Reply #3: Along with the polar ice....

[Peace Patriot]

Yeah, I thought it was funny, too, as I wrote it. I LOL-ed, maybe because the Bush era of greed and death seems to be coming to a close (don't we wish! 'Dear Lord, it's me, Peace Patriot...!'), or maybe because Rumsfeld's timing is so bad--to attack Chavez on the very weekend of the first hostage release, as Rumsfeld & co's plans to sabotage it got foiled. And doesn't he know that the Freeper meme is now "Chavez wants to BECOME a dictator," since their old meme, "Chavez IS a dictator" ran into a wall of facts. Rumsfeld--lethal as he is, slaughterer of 1.2 million Iraqis to get their oil--suddenly seemed pathetic to me, like the old vampire, teeth dripping with the blood of the young, that he is--meeting a ray of sunlight. And, of course, like our cultural ikon of evil, the Wicked Witch of the West.

What Rumsfeld has done, and the horror that he is still capable of, is not funny. But sometimes you just gotta laugh. And if I were a graphic artist, I would have a lot of fun with Dorothy (Chavez) and her good buds, the presidents of France, Argentina and Colombia (Cowardly Lion???), and the Wicked Witch. (Not sure of Uribe--and I don't think Chavez is sure of him either--he may be the leader of the Flying Monkey soldiers.) (--ally of the Wicked Witch.)