1952 comic presages Bush/Cheney debacle in the Middle East!

[Atman]

Check out this blog (boingboing) for the full comic, and an explanation from an alert student of history. It's pretty fascinating!

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[Tom Joad]

1. american imperialism, a US bi-partisan tradition.

[Unreconstructed Lib]

5. In the rarefied stratum of money and power, Ds and Rs are meaningless.

It's always been that way, too, I think. Down here in the trenches, things have become more bitterly divided than ever but that's because we're all fighting for the scraps that fall from our keepers' tables. Up there, in that bubble that surrounds the beltway, with a few pesky exceptions, all is well. Shhh.

[slackmaster]

2. Damn, that's almost as funny as Politness Man!

Hilarious!

[Atman]

4. I LOVED Politeness Man...

"Here...take this hanky!"

:rofl:

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[Lerkfish]

3. kicke and recc'd

[datasuspect]

6. tell it to the marines pinko!

[Atman]

7. That's a cool comic...but were there CO's in the 1940's?

I'm not staking a claim one way or another, because I honestly don't know...sounds kinda weird. I thought that was "the good war." Didn't everyone join up?

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[datasuspect]

8. yep

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar/ww2pacifists.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector