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Postwar Punditry

Jesse Walker | 8.6.2003 6:23 AM

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Brad S   22 years ago

    Hilarious, yet oh so true. A good way to end the day. Thanks for that.

  2. fyodor   22 years ago

    Nice! But, why did they change sides at the end??

  3. Ray   22 years ago

    It's like Monopoly, you get to be both the monopolist and the oppressed consumer, depending on the roll of the dice and which card you pull.

  4. Kim   22 years ago

    I love political cartoons! It's amazing that a drawing can cause so many mixed emotions among different people. If your local paper has a really good cartoonist, then half of the letters to the editor either praise or scorn his or her work.

    Lookie here:
    http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/

    At this site, you can see what political cartoonists from around the world are saying.

  5. Kim   22 years ago

    Oops! Forgot to give credit where it's due:
    http://www.komando.com

  6. Anonymous   22 years ago

    Glad to see we're all reenacting the cartoon...

    And Warmonger is kicking whit's pansy ass all around the board.

  7. Warmonger   22 years ago

    WOW HILARITY!

    Can you believe that there were MANY MANY reasons to go to war and that MOST of these have been justified? FUnny funny, but InternationalANSWER is still the biggest joke.

  8. John Hood   22 years ago

    That cartoon was supposed to be funny? I guess I need a humor transplant.

  9. Whit   22 years ago

    Can you believe Warmonger that almost NONE of the reasons to go to war have been justified? Now isn't that funny?

  10. Warmonger   22 years ago

    ho ho ha har Whit, you so funny. Yeah nothing was acomplished -- no stopping genocide, no dead warmongering dictators, no changing the power strucuture of the ME in our favor, no peace process in Isreal/Palistine, Syria and Iran are not cracking down on terror, no beginnings of demorcay in Iraq, no chance to purchase oil from people other than the Saudis, the Saudis are not being investigated and we wouldn've know 100% for sure Saddam didn't have WMDs since he was being honest with the inspectors ---- toooo funny! You should be on Comedy Central with that bit!

  11. joe   22 years ago

    SAT scores are up and Atari is coming out with a bitching new game system, too. Should we be counting those as benefits of the war as well? They have about as much relation to Bush's stated objectives as much of your list.

  12. Anonymous   22 years ago

    Glad to see we're all reenacting the cartoon...

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