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Funny. But, maybe nonsensical. Byrd was a KKK member not bush. A better one would have been with a dunce cap.
To Patrick in reply #1: Talking about nonsensical, son! That editorial ‘toon ain’t gotta thing to do with the KKK. Where ya been that ya could be so completely off on this thing?
Think “Abu Ghraib” and “torture”. Think of the fact that Bush just vetoed a bill that would have totally outlawed waterboarding, a practice which the US has prosecuted and defined as a war crime right up until, well, Bush. Got it now?
#1
Maybe the color threw you off, but that’s a reference to one of the famous pictures of a detainee being tortured.
Close Patrick, but not right, that is Abu Ghraib not KKK.
Are you disparaging the “Great” “Leader”? Time to drop a note to the DHS. [end sarcasm]
You’re right. That’s what I get for having the window too small when I viewed it.
Your window was too small when you viewed it? That’s why you jumped in with your Byrd/KKK** reference? LOL!
Dude, that bird’s got no wings.
**Robert Byrd was in fact once a member of the KKK but renounced his membership and the organization somewhere around 60 years ago. Hardly current affairs.
#1 Don’t feel too bad. Bush certainly does deserve a dunce cap!
Aww geeze… And I was hoping it would be Bush and Cheney’s heads on a pike. Rotting in the sun.
It’s worse than that: THAT’S THE SYMBOL OF AMERICA.
Prior to Bush, foreigner’s have had a hard time singularly stereotyping Americans.
But no longer. To the world, America is a grotesque blend of George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Lynndie England.
As for iconic symbols == And the Statue of Liberty has been replaced by that poor prisoner in a hood.
Thank you conservatives.
The Army announced prosecutions for Abu Ghraib weeks before the pictures got leaked to the press, yet people still think this was some sort of crime that the media exposed. In war there are war crimes, and this was punished just as others are.
The WaterBoard, a family fun ride, coming to an amusement park near you.
#11, don’t bother, the neo-libs here will never let facts get in the way of a Bush bashing. You have to pity them though, they are very closed minded.
BTW, did the standing on the box torture ever get the guy to tell where in the public market he hid the bomb?
RBG
#13 – Close minded liberal. Oxymoronic.
Regardless of you political alignment, he has left quite a legacy and quite a mess to clean up.
#13 – don’t bother, the neo-libs here will never let facts get in the way of a Bush bashing.
So what is W’s redeeming characteristics? What has he done that makes you rush to defend him? Why do you cling to him so tight?
He’s a bad president. He’s a bad leader. He’s bad at everything. He’s a man whose life is an open book. He know about the coke, the dubious Guard duty, the nepotism, the favors, his less that honorable Ivy League career, his failures in business and his poor performance in Texas…
We knew all that before 2000. We knew it because it was never a secret. But the right wanted to ignore it, brush it under the table… With the benefit of hindsight, do you really think you would have backed this horse back then?
…and as President, his actions are under even greater light and scrutiny and the flaws in his character are even easier to define. I didn’t like Reagan or Bush Sr. I’m not a huge fan of Ford or Nixon. I’ve never supported a single Republican in any election for anything, including coroner and dog catcher. But this one… Bush, is the only one ever that I cannot see a single redeeming quality in. I strain to find the one aspect of his character that I can at least respect, but I find nothing.
He’s like Dan Quayle, if Dan Quayle were also a mean spirited megalomaniac along with being clueless.
And the right installed this ineffectual placeholder to ride his uneventful 4 year term out while America (who actually elected someone else) waited for real leadership to rise again… But you never bet on four hijacked planes, 3000+ deaths, and the destruction to two universally respected national icons… and suddenly the placeholder became a whirlwind of destruction, shattering the sacred values of American liberty and democracy and planting the seeds of a new global police state.
It’s all falling down… the economy and all our institutions. Americans are split and warring with each other. Hate and vitriol are at all time highs, and our fearless leader, with his chimpy smirk and deer in headlights gaze, does nothing to unite and everything to widen the division even more.
So really… Why do you defend him? What do you see that I cannot?
If I was Dvorak, having read through these comments I’d have to ask myself whether it is wise to continue to allow comments so indiscriminately; based on this set of comments, his audience here is populated by a painfully large percentage of vacuous mental midgets. What does that say about this site?
Abu Ghraib was prosecuted? Bollocks. Higher-ups (Rummy for one) who ordered the torture skated while a few hapless grunts took the heat. I have no doubt that Abu Ghraib-style “enhancements” are still going on.
#18 – And your Algonquin Round Table quality observations deserve our respect… why?
Did anyone else notice that the flags are up side down? That was a nice subtle touch.
#18 Let’s see – no censorship, free speech? I mean, even you get to have your say.
Would it be wise to censor comments? What fun is that? There wouldn’t be anyone to ridicule if only yes-sayers were allowed to comment.
#10 “As for iconic symbols == And the Statue of Liberty has been replaced by that poor prisoner in a hood.”
Does this mean people will stop flooding our shores looking for a better place to live?
#11, MikeN,
I don’t think so.
The Pentagon knew about the pictures but were sitting on them hoping they would go away. Once they were released did they actually do something.
#13, Another troll.
I’d still love to learn what a “neo-lib” is. Although I’m positive it is something the asswipe right wing nuts have wittily come up with, it has no meaning.
#18,
his audience here is populated by a painfully large percentage of vacuous mental midgets. What does that say about this site?
You’re a vacuous mental midget.
#18 – If you’re so concerned why don’t you stop coming here? By the parameters you set it would help.
If you just say the word “Bush”, a lot angry people start crawling out from under the rocks.
And some of them click the Google ads.
So it’s good for business!
/This is also why places like Slashdot have a anti-Microsoft article every other day. Passion = profit.
>I don’t think so.
The Pentagon knew about the pictures but were sitting on them hoping they would go away. Once they were released did they actually do something.
Don’t let the facts bother you. The Pentagon announced the prosecution in a regular press conference. It wasn’t considered newsworthy because they didn’t have the sensational pictures.
OFTLO, two words President Gore
#29 – You are right… Had we had the leader we actually elected, we’d all be one helluva lot better today.