which I got from the Republican monumental expansion of government, total disregard for expenditures, erosion of personal liberties, and complete lack of responsibility. I’d have to say that the taste is quite bitter. I fully intend not to have third-helpings of the same!

By Rednecks - America's Al Qaeda

June 23, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this

Since the insurgents are beheading and castrating American soldiers - why not send all these brainless drickless neo-con bloggers over to Iraq to fight?

No harm, no foul.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

Inconvenient Truth has only taken in 7 mil??

Aren’t people interested in your mindless hysteria?

Don’t they like being lied to?

You reckon they have real lifes?

And thoughts of their own?

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this

No wonder people give Rednecks such a hard time!

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this

By George June 23, 2006 08:48 AM I’ll give cartoon boy a week to clear his cubicle out. Andy, there is a reason why ML has two Pulitzer prizes and you are an unemployed keyboard blogger typing in your mother’s basement.

Bragging on the pulitzer prize is an obvious sign of cluelessness and a precursor to Bush derangement syndrome.

Did I not just tag you with incredible accuracy?

By @@

June 23, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

Pot to Kettle:

Let’s see. A frat-boy with panties on his head. Nnoooooooooo! That would be inhumane but panties perched atop one’s severed neck would be acceptable to ml, but I’m guessing ml would afford himself the privelege of appearing fully intact and he could, because he is being protected from such atrocities by our brave soldiers.

Think B-4 You Speak:

Maybe I should change my name to “Dog Wags Tail”, I could deal with the profanity that might ensue as a result.

By regulator

June 23, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this

Great cartoon Mike, I guess the wingnuts will even argue with a statistical fact, earth is hottest it has been in 400 years.

By Getitright

June 23, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this

Mikey has got to go. His cartoon yesterday proved that he has ZERO credibility as any kind of legitimate commentator on events. What a slimey excuse for a human being. AJC - wake-up and see what is happening. Your anti-American crusade is wearing thin and Mikey is the voice of your desperation. You need a “Change of Direction”. Redeploy Mikey to Iraq and offer him to the terrorsist as their new minister of propaganda. He certainly has proved his effectiveness here as one who can weaken a country’s moral. Maybe then he’ll see the difference between the way we treat prisoners and the way the terrorists torture, kill and mutilate victims. Hint: “Prisoners” are living, “Victims” are dead.

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this

@@ - what does changing your name have to do with ensuing profanity. Besides, you don’t want anyone to confuse you with Wag the Dog.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this

7 men charged in alleged U.S. terror plot

WASHINGTON - A group of young men seized in a Miami warehouse have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring with al-Qaida to commit acts of violence in the United States, including blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower.

The seven individuals indicted by a federal grand jury were taken into custody Thursday when authorities swarmed the warehouse in the Liberty City area, removing a metal door with a blow torch. The indictment also alleges plans to blow a federal building in Miami in conjunction with the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Didn’t somebody say something about “fighting the terrorists overseas so we won’t have to fight them here at home”? We can now see how well that one is working out for us too, can’t we? When you Wag the Dog, you’re bound to get fleas!

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this

The Chicago Tribune, Thank You Very Much:

We can, of course, leave whenever we wish. To do so would betray the Iraqi officials and citizens who trust us to shepherd them to safety. It would tell every terror group, every future enemy, how to defeat America next. And, at a time when rogue states such as North Korea and Iran need us internationally weak rather than strong, it would signal that in future crises our saber will rattle feebly, like a death rasp in the night.

The American men and women who are fighting this war do so with one eye over their shoulders. We have argued for three years whether the timetable for bringing them home should be set by politicians in Washington or by their success in the field. Once again, through our legislators, we have voted decisively for the latter.

By Harry Reid

June 23, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the support Liar, liar and as long as nobody looks into the reason several of my colleagues changed their votes right after my big time boxing adventure, our secret will remain safe.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this

Victor Hansen, National Review, Thank You Very Much:

Indeed, the more our own troops are tortured and exploded, the more our own media will rush to judgment on Haditha to assure the world, before an inquiry has even finished, that the U.S. Marine Corps murdered innocents. The more non-uniformed Islamists behead civilians and torture innocents, the more international “rights” organizations will accuse the United States of humanitarian violations in Guantanamo Bay — at least up until the point of calling for the return of such killers to their native countries.

But in the longer-term war, the Islamists have real problems. Their acquisition of weapons is always parasitical and can’t quite keep up with constant Western innovation, whether in the form of drones that take out terrorists sitting in front of their TVs, or anti-ballistic missile systems that might nullify Ahmadinejad’s nuclear blackmail.

By George

June 23, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this

Yep Andy, Bush derangement syndrome pretty much describes it. We can check you into Ridgeview today if you are ready to work on that?

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this

By Wag the Dog June 23, 2006 09:14 AM 7 men charged in alleged U.S. terror plot

It really does take a blooming idiot, and I’m probably giving you more credit then you deserve, to take a victory in the war on terror and rub it in America’s face.

It kind of makes everything you say suspect, doesn’t it?

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

National Review, kicking a-ss:

How do you arrange a marriage, insist on a beheading for adultery, conduct a proper honor killing of your daughter, or calmly call Jews “pigs and apes” when the wider Westernizing world broadcast into your living room, car, and workplace thinks you are some groveling zombie? Can an Airbus or Compaq be constructed according to the principles of Sharia? How can you demand amoxicillin as your birthright, but hate the system of free thinking and rationalism that created it? Does the Islamist despise equally Chinese internet pornography; does he issue fatwas against South Korean video games; does he ostracize Latin American evangelical Protestants, or burn down Bollywood? In the short-term maybe; in the long-term it is not so easy.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

National Review:

A Cindy Sheehan or Noam Chomsky (and Cartoon Boy) still resonates with a minority of the public because he can; thanks to Western capitalism and freedom, both jet at will around the globe, live comfortably, and count on the tolerance of the Western bourgeoisie society that they so roundly condemn. But should the Islamist endanger that comfortable embryo — as they almost did on 9/11 — then folks like these would be as quickly forgotten as were Neville Chamberlain and Charles Lindbergh by 1941.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this

10 killed in Sunni mosque bombing in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb struck a Sunni mosque northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was slain earlier this month.

Curfew imposed in Baghdad amid fighting

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew Friday after insurgents set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.

U.S. and Iraqi forces also clashed with insurgents in southern Baghdad.

The prime minister ordered everyone off the streets of the capital from 2 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday. The order came at around noon, when many residents were in prayer, and sent many rushing home to beat the curfew.

In other violence, a bomb struck a Sunni mosque in a town northeast of Baghdad, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was slain earlier this month, police said.

The explosion occurred in front of the Grand Hibhib mosque in Diyala province, according to the provincial joint coordination center.

In the southern city of Basra, a car bomb ripped through a market and nearby gas station, killing at least five people and wounding 15, including two policemen police said.

At least 19 other deaths were reported in Baghdad.

What a wonderfully FREE society we have created in Iraq where the citizens now have to live under curfew. Never fear, though, King Cheney and his Court Jester George are to the rescue and the insurrgents are in they’re LAST, LAST, LAST, LAST, LAST, LAST, LAST, LAST THROES.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this

Can’t someone alert DU and get the DUmmies to swarm the poll on “Todays Cartoon”? Surely Midori…errr CatWoman and Harpy Emma can catch up a 200 vote deficit.

Hard hitting title on the “Al Gore-Gondola Pilot” cartoon mikie.

By Goldie

June 23, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

Potbelly to Kettle— let’s see, your “poll numbers” are up to about 35% now? Wow, that’s really impressive! You should be pleased with the progress your extremist view is making in America these days!

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

National Review:

In both wars, we were told our actions would hurt us in the eyes of the world. And so they did. Unfortunate. But we ended up as the exceptional nation, Number One, more influential than any nation in history, the City on a Hill, hearing anti-American language which boiled down to “Yankee go home and take me with you.”

The basic truth about our mission in Iraq is the same as that about Vietnam: We’re doing something important and positive in the world.

Be proud.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

RW,

I can’t tell you too many times: Your’e an idiot.

a hypocritical one at that.

I don’t know who this Emma woman is that you speak of — is she the one who had all those morons from Little Green Footballs come over here yesterday to spew their mindless b.s. and attack Mike’s poll?

After all, as we all know, you’re a poll whore yourself, aren’t you? In addition to being a hypocritical idiot.

By Krista

June 23, 2006 09:45 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, loud music and snarling dogs is comparable to gouging out eyes and hacking off limbs? You should be ashamed of yourself but it’s pretty obvious that you have no shame.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

Pot to Kettle,

Glad to see you’re back after the AJC tried to lock you in a dark dreary dungeaon at 4:10PM yesterday, hoping to never see or hear from you again.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

RW, AKA Rick the D*ck from Norcross,

do you seriously think Mike L’s function worry about the name and typeface of his cartoon?

Isn’t that what the typeface people are for?

Idiot.

By Mike

June 23, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Midori, you show your true colors again today. All you want to do is call names. No debate on the issues. I don’t think I have ever seen you make a substantive arguement on an important issue.

By Typeface People

June 23, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

Watchoo talkin’ bout Midori?

By the way, I believe ml does have a role in naming his scribblings.

By Brian Jones

June 23, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

My predictions for the comments today… -holds an envelope to his head-

Republicans bashing Luckovich and the Democrats for being blind Gore supporters and nutcases if they think that global warming is happening at all. Toss in a little questionable debunking of the many studies that show global temperatures are on the rise due to human intervention and I think we have something.

Democrats blindly complimenting Luckovich for “Getting right to the heart of the issue.” Wailing at the Republicans for being ignorant brainless trolls who would send the world into the gutter for Bush’s agenda. Add in a complete inability to consider the posibility that the planet warms and cools and cycles and maybe we’re just in an upswing, and the open(read narrow) views of the Dems are complete.

Christian Fundamentalists? A little bit of biblical fatalism a la “Jesus is coming soon so you better not worry about how hot its getting and look for a way to stay out of the fire.” No solutions offered or concern for the issue since apparently we’ll all be dead soon.

Wait… new things coming in. Nope, everyone will probably just keep ticking back and forth about the comic from yesterday, bringing in no new arguments and continuing to sound like slobering morons. Left, Right, Liberals, and Conservatives… all just tearing at each other and getting no where.

Me personally? I’ll probably opine for a while and then fire out my opinion on global warming, then wait to nitpick everything I feel like nitpicking.

Global Warming? Yeah, I think part of it is human interference in the environment. But to be honest we aren’t completely out of the last ice age. Glaciers don’t really stick around past ice ages for too long, so geologically speaking the planet still has a little warming of its own to do. Though I do feel we’ve put a little push on it and sped it up some. Humans still get the moron tag for this though… we should have future proofed our beach front property.

By Steve C

June 23, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

These whiny, bombastic so-called conservatives that are calling for Mike’s head need to get back in their SUVs, pick up their cell phones, and turn on their AM radios again so they can be calmed by the soothing sounds of Rush and Shawn babbling their typical nonsense. Do they ever complain when talk radio hosts — local and national — suggest that terrorists blowing up the NY Times bldg is OK (what I heard this a.m. from the spineless little wimp on 640 AM)? The USA does need to be held to high standards — be it for humane treatment of prisoners or how we wage war.

By @@

June 23, 2006 10:01 AM | Link to this

RW:

You know, ml may be renowned in his scribbling abilities, but obviously his ability to deliver his thoughts in words has proven far-more difficult for him. So…the name of today’s cartoon is TODAY’S CARTOON.

I could’ve been really mean with the word “difficult”, but I’m n-n-not as mean and heartless as ml.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

Anyone else find it impossible to wade through POT TO KETTLE’S italicized text? It’s torture to wade through, and I’ll bet he’s making some succinct and brilliantly constructed points.

Too bad nobody can read it. Hey POT TO KETTLE: Who says Americans dont torture? You are torturing us with a very curiousity inducing technique of seemingly being like a Thomas Paine and weeding our loyalists and encouraging patriots, but we’ll never know, will we?

I honestly cant read it, Pal.

But whatever your writing, Good one! Bravo! Oh, that last point was a real humdinger, sir!….this will make hillary furious! Oh yes! Kerry will projectile vomit when he gets a load of your retort!!
You’re a genius, sir!

GO POT TO KETTLE GO POT TO KETTLE UH HUH UH HUH

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Well there you go Brian Jones. No need for you to hang around, now is there? lol.

Sometimes I catch my self being a little simple, in that I like to think things just are. It bores me to try to think too deeply into issues because sometimes the possibilities are endless. I know you don’t care, I just thought a little preface was in order for my global warming contribution.

But couldn’t it be possible that the Earth is a little warmer these days because of all of the trees we are replacing with concrete and asphalt? Afterall, it is cooler in the shade.

By Mike

June 23, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

Steve, these whiny, bombastic so-called liberals need to do the same thing, except listen to Air America, which they might not get because it is getting dropped since its ratings are so low. But hey what are you going to do.

By David

June 23, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich shines the light of truth and irony with a torture cartoon, and all the roaches come out of the woodwork to scream treason. How frickin’ hilarious.

You Bushies are so far removed from reality. I have a cure for that though; it’s called the draft.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this

You know something? Brian Jones is right. WE ARE BECOMMING TOO PREDICTABLE. A funny man draws a stick figure cartoon and we all turn on each other like rabid lunatics?
Brian Jones can read today’s cartoon and predict accurately the next 500 comments from total strangers?

No, no, no, this wont do. Comeon! Lets break it up. I know! A toga party!!!

TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA

By Midori

June 23, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

Mike,

sit and spin.

then repeat.

go scurry back into the darkness over at little green footballs with the rest of your cockroach buds.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:15 AM | Link to this

But @@, if he called it tomorrow’s cartoon, wouldn’t Brian Jones have predicted it today, and then wouldn’t that then make it today’s cartoon? ANd what about the people on the west coast who are still in yesterday if you account for all the time zones and stuff, (and the fact that they’re under the facist rule of iron dictator Arnold).

Cool, I just had a deja vu.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

I apologize to RW. I thought he was the worlds biggest idiot.

However, Mike has surpassed him.

A round of applause for Mike.

He even has the nerve to call someone “whiny” and “bombastic”. Wonder how long it took him to figure out the correct spelling.

Another round of applause is called for here.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

I apologize to RW. I thought he was the worlds biggest idiot.

However, Mike has surpassed him.

A round of applause for Mike.

He even has the nerve to call someone “whiny” and “bombastic”. Wonder how long it took him to figure out the correct spelling.

Another round of applause is called for here.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Vatican Lectures,

Everyone is obviously free to contribute and post any way they want, but one thing we started doing in the very early days of this blog was to use italics when quoting someone else’s words or an excerpt from an article you were linking. It’s one of the very few things right and left have ever agreed on here.

Frankly it’s a lot harder to wade through when someone copies another’s post, putting quotes around it, and then launches into their comment.

Pot to Kettle is one of the most conscientious posters we have ever had in making sure that his words are separate from those he is quoting.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

It seems the Iraq government will propose amnesty for the insurgents and a fixed timetable for troop withdrawal Sunday.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this

By Vatican Lectures June 23, 2006 10:04 AM Anyone else find it impossible to wade through POT TO KETTLE’S italicized text? It’s torture to wade through, and I’ll bet he’s making some succinct and brilliantly constructed points.

Italics indicates that it is someone else’s text, I do not work for the New York Times so I will always give credit where it’s due, instead of plagiarizing as they do.

I also include in nearly every post a link to the original article which, if you click on it, will not be in italics.

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

Getalife - Which is exactly why we should have blown the dogsh-it out of that place a long time ago!

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

Point of order: Air America in Atlanta always had alot of loud static that obliterated programming and persisted all day long. Now that the programming has been changed by the new owners, static is gone. It comes in crystal clear. I am formally calling for a citizens arrest warrant on the clown who was jamming Air America. That’s a federal offense, baby, and just part of the illegal ways that dittoheadwounds win elections.

By Speakthetruth

June 23, 2006 10:23 AM | Link to this

I can’t understand why everyone is so angry about this cartoon, it speaks the truth. We are facing a crisis with global warming. People on the right think if you ignore things, like the war in Iraq, it will work itself out. I tell you it’s not going to work itselt out, it’s only going to get worst. Soon we will all be living on lake houses.

By Steve

June 23, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

Please provide the scientific proof that the current cycle of global warming is caused by humans.

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this

By the way Getalife - Good luck with this one, but I think they are proposing amnesty for the “resistence,” which they think is different than “insurgency.” Not sure whose job it is to sort that out, but I wish him/her luck.

By David

June 23, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this

So many Republicans remind me of the mayor of Amity Island in Jaws when the oceanographer told him that he’d “ignore this particular problem until it swam up and bit him on the a$$.”

By @@

June 23, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

TB-4YS?:

I’ll go with you on the asphalt replacing trees issue even though I’m not overly fond of trees.

Too many are disappearing when they don’t have to. Subdivisions look better with trees and there are a lot of new subdivisions going up around me. My tree infested lot is an oasis in the desert.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

But POT TO KETTLE, you ask too much of us to obtain your pontifications. We have to fumble around with the mouse, and the control key? Just summarize briefly an opponents point, and then slam them, (if that’s what you’re doing, I dont know, I cant read it.)

Remember this fact: Our attention span is maybe five sentences max. ANd that’s if it’s easy to read. I can read about six words of italicized text before I simply move on to the next comment.

Your mind is a terrible thing to waste, and dammit, it’s being wasted on a technicality.

But I always encourage the wasted, so, here: ANOTHER INCREDIBLE POINT, SIR! OH PLEASE REPEAT THAT ONE, SIR, THAT WAS A GOOD ONE, REALLY IT WAS. OH DO! DO REPEAT IT SIR!!!!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this

Well, W said they wanted us to stay so I guess he was lying again.

I wonder how Kerry, Feingold,Murtha, etc… knew that this was coming and the GOP did not?

By Mike

June 23, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this

Midori, thanks for proving my point. It must be hard going through life thinking you are smarter than everyone and if someone disagrees with you they must be an idiot. No wonder you can’t comprehend contranian arguements.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

RW, I’m grateful to GOD that your eyesight is like an eagles and you can discern peculiar texts. I, however, am in the majority of newspaper reading baby boomers with glasses. We simply cant make it out without torturing ourselves, and leaning in, and fumbling with mouses, and control keys, and shouting at our wives.

Now you’ve made me do it. When my wife reads that she’s gonna clobber me. Thanx alot pal.

Curses.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Speaksthetruth,

It’s really a stretch to say that everyone is angry about “Todays Cartoon”. I don’t think there is too much debate about whether the earth is slightly warmer right now. The debate is over whether it’s cyclical or man made. Considering that Mars is experiencing the same climate change we are and currently has two vehicles, I’m leaning toward cyclical.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Rumsfeld will squash that amnesty if he has to torture every single elected member of the Iraqi Parliament!!!

GO RUMMY!

WE’RE STAYING!

KILL MUSLIMS!!

UH HUH!!!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

The draft marks the first time the Iraqi Government has endorsed a fixed timeline for the withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq, a key demand of the Sunni insurgency.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Vatican Lectures,

I’ll take up a collection to fix your eyes if there is any chance it will get you to read more and type less.

By @@

June 23, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Now how can one Lecture from the Vatican while practicing Deja-Vu-Who? Somebody, call the Pope.

By Mike

June 23, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

getalife, it would be nice if life were that simple wouldn’t. The PM of Iraq told Bush they wanted us to stay until they could provide security for themselves. Do you think they might be proposing their timeline based on when they think they will have enough forces to secure themselves? Or do you only want to look at the angle that conincides with your political belief system.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

What? GET A LIFE? What did you say? I barely made out this: the draftman fisted the legsy goat….

Are you posting pop up goat porn ads, sir?

You are so busted.

Perve ALERT.

PERVE ALERT.

By Reality Czech

June 23, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, if you vote Republican and own energy company stock, then “global warming” is at best, junk science, but probably a big lie perpetrated by stupid tree huggers to get Democrats elected, right?

And if you think scientists have some idea what they’re talking about, then you can’t dismiss the idea that national policies that ease up on polluters in the name of capitalism are harmful to us and future generations, right?

You can argue all you want about WHY, but it does not change the fact that WE WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE RESULTS! Hello? Why not stop the childish mud slinging and start dealing with reality: Billions of people live on the earth’s coastlines! Oceans are warming! Stuff is changing. There WILL BE issues — wouldn’t it be better to work together before the next disaster hits?

Nah. That would require more maturity than you’re willing to exert.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

Hi, @@! You know, I put a xerox copy of a deja vu in a time capsule and buried it in quicksand near the international dateline on the day you fall-back the clocks…..and I havent had to change my underwear since.

By Steve

June 23, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Hey, Wag the Dog.

Do you read what you write? You really sound very ignorant.

Clinton allowed you and the other children to behave badly without consequence for eight years. Your candy was taken away when decency came back to tone you down and now you’re mad and your temper tantrums make you look silly.

Learn to understand logic and truth and you will see an improvement in your overall outlook on American life, it’s freedoms found no where else and most important of all, the fact that there are bad people in the world that want to destroy our way of life in America.

Now stop crying and grow up.

By regulator

June 23, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Kinda interesting that these successes in Iraq are all coming right before the elections.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

Mike,

I believe our political system is corrupt and out of touch with the people due to lobbyist control.

This includes both parties and my hope is Sunday they announce this plan to go forward and remove some our troops.

By test

June 23, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this

test

By Mike

June 23, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

getalife, in case you didn’t notice yesterday Gen George Casey, the commander of all troops in Iraq, announced that there would be continued troop withdrawals throughout this year. All Americans want the troops home as soon as possible. The question is due we bring them home before Iraq can secure themselves. If the Iraqi government says that in 18 months or 18 days they are good to go, then as a soverign government we have to respect that and withdraw our troops.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

regulator,

This is June 23rd, election day is November 7th and most of the candidates aren’t even named yet. Take off the tinfoil and get some sun, you won’t really need the hat until after Labor Day.

By @@

June 23, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

Vatican Lectures:

Good, can we borrow your “dirty drahs” to put on ml’s head for his O’Reilly appearance. He’ll be smilin’ and smellin’, I can assure you that. Smilin’ because they’ll be on his head, not his neck…and smellin’ cause he’s accustomed to the stink of the AJC. He’ll feel right at home.

When O’Reilly put his feet to the fire, it’ll intensify the odor with an upward draft.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 11:02 AM | Link to this

I also believe this plan will leave Al Qaeda in Iraq hung out to dry and they will run like the Taliban and regroup somewhere else.

It only takes a handful of terrorists to pull off an attack anywhere in the world and will not stop.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this

Mike,

He did not announce troop withdrawals, he said he would have to speak to the Iraqi government about it.

Which press conference did you watch?

By Daniel

June 23, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

The 876th Engineering Battalion has returned from Iraq. The 876th is out of Southwestern Pa. and serves from the Congressional District of John Murtha. Staff Sgt. Randy Meyers 46 yrs. of age said: “I’m not sure we’re doing a whole lot of good. Everybody thinks we are. We’re trying to, but we’re not going to change what they want to do, and if they don’t want to change. They’re not gonna.” Sgt. 1st Class George Wozniak said of Jack Murtha: “He’s definitely for a strong military and he definitely supports the troops” Bonnie Shable was more outspoken. She is the wife of Sgt 1st Class James Shable a VietNam Vet and Iraq War Vet, Bonnie said: “I would like them out of there. I think we’ve done what we’re going to do over there and it’s time for everybody to come home”.

By Reminder

June 23, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

RW, um…

For a list of candidates, please show up at your voting precinct on July 18 for the Georgia Primary Election. DUH!

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

@@ - I prefer my wooded lot as well. It’s not fun to drink on the deck when it’s 150 and sunny in the middle of the day. Trees would be perfect if they didn’t house bugs though!

WAY off subject, but I tortured myself and read some FoxNews this morning and actually, for once, agreed with Neil Cavuto. The heat is doing strange things these days. Not to mention killing my lawn.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Reminder,um…

July 18th is when the people in Georgia pick their candidates. DUH!! INDEED!

By @@

June 23, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

TB-4YS?:

I’m gonna go with the cyclical theory. I stated earlier that a thoughtful reasonable approach is warranted. Not the hysterical “Gore-y” details put out by Al. Those may cause mankind to overreact possibly creating even greater unforeseen problems resulting from too much interference with the grand scheme.

Your lawn…mine too. But like I said, I’m into recycling so maybe we can roll and smoke the grass to alleviate the fears. Just thinkin’ how I can help you.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

Is this criminal err…unindicted co-conspirator the one the loudmouth punk is talking about?

You can even watch the video where Mothra holds out for a better bribe!

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

@@ - Ahh … the grand scheme. I prefer man not mess with it because we have an amazing knack for f*ing things up. And if they did happen to fix it, what would the loonies have to bi-tch and moan about?! People all around the world would have no cause.

Maybe everyone should roll up our dead grass and smoke it. Then everyone call relax. Although, the resulting headache wouldn’t be nice.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

Did anyone else notice the increased level of detail in today’s unnamed cartoon, more so than the usual stupid mindless shading that your boy adds as a hurried afterthought, his signature lack of pride in his force fed political messages.

No, look at the beautifully trimmed buildings, the brilliance of the Manhattan skyline portrayed with such minutia. It’s almost as though he was trying to escape from something as he drew it, I wonder what horrible thing was stalking his reality, causing him to seek solace in his work?

Will he spend this much time on future cartoons or will he sink back into the MoveOn Dot Org doldrums so obvious from his previous displays?

Or will this Orwellian beast haunt cartoon boy for the remainder of his haunted days!?! How long will he endure such tortures?!

This is Rove’s fault! The man has been unleashed by the White House and he’s exacting his revenge on his former tormentors!

Rove made him call the Pot a Kettle!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this

RW,

Nice try to smear my grandfather:

“The FBI who taped the entire conversation knows damn well no money changed hands.”

By finch

June 23, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this

Those 7 Miami guys charged with plotting to bomb the Sears Tower and the FBI’s Miami building sure ain’t your stereotypical Muslim terrorist:

“(Attorney General Alberto) Gonzales said that “the convergence of globalization and technology has created a new brand of terrorism. Today terrorist threats come from smaller more loosely defined cells not affiliated with al-Qaida but who are inspired by a violent jihadist message, and left unchecked these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaida.”

Translation: The 7 (including 5 US citizens) had never met anyone from al Qaeda. They called themselves “Black Muslims” but had no affiliation with other Black Muslims or Islam in general. A little cult of wanna be’s too stupid to realize that their behavior made them obvious surveillance targets.

The bad news: Little gangs of nuts can make very dangerous plans.

By Reminder

June 23, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this

RW, um… they’re still “candidates” and you’re still an a-s-s-hole.

By Dusty

June 23, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

A few comments, fellow folks and freakouts..

Luckovich can scribble gondolas in Manhattan or the Mona Lisa with a toothpick to make us forget yesterday’s morbid mocking. It won’t work. Luckovich is a traitor. Therefore he has lost all credibility. He is just another punk betraying his country.

Vatican—get an appointment with your opthamologist. PLease!!

Midori—so what’s new? Nothing so far. Take off your army boots and relax.

Gondolas?? My trees are so dry, they welcome every doggie that stops by.

Andy, RW, OO and Mike—keep reminding some of these people that they live in America. We have a choice few who seem to forget their citizenship.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this

Looks like the WaPo has posted Mike’s torture toon.

By Reminder

June 23, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

Finch, good information, thanks! We should totally beware of the little gang of nuts who spew their hate of this blog every day! Or… is it the gang with little nuts?

By @@

June 23, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this

finch:

But ain’t it nice to know that Homeland Security is on the case and able to thwart the little “buggers’” plans.

Now I have got to go buy a couple of chickens.

See ya!

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this

Good one, POT TO KETTLE!!

I could read it, and I was right: You are worth reading. ( Luchovich did add detail. He better stop reading the reactions to his cartoons and just assume that everyone hates them, except me and Alec Baldwin, of course).

Why do I get the feeling that if you were on the Pulitzer Prize awarding committee then Luchovich woulda got the set of steak knives???

By Goldie

June 23, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

Potbelly, RW and some others who don’t know that John Murtha is a real American hero— here’s how some returning troops feel about Murtha and your Iraq War:

Troops Echo Frustration Over War In Iraq

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

finch,

Look, Rick found WMD’d in Iraq

LOL.

By @@

June 23, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

I particularly like the characterization top left in purple…hmmmmm…purple. Anyway, that is our ml, “SoDamn Insane”.

And look, NO CARTOON NAME. Looks like everybody may be smarter than ml.

By Goldie

June 23, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Now Geraldo Rivera is claiming that he’s seen more “combat action” than John Kerry — yeah, and I’m sure he earned his medal from Faux News for revealing our troop locations during our invasion of Iraq in 2003… a real right-wing hero, that Geraldo!

By @@

June 23, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

Best effort here before chicken purchase.

“BORN IN THE U.S.A….I WAS BORN….IN THE U.S.A.” Oops, never mind, that was “Spring-a-Spleen”. Had chicken on my mind.

O.K., I’ll do better next time.

I sure missed you yesterday.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this

@@,

They do not name their cartoons over there but enlarge them to see better detail.

It looks like he may have been angry drawing this one and this may have something to do with it

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

Wait until they find out he wanted to sell them for some big time Arab oil money, but the offer wasn’t big enough.

I guess Abscam is kind of old though. Wait until they find out getalife’s grandfather was taking bribes from the same guys Duke Cunningham was. Of course he gets to go to trial first.

Reminder,

Would you mind telling us how many primary candidates in Georgia are running on the Iraq war? You might also be interested to know that people outside of Georgia are very common on this blog.

finch,

Why is every single success labeled by you as a tiny insignificant thing? Let’s say these guys did blow up the Sears Tower. Would you then say the Bush administration should get a pass because this was just a rag tag band of wannabes? Try not to lie in your answer as hard as that is for you.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

“Sheik Mansur”, a top Al Qaeda in Iraq, leader has begun his eternal dirt nap courtesy of the United States military.

Start the whining about what a nobody he was or if was somebody Chimpy created him, losers.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

I have to type this before I keel over dead.

I agree with you!!! Geraldo should have been fired on the spot for giving away our troop location. Fox News should have quit trying to appease you moonbats by hiring left wing wackos like Jerry Rivers.

By Raisin Bran

June 23, 2006 12:20 PM | Link to this

Why is it that these comment sections never stay on topic? Screw all the politcal rhetoric and talk about the damned cartoon. If I want to read crap about politics, I’ll pick up a comic book.

By Daniel

June 23, 2006 12:23 PM | Link to this

O’Reilly did the same thing to us. He said he was in comnbat and a Vet. Then he said well, he was a reporter and he was nearby when someone else was in combat. Oops, then he aid he really wasn’t a Vet, either. But he kne someone who was! Cowards filled with Komputer Kourage!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:25 PM | Link to this

Here you go ml

By Reminder

June 23, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

RW, would you mind telling us why you’re such an a-s-s-h-o-l-e? Don’t you get any lovin’ at home? Maybe if you weren’t such an a-s-s-h-o-l-e, you could have real conversation instead of a perpetual pick-fest. Whatever valid points you may have are completely lost in your overwhelming “holi-ness.”

By Dusty

June 23, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Did you notice that WaPo posted Luckovich’s cartoon under “comics”?

That’s Ok but obituaries might be better for Lucko’s scribbling. You know. DOA—dead wrong on arrival.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this

The only “combat” Geraldo has seen was in divorce court.

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

I would like to volunteer to escort the “Fantastic 7” to Gitmo. Only problem is, they require at least two people. Anyone want to ride shotgun (literally)?!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

Raisin Bran,

W said there is no global warming so we should believe him.

Not.

There ya go.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 12:33 PM | Link to this

Wonder if “Reminder” is RW’s wife/girlfriend: she certainly has him pegged.

By Think B-4 You Speak!

June 23, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Dusty - That’s funny. I kind of liked the cartoon despite people’s desire to overreact — just a little!

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Now the torture toon is getting more readers. Rally the troops and bash The WaPo like ya’ll did yesterday. Where is today’s outrage? LOL.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

I see Bush has been spreading his freedom and democracy again

By John Buchanan

June 23, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

Seems the Bushies dominate locals there too. One day we’ll have to face , and pay for, all the (you call it !) they spawned.

By @@

June 23, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this

RW/Goldie:

I will gather with you on the banks of “the” River Jerry and we shall all shout “AMEN”.

Has anyone ever wondered why when opposites agree (RW/Goldie), the slash leans right?

It is an omen. Amen?

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this

Reminder,

The problem is that educating idiots like you is a never ending job.

Midori,

I thought you were my girlfriend.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 12:43 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

I think their ‘batsignal’ is broken from yesterday’s overuse.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

Bush Responds Angrily to Criticism by Europeans

VIENNA — President Bush responded angrily Wednesday to Europe’s differing views over the war in Iraq and the U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, even as he won renewed expressions of unity from the European Union on nuclear nonproliferation.

European leaders at a U.S.-EU summit here reaffirmed the need to halt Iran’s uranium enrichment program and to contain North Korea’s arms program.

With surveys showing a growing animosity in Europe toward the United States amid fears that its anti-terrorism policies and the Iraq war are endangering global stability, the president lashed out during a news conference, raising his voice and several times using the word “absurd” to describe the criticism.

Japan just withdrew its’ “coalition” troops from Iraq and the “Uniter” continues to bless America with friends and allies the world over!

By Midori

June 23, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

RW,

You shattered our vows by continuing to support Der Chimperor.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this

Midori,

One day and no resolve. I think they had premature spewing and their real battle on the torture toon should have been spewed today directed at the WaPo.

By Cindy

June 23, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this

Goldie, Great article at 11:57. You shut up the neo’s: the only comment they can make on these returning troops is how unpatriotic and anti-American they are.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this

Iraq Coalition Troops

Countries which had troops in or supported operations in Iraq at one point but have pulled out since: Nicaragua (Feb. 2004); Spain (late-Apr. 2004); Dominican Republic (early-May 2004); Honduras (late-May 2004); Philippines (~Jul. 19, 2004); Thailand (late-Aug. 2004); New Zealand (late Sep. 2004); Tonga (mid-Dec. 2004) Hungary (end Dec. 2004); Portugal (mid-Feb. 2005); Moldova (Feb. 2005);

Countries planning to withdraw from Iraq: Poland (starting Jan.05 and completed by end.05(?)); Bulgaria (end of 2005, depending on circumstances); Ukraine (entire contingent, in stages until ~ Oct. 2005)

Countries which have reduced or are planning to reduce their troop commitment: Ukraine (-200 during Fall04 rotation); Moldova (reduced contingent to 12 around mid-2004); Norway (reduced from ~150 to 10 late-Jun.04, early Jul.04); Bulgaria (-50, Dec.04); Poland (-700, Feb.05); Italy (-300 expeted in Sept. 05(decrease appearently began in mid-Aug. 05)); Netherlands (reduced from ~1,345 to 4; ~Mar. 2005)

Looks like the rest of the world has “Cut and Won”, why can’t we?

By Buy Danish

June 23, 2006 12:54 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Now that you’ve told us that there is no difference between Al Qaeda and Americans, here’s your chance to chose your torture should you happen to be kidnapped some day. One can never be too prepared nowadays!:

1) panties or paper bag on your head, barking dog, naked pyramid, waterboarding exactly as used by our Navy Seals as part of their training.

2) gouged eyes, mutilated genitals stuffed in your mouth (which is slightly better than the common practice of female genital mutilation from the religion of peace), beheading.

Choose or loose! Or as Puff Daddy says, Vote or Die!

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

By Wag the Dog June 23, 2006 12:48 PM Japan just withdrew its’ “coalition” troops from Iraq and the “Uniter” continues to bless America with friends and allies the world over!

I thought the U.S. went in to Iraq unilaterally? Why is this thing saying that Japan is there? Did I do a Rip Van Winkle last night?!

Are the liberals going to make a habit from outing themselves? First we have cartoon boy giving up his real troop loyalty, now “wag the moron” is coming clean on another finch bald faced lie.

Is it the heat driving these moonbats crazy?

Or all the recent good news for America?

By Stan Sackin

June 23, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Recent Luckovich cartoons are very offensive and reflect a very psychotic belief system which is not beneficial to intelligent subscribers who have a viewpoint similar to Luckovich but are not as bitter and nasty. Mrs. Cox needs to let him know that he doesn’t need to kiss her a*s that strongly.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Midori,

I said girlfriend, what’s with this vows business?

By Reminder

June 23, 2006 12:59 PM | Link to this

RW: “The problem is that educating idiots like you is a never ending job.”

Thanks for illustrating my point. A-s-s-holes emit a foul odor, thereby destracting us from their lovely tune. When you can sing without the odor, perhaps someone will listen to the “education” you provide. Until then: Ffffffffft Ffffffffft Fffffffft! (room freshener)

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

Look what else was in Goldie’s article that shut all us wingers up:

Murtha remains popular in his district, in large part because of the federal dollars he has delivered. The homecoming ceremony this week was at an armory on a hillside dubbed “Fort Murtha” because of that largesse. Next to the armory is the John P. Murtha Airport, which is a few miles from the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute.

When you guys stop stealing our money to get things named after you, maybe I’ll take a break from pointing it out.

Has West Virginia been renamed yet?

By Midori

June 23, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Midori has no time to play with you today.

you didn’t show up for the fight yesterday and I’ve moved on.

I suggest you do, too.

All I know is I heard a snippet from John Gibson today, and his “argument” sounds just like yours and the rest of your neanderthal bunch. Not an original thought among the lot of you. You guys have truly taken recyclying to another plane.

And get your hands from between your legs, young lady!!! how undignified!!!!

By @@

June 23, 2006 01:04 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Are you trying to distract us away from ml’s blog. I’ve seen what happens when you guys are left alone.

Everybody sits around missing Andy and the rest of the conservatives.

Now that’s love. Admit it.

By Daniel

June 23, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this

WtD: Thanks for the post. Wolfgang Scheussel the Austrian talks about the vast residue of good will in Austria and Europe for the USA. That was nice to hear again. Let’s hope Armin Turnherr is right and we have turned from War as a first option to diplomacy, diplomacy and diplomacy. Winston Churchill had it right, he said: “It ought to be jaw, jaw, jaw and not war, war, war”. Have a great Friday Y’all. I’m off to my work-out!

By Midori

June 23, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this

Midori, thanks for proving my point. It must be hard going through life thinking you are smarter than everyone and if someone disagrees with you they must be an idiot. No wonder you can’t comprehend contranian arguements.

See, that’s what I get for trying to talk in Mike-speak.

D-UH

And you ARE an idiot.

Glad I could accommodate you. Anytime.

By Wag the Dog

June 23, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

@@- We’d all love to hug Andy’s elephant if he’ll kiss our ass.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

@@,

Well, of course it would be a boring blog without the wingnuts.

By Pot to Kettle (The original)

June 23, 2006 01:12 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

That poll I was referring to was for “Book of Torture” formerly known as “Pot to Kettle”. It’s currently running at 89.51% hate the cartoon.

Yay! The “extremists haters” are busting your saggy prehistoric butt!

By Dubya

June 23, 2006 01:13 PM | Link to this

Bush has returned from his European embarrassment. The Mighty Brain walks among us once more. Praise the Lord! At the airport he announced: “Don’t chew worry none bout Eye Rock. Freedom n Mocracy r on thee march everwhere. We had to deestroy thee village before we could save thee village…from itself. Rat, Daddy?” “Rat chew r, son.” “I got a idea, Daddy. Let’s fool thee Murcun people into not thinking bout Eye Rock now by having some more good ol Desert Storm Victry Parades. Member when we fought that Ghost Army there? Thee good ol days of real victries an real heroes. No surjents round then. That was yore war, Daddy.” “Rat, son.” “I caint wait ta git back into thee White House sos I ken lead thee people like thee leader I r. God bless Murcuh!”

By Ralph

June 23, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this

Looks like the Miami Terrorists are about on the same level as the average Republican. And better citizens too. Another spectacular effort by the FBI. Where is Edgar when we need him?

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 01:19 PM | Link to this

getagrip: Man don’t get all weepy.

I hate to encourage Dubya but dat was purty good.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

It appears that not only does Andy not have a life outside of this blog, he also possesses the world’s only non-numeric alarm clock — permanently set to “Luckovich’s Blog Now Open for Comments”

By finch

June 23, 2006 01:24 PM | Link to this

RW,

Why is every single success labeled by you as a tiny insignificant thing? Let’s say these guys did blow up the Sears Tower. Would you then say the Bush administration should get a pass because this was just a rag tag band of wannabes?

Why do you conjure up crap that just isn’t there?? I’m HAPPY that Gonzalez, Justice and the DHS understand that the world of terrorists is not subject to chains of command and organizational charts all leading to some grand Islamofascist conspiracy.

Unlike many of the wingnuts here.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Is that you?

I see the meds are working. Good for you.

Blogging is for entertainment for me so there is no weeping.

By Cindy

June 23, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

RW, They all do that.
Besides, I would much rather my tax dollars go into American pork than Iraqi pork.

By @@

June 23, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

Waa-Waa-Wag:

O.K. hug our elephant. The second part brought to mind a song my kids at school love. Allow me, please…

When you’re riding your Donkey into town, up’ll come a bump and down’ll go a clown. They love it, just love it.

Kinda reminds you of how the Democrats handle the war in Iraq.

Getalife:

Thanks. We appreciate the “radical extreme left-wing ranters” for the boredom they offer us.

And Getalife, you are welcome in advance.

By finch

June 23, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Auth’s ‘toon is a hoot! CMDs… Catapults of Mass Destruction.

Here’s another one courtesy of Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant.

I don’t know if Bob ‘borrowed’ from ml’s torture cartoon or not, but his version is much more relevant and tasteful.

And far less likely to overwhelm blog servers.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 01:33 PM | Link to this

Midori: You’re kidding me, right? When cartoon boy is groggily sitting in the Decatur Starbucks at 11:00 a.m. in the morning, shaking off the horrible dreams of never ending AJC customer service complaints over a certain cartoon, I’ve been at it for nearly 7 hours.

I march to the beat of a different alarm clock.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this

Cindy,

Iraqi pork?? How insensitive of you.

finch,

Sure bud, this made it hard to see your glee over this victory in the global effort.

Translation: The 7 (including 5 US citizens) had never met anyone from al Qaeda. They called themselves “Black Muslims” but had no affiliation with other Black Muslims or Islam in general. A little cult of wanna be’s too stupid to realize that their behavior made them obvious surveillance targets.

Somehow I read that to mean you were underwhelmed.

By just passing through

June 23, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

terrorists plotting in the US… American Terrorists….GWB “sifting” bank records — without a warrant… good grief, it must be Friday. Check out the front page and read for yourselves…. or better yet, check it out from the sources NYT, LAT or CNN.

By @@

June 23, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this

RW:

It’s the narcolepsy brought on by finch’s nuance that is my problem. You?

I’m out to the pool to languish on a float and schnoozzzzzzzzzzzz.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

@@,

Ah yes, the nuanced ones. If you ever try to pin them down they put up quite a fight trying to be all things to all people.

Sometimes they get really nasty and over protective. Then things like this happen:

I ACTUALLY DID VOTE FOR THE $87 BILLION BEFORE I VOTED AGAINST IT

If they worked as hard trying to do something productive as they do trying to keep you from knowing what they stand for we would all be better off.

By Thomas

June 23, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

Ohh —

I can hear the fanatical Bushi-nite’s protest now!

Bortz actually bashed Bush today over immigration! Blamed Bush and the executive branch for supplying the Mexican Government (via the border patrol) with information as to where the MinuteMen were located so the illegals could slip past them.

yes Ol’ Neal Bortz was talking about Sarah Carters article today WSB radio—

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653

And then he tied it directly to Bush himself!…

Can you hear a pin drop?

Ok Bush-lovers — Man your phones — Time to get the Bortz off the air! Spam the station! Do what you do best! —- Ruh-Rah!

(snicker)

By Mike

June 23, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this

Its funny how on a day when you would think that we could all be happy with the capture of 7 people attempting to blow up a national landmark. Instead people immediately try to fit it into their particular political persuasion.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

they actually voted for bombing the heck out of Iraq before voting against it. Now they are just blowing it the h*ll up

By finch

June 23, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

RW,

Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear in my initial post. If so, my bad. Let me repeat. I’m happy that these alleged wannabes have been arrested, and I’m glad the feds don’t have a simplistic and myopic view of the terror challenge.

Unlike so many wingnuts.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Thomas,

I thought Boortz was doing a “best of” show today. In any case he’s right about President Bush’s plan being off base. There is no reason in the world that sealing the border has to be done in concert with his guest worker plan.

By Thomas

June 23, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

Hey Mike —

I’m happy they caught them. What I am not so happy about is the way the FBI caught them.

I fear that without any solid “material” evidence that these wannabe’s have a good case for being released as there was no “real” physical crime committed yet.

They are accused of planning a crime, not committing a crime and will most likely be exonerated by the courts. You cannot convict someone for a crime they haven’t committed. This will most likely apply here, at least to the 5 that are USA citizens. The non-citizens are screwed (grins)

That’s the sad facts of using what is often referred to as thought police laws.

Now the one thing that may nail them is that they did have a small supply of ammonium nitrate, so that is some physical evidence that can be used in court.

My hopes however is that this case doesn’t become a justification to yet again erode constitutional rights. After all one of the basic precepts of the constitution is the right of it’s citizens to over-throw the government should it ever become oppressive.

I would also be extremly concerned should we dare try to apply wartime “conspiring with the enemy and treason” laws here as that is really putting us as a nation on a very dangerous course into fascism. Using such laws frivously for such a case opens the door to use them every day.

In either case though - these idiots need to be locked up, if nothing else for being stupid and even thinking that the Al-Queda is right! I hope the courts can find enough merit and evidence in the case without resorting to constitutional risky law-bending. I hope the FBI actually has a case with real evidence to back it up.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

The wonderful wacky world of finch*

I didn’t make myself clear unlike so many wingnuts (translation-Conservatives speak more clearly…check)

I’m happy unlike so many wingnuts (too soon to translate-see first item)

I’m glad unlike so many wingnuts (see item 2)

The feds don’t have a simplistic and myopic view unlike many wingnuts (translation-nuanced BS that has no factual backing)

*This post written in HTMLSARC, but ml’s server doesn’t recognize the code.

By Thomas

June 23, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this

Hmm —

You may be right RW - It may have been a best of show —

My fear on immigration, is if we give amnesty to them and they become USA citizens, you may as well double the count as they marry their sweetheart that they left back in Mexico and therefore make them USA citizens too.

Two for the price of one!

By Bill McMillan

June 23, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this

My only wish is to see ajc in bankruptsy court very soon. You socialist pile of s**t! You still don’t get it. Do you? Circulation is plummeting for a reason Dumb-a*s!

By Midori

June 23, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this

RW,

Let’s have some make up sex.

here you go; I’m all yours

By Dusty

June 23, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

Quick, RW,

Call @@ from the pool You need a chaperone here. Midori is running wild. (Haven’t looked at the link. Afraid to.)

By Mike

June 23, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

Thomas, you most certainly can be arrested for planning a crime. Just like if someone is planning to kill someone or hires someone to kill their wife, they can be arressted and charged with murder.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 03:32 PM | Link to this

Midori,

…and they said you didn’t clean up well. Ha! Looking at that picture everyone can tell you were a babe back in the day.

If we wait until next Friday you can say you’re doing an older man. Plus you’ll have to respect me until November.

By Midori

June 23, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

Heh

stick around, RW. I get even cleaner

By finch

June 23, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

RW,

Okay, I’m laughin’. HTMLSARC indeed…

By Midori

June 23, 2006 03:50 PM | Link to this

Never fear, Dusty. I know you can’t wait to jump this guy’s bones

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Here’s the Democrat plan that got us to this point in the first place

By @@

June 23, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

Midori is Dick???

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

Somebody was complaining that the Atlanta station that used to carry Scare America was clear now that they dumped all moonbats. Didn’t they keep this one?

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 04:12 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Did you catch your Grandfather on Meet the Press? Looks like he a little work done for the election season.

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two decades ago, and a sharply growing number of people say they have no one in whom they can confide, according to a comprehensive new evaluation of the decline of social ties in the United States.-Washington Post

Abortion and gay marriage should help this, duh.

By getalife

June 23, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

RW,

Wow, looks like he needs a vacation. ml posted his take on the torture toon.

By Where's the Honor?

June 23, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

Don’t compare Midori to Dick Cheney! Cheney is a man of honor! He’s a role model — a hero even!

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

Gay marriage can never result in an abortion, POT TO KETTLE. However, the Right’s attempts to deny women health care, and deny equal rights to any citizen can lead to a miscarriage of JUSTICE!!!!

By Pot To Kettle (I'll Change It Later)

June 23, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this

I figured out why General Seeker incorrectly thinks those 7 dudes were bada-sses:

“They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah,” Rose said.-Opinion Journal

Cause they were brainwashed like he is, hahahahahahaha.

Loser.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I saw it. ml says he stands by his cartoon and oh by the way it’s Bush’s fault.

ml is a despicable bastard just like the title of my post about his insipid cartoon. You may remember the cartoon. It’s named “POT TO KETTLE”, but it’s hidden under the name “Book on Torture”

By MrLiberty

June 23, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this

Mike,

Keep up the great work.

Pointing out that american soldiers can be as guilty of war crimes as anyone else on the planet is too painful for some to realize, but is true nonetheless.

This war is unconstitutional, it is a violation of the Geneva convention, and by all technical rights, everyone participating in it is guilty of war crimes - starting of course with Mr. Bush.

We invaded a sovereign nation, we have knowingly and mercilessly bombed innocent citizens to death, and our actions at Abu Graib and so many cities that dot this unfortunate country have been reprehensible.

This kind of behavior is exactly what any country can expect when they force their sons and daughters to do the dirty work of aggressive and imperial warfare - followed by occupation and oppression. We are not wanted in Iraq and will be forced out at all costs. The response of our soldiers is as predictable and the response of the citizens who are trying to throw out the invading army. A bried look at history will tell the tale.

Osama wanted all of this. If anyone has given aid and comfort to him, it is our president, not you. The message may be difficult to swallow, but the messenger isn’t the problem.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this

Where’s the Honor,

Here are a couple more heroes for you

By Scott

June 23, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this

RW,

The war was not unconstitutional nor was it illegal. We had the right to invade under the cease-fire agreement from the first gulf war every time he fired on one of our aircraft.

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

The pen is mightier than the dumbazz.

The reaction to the reality check cartoon proves that.

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this

I guess I have been lacking in a discussion of “Today’s Cartoon”, here’s my global warming thoughts, in a handy video

By Vatican Lectures

June 23, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this

and Miller time is mightier than the blog.

Good day, sirs.

I SAID GOOD DAY!!!

By RW-(the original)

June 23, 2006 05:21 PM | Link to this

Scott,

Thanks! I may well have said the same a few times, maybe you should tell MrLiberty.

By Daniel

June 23, 2006 06:40 PM | Link to this

Ok, Ok, the rancor and sniping on this blog has gootten way out of hand! I hereby appoint the three most reasonable contributors: finch, gal and Ricky as a comittee to determine who gets disciplined for 1)Not being funny; 2)Lack of collegiality; and 3)failure to answer a question. I propose two punishmewnts. A mild rebuke for the first offense equaling a five minute banishment. Severe offenders would be required to watch a one minute video of Karl Rove attempting aerobics in a bathing suit.

By Katherine Dillard

June 26, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

If torture in any way is condoned, then we are morally wrong. If we want to say that we are the “good guys”, then we have to be above reproach. Who decides who gets tortured? Do you trust anybody else to make those kinds of decisions? I don’t.

By David

June 26, 2006 09:05 AM | Link to this

Mike, Having read Angela’s editorial before seeing the cartoon, I may have been biased but I can’t help but ask; Who is your audience? If it is the typical Atlanta AJC reader, you need to get a better understanding of who that reader is. You are a brilliant cartoonist but you really mis-judged things here. This cartoon can be read many ways. In today’s climate, you can pretty much bet that a majority of readers will view anything written in the light least favorable to the writer. Controversy is more fun that compliance. The publication of this cartoon was ill-timed and while I know that most people could never do what you do, I also know I could never offer any advice that didn’t sound naive and condescending.

By cliff

June 26, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

Mike, you are a lying, sniveling, cowardly a@@hole. Your meaculpa was also a joke, and a lying joke at that. You hate America and its military. I have two Marine sons, both on their second tours to Iraq, and your depiction of us being as bad as the terrorists in an abomination. And, you DID make a direct comparison. Even the libs I know turned on you. You are filth

By Windell Driskell

June 27, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this

I’ve been in this town for about twenty years, and early on, I realized the AJC wasn’t the kind of news source that I wanted to waste my money on. I don’t read it, but every now and then a friend will point out something so outrageous that I have to look. The Luckovich cartoon is one such item. If there were more people like me, this cartoon would never have been printed, because there would be no second rate rag like the AJC in this beautiful city. Atlanta deserves better. Windell Driskell

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