The AJC wants your input regarding the "Why" cartoon.

[trogdor]

The toon:

The blog where the 101st Fighting Keyboardists are letting Mike have it:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/entries/2005/10/26/the_2000_americ.html

Your input is desperately needed. Thank you.

[trogdor]

1. My rant.

By Dave from the Lake Effect Zone

October 27, 2005 10:51 AM | Link to this

Boy, the 101st Fighting Keyboardists are in full force at the AJC today. We did NOT go to Iraq to grow Democracy (TM) in the Middle East (like that’s going to work), to get rid of a nasty tyrant (when are we getting around to deposing Kim Jong-Il?), or any of the dozens of idiotic “reasons” the Bushies floated in an attempt to keep the opposition quiet. We went to Iraq because the Bushies told us that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction which he was either ready to use himself or sell to the first nut from al-Qaida with a suitcase full of cash. THAT, my friends, turned out to be a bald-faced lie, and all the Yellow Elephants posting their “freedom isn’t free” nonsense isn’t going to make it true. It sure isn’t going to validate the deaths of the 2,000 American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for something that, so it turns out, did not exist.

I stand behind people like Mike and Cindy Sheehan when they ask the simple question, “why?” It’s a legitimate question, one the right-wing chickenhawks posting here have chosen to answer by yet another chorus of the same tired horsehockey they’ve been displaying on their car bumpers for the past two and a half years. Your answers are inadequate, unsatisfactory, and insulting to the intelligence of an eight year old. My suggestion to you is, put up or shut up. Go down to your local Army recruiter’s office and put your money where your mouth is. Otherwise, as your hero Bill O’Reilly might say, shut up.

[Mad_Dem_X]

2. Awesome rant! And the cartoon

is powerful. :cry:

[otohara]

3. done

[Burried News]

4. I like Mike and so do more than 80% of 4000 responders.

The house of lies is collapsing.

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1904.html
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away." -- "

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. Here's one of my two:

I have another “why” question. Why can’t you people who supported Bush admit he and you were wrong, over 2000 now, DEAD WRONG about any of the reasons that were thrown out there for taking this country to war? Why can’t you admit now that the only people benefiting from this war are not the Iraqi people, but the oil industry executives and Halliburton that are making money hand over fist off of this war (can you say Dick Cheney - War Profiteer)? Why is it always the Democrats, liberals, progressives or whatever it is you call us that have to come in and clean up Republican messes? Furthermore, why is the voting public so ignorant as to realize that when you keep voting for this cabal, your sons and daughters get shipped off to die for a lie and your pensions go up in smoke while your medication prices skyrocket and your taxes go up, not down? Why?

[trogdor]

6. Awesome rant.

Thanks...everyone, for helping me burninate these idiots. The truth is, there IS no satisfactory answer to the question, "why."