My favorite cartoon from the time before the war.

[kpete]

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[leveymg]

1. Invent one - some will go along with anything the neocons cook up. Again and again.

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Worked before, and will work again in Libya, again, Syria, and Iraq, again. Real men go to Iran . . . and Russia.

[calimary]

6. randy scheunemann. That's the tip-off, if jebbie becomes the GOP nominee.

Remember the PNAC signatories.

http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html

If ANY of these beasts are attached at the "foreign policy advisor" level of his campaign, GUARANTEED they're going to be back in power, infesting the Pentagon, the State Department, and the National Security Advisor's office - PLUS the UN Ambassador. Watch it be somebody like john bolton again. (He, TOO, is a PNAC signatory.)

[leveymg]

7. Gotta love the foresight of this from PNAC: "Second Statement on Post-War Iraq", dated 3/28/03

Seems to have been signed by a lot of them.

[calimary]

16. And one of them, the infamous paul wolfowitz, is on jebbie's foreign policy team.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017245911


http://www.publiceye.org/pnac_chart/pnac.html

[leveymg]

18. Was it Wolfie or Mike Ledeen who suggested the Iraqis would greet American troops with flowers?

I remember Ledeen is the author of “the Ledeen Doctrine.” Ex-Pentagon official Michael Ledeen is famously quoted by Jeff Goldberg as saying: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business.” (When the French ambassador in London, at a dinner party, asked why we should risk World War III over some “shitty little country”—meaning Israel—Goldberg’s magazine was not amused.) Maybe it was some other wannabe world changer.

Excellent article on the tribulations of the neocons, here: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whose-war/

[calimary]

19. Might have, but wolfie was the one who specifically said the Iraq War wasn't going to cost

us taxpayers one dime - because all that Iraqi oil was gonna pay for it! WOW!!! What a deal! Let's get TWO!



And michael ledeen can burn in Hell for all I care. His room is already reserved I think, based on that piece-of-shit statement of his: "every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show we mean business"???????????????? Oh My FREAKIN' GOD...

[n2doc]

2. Well, there is the one they gave, and then there is the real one

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[niyad]

3. I was going to say I cannot remembe a time before war.

[mountain grammy]

32. there was never "a time before war"

just a few moments of relative peace between wars.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Is that the one Hillary signed?

[frazzled]

5. Mine was this

The very first Get Your War On. (I actually bought a signed and numbered print of it. Yay me. It's framed in my study.)

[zentrum]

28. Good one! n/t

[benld74]

8. I heard the original acronym for the Iraq war was

O peration
I raq
L iberation

[Jack Rabbit]

9. You heard right

Somebody in the Bush Junta's PR department thought better of it.

[Doc Holliday]

10. Reminds me of how Rush Limbaugh

had to backpedal when naming his so-called "Institute."

Originally, it was to be called the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Republican Studies.

[malaise]

14. ROFL

Makes sense

[fadedrose]

29. :)

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. Perfect.

[dissentient]

11. Wow, that is brilliant. Never saw that one before.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. I saved and scanned this one....

[thesquanderer]

13. They need to take the Profit out of war.

No company should be allowed to make money out of war. All "defense" work should be non-profit. That's the only defense WE have against the military industrial complex. Allowing private companies and their shareholders to make gobs of money out of war is a huge, fundamental flaw in our system. Personal enrichment of powerful people should never be allowed to become a motive for military operations, and as long as the profit potential is there, it will be.

[malaise]

15. Do you see any war on your borders

with all those drones and men collecting pay for creating fear?
Look men intend to make money by creating fear.

[erronis]

34. While I totally agree with you we all know it ain't going to happen.

Maybe we could offer the profiteers a piece of the "prosperity pie" that happens after we solve all of the world's problems.

You know, like the new Obamacare rules that would require hospitals and physicians to actually make their patients well before getting paid? Return visits to ER (or Iraq, Middle East, etc.) would be a negative reimbursement for expenses.

Or maybe we need to make sure that every neocon has some real skin in the game. Get in front of the troops, Wolfie, Chinney. Put your children and grandchildren in battle gear and put them on the front line, not in some DC bunker.

[Gothmog]

17. Great cartoon

[sabrina 1]

20. And it's happening again ....

[Fred Sanders]

21. The reason was scary Muslims then and so it has to be scary Muslims again? Get a new act.

[Jackpine Radical]

23. Jeez, Fred--Whassa madder witcha?

It's them Moozlims as is sittin on alla da oil.

[Fred Sanders]

24. What you are saying is, it is all about the oil? This time it is about the evil the lust unleashed.

The oil in Iraq is flowing fine.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. It's still about the oil.

We're doing the Saudis' bidding on this one. They're pretty nervous about an ISIS infection at home, for one thing.

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. Clay Bennett?

Looks like his work?

[jaxind]

26. What's Missing

You can add "An Exit Strategy" and "An Understanding of the Region" to the list of unchecked items!

[zentrum]

27. Add to...

…the checklist "Poor Kids" to be soldiers. The ones who can't get jobs and can't afford to go to college.

[Enthusiast]

31. Too bad the media didn't question that one. K&R!

Way to go, kpete.

[mountain grammy]

33. K & R for truth.