Legacies? How About “Good Riddance to the Swine?” by Walter C. Uhler

[Joanne98]

Tony Auth’s political cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s January 14th edition is the quintessential picture that is worth a thousand words. It tells you almost everything you need to know about the uniquely evil Bush/Cheney regime — i.e., its lies about Saddam Hussein’s WMD, its illegal torture at Abu Ghraib, its illegal wiretaps, its pathetically immoral and incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, its ideological trashing of politically incorrect scientific findings, its oversight failures, which contributed to Wall Street’s collapse and Cheney’s devilish torching of the Constitution. Moreover, it deftly pencils in the world’s feeble response to such evil: the hurling of shoes at Bush from all corners.

As such, Mr. Auth’s cartoon serves as a one-stop reminder of the catastrophic Bush/Cheney “Time of Troubles” at the very moment when these swine give interviews designed to spread a final round of self-serving lies — in a futile attempt to salvage their legacy of evil. Therefore, you might want to keep Auth’s cartoon by your side, especially if you plan to watch Bush’s prime time farewell address tonight.

(Unfortunately, many within America’s servile mainstream news media remain all too eager to spread such lies. These sycophants seem to have learned nothing from their grossly erroneous “news” reporting (actually, cheerleading) in support of Bush’s illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq. Thus, they are probably beyond redemption.)

Mr. Auth’s cartoon does not include the obligatory “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq banner. Which is unfortunate, because, as David E. Sanger concludes in his new book, The Inheritance, “the long-term cost of the Iraq war goes beyond the tragic loss of more than 4,000 of America’s finest young men and women, tens of thousands of Iraqis, countless casualties, and the roughly $800 billion spent since the invasion. There were also huge opportunity costs. We squandered many opportunities to project American influence around the globe and lost the credibility we needed to rally the world to confront far more imminent threats to our security than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq ever posed.”

Finally, one might ask why Mr. Auth portrays Bush as a hapless idiot, rather than a swaggering narcissist. Surely, Bush’s narcissism was the source of his hapless idiocy. Columnist Frank Rich certainly was correct when he observed: “The man who emerges is a narcissist with no self-awareness whatsoever. It’s that arrogance that allowed him to tune out even the most calamitous of realities, freeing him to compound them without missing a step.” Let’s face it, George Herbert Walker and Barbara Bush raised a smart-assed punk and gullible Americans twice elected him President of the United States.

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[Seldona]

1. K&R

That is a political cartoon for the ages. It should be plastered in the foyer of dimson's library.