'Tasteless' Iraq 9/11 cartoon x 2

db: Cartoonist Joel Pett's graphic in - of all places - USA Today makes a reasonable point. 9/11 came 'out of the blue' because 'they hate our freedom' [unless you read Robert Fisk or a few others]. Whilst on the other hand the US dead in Iraq - and a much larger group of Iraqis - were served up as sacrifice by Bush and his neocon friends consciously and knowingly in pursuit of US power in the region. Sadly it could also be said that whereas the killers involved in 9/11 achieved everything and probably more than they imagined in their wildest dreams, Bush has achieved very little - if you exclude the gains made by corporate war profiteers and oil companies from the equation - which is something of course, when weighing up the pros and cons of this 'failed' adventure, that Bush wouldn't do.

A patriot from Florida writes [not a spoof]:

'Tasteless' illustration

I have the perfect description for Joel Pett's so-called cartoon: tasteless.
I cannot fathom why USA TODAY decided to print such a thing that has no value whatsoever.
The July Fourth holiday is approaching, and I just hope that more patriotic cartoons will appear.

Kate Hoffay
Melbourne, Fla.

Cartoon for Kate Hoffay



Apologies to Joe Pett