WOW -- the final insult - how true but sad -- this chilled me to the bone

[BigBearJohn]

[Bluebear]

1. Poignant, says it all. nt

[Dr.Phool]

61. No, Shrub forgot one word

He should have said, "It's important for me to go on with my life SENTENCE".

[JohnnyBoots]

2. Can we start a fund to put that on bill boards ?

[BigBearJohn]

12. sign me up

[Booster]

21. Sign me up too. This really puts Bush in his place.

[BigBearJohn]

26. I get chills to my toes everytime I look at this cartoon.

It's honesty and irony is inescapable.

[PurpleChez]

53. And that Place would be Hell, right?

And When would be an hour from now? ;)

[newyawker99]

60. Hi PurpleChez!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[thecrow]

29. Ask this DUer about billboard blogging

http://thebillboardproject.blogs.com

OH! and count me IN

[kath]

34. I'll kick in, too. Wow, what a cartoon.

[JRob]

63. i'd be in

[neuvocat]

76. Same here.

Let me know.

[xchrom]

3. yow!

kinda makes ya feel a chill wind go by.

[Spazito]

4. Whoa, that is so stark and powerful

Thanks for posting it.

[BigBearJohn]

6. I just sent it out to about 100 people

[montanacowboy]

5. That should be on the front page of every paper

I guarantee it would get results

[BigBearJohn]

10. I agree 100% (goosebumps)

[MissB]

7. Nailed it.

[hiley]

8. That says it all

:cry:

[stopbush]

9. kkkompassionate kkkonservatives...

on edit: added a k...

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Zing

I hope this is only the beginning of that heartless and callous statement haunting him.

[BigBearJohn]

13. Someone at Camp Casey should have a big poster of this to display

[tnlefty]

14. Sad but true.

:kick:

[indepat]

15. Irrefutable as to whose life is seen as important and whose aren't

[Iris]

16. Much better than my local rag's

cartoon of Michale Moore holding Cindy Sheehan by puppet strings.

Has she even met Michael Moore?

[FreedomAngel82]

28. Not that I'm aware of

She just has a blog on his site and righties jump on the band wagon. :eyes: They love to get people who tell the truth.

[FizzFuzz]

67. That is revoltingly ignorant.

I'm sorry that's your local paper. NOt that ours is much better. (I don't even look at it anymore. But they always seem to have Born Again stories on the front page of every section. :puke: )

[TexasLawyer]

17. That should get a Pulitzer

[Trevelyan]

48. Kick, I agree, that is the most powerful editorial cartoon I've ever seen

Since there is such interest in Cindy, It really should be placed there billboard size over the broken Crosses, Stars of David and Crescents.

http://www.conyersblog.us/

Rep. Conyers has a lot of great new stuff even in the day I was away. There are numerous articles and letters to the editor on his main site and action links on his blog including a webform for his goal of sending a thousand letters from us to local newspapers.

An open letter to Kerry and Edwards not to pull out of the Ohio Election Fraud lawsuit. I thought that was over but if we want honest elections we have to keep fighting and Kerry has recently hinted publicly that he might not continue with this important stage of the continuing recount/audit though Conyers says it was never about changing the results.

On Conyers homepage under Downing Street, you can sign his letter to the President for answers to the DSM, this is different than the DSM petition. He is so active during his vacation and the blog has a lot of very informative sites and action steps you can take on most of Bush Crime Families atrocities.

:kick: :grouphug: :woohoo: :patriot:

[Trevelyan]

49. The Letters, Webform, Articles, etc are all about Cindy and making sure

the media continues to cover the story of Cindy and the vigils in many cities and the immense interest in what Cindy has to say about this illegal and horrendous war and waging peace with Code Pink, Veterans for Peace and the Gold Star Families for Peace and others.

Afterdowningstreet.com has a media campaign with easy links to most of the Mainstream Media to do in-depth coverage of Cindy and her supporters. http://www.conyersblog.us/

:blush: :hi: :thumbsup:

[rman]

18. merciless

and so it should be

[FreedomAngel82]

19. That about sums it up

What a powerful cartoon.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. Ben Sargent always gets it, but this is his finest piece yet.

Powerful

[Straight Shooter]

22. Ben Sargent, one of the finest editorial cartoonists ever. n/t

[onecent]

23. WOW!!!!!!!!! WHY do people PUT UP with this fuck dipshit??? n/t

[BigBearJohn]

24. Unadulterated truth is so damn powerful. You can't escape it.

THIS IS SO DAMN POWERFUL

[Pepper32]

25. Very true and powerful visual. (n/t)

[BigBearJohn]

27. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THIS CARTOON WAS SHOWN ON TELEVISION?????!!!!!

[WiseButAngrySara]

32. It certainly should be...Maybe Jon Stewart or K.O? n/t

[BigBearJohn]

39. I just sent it out to Keith -- I wish everyone else wold too!

His address is [e-mail]

[WiseButAngrySara]

42. Thanks so much for the link...maybe you can add it to your original

post, with other pertinent addresses (like maybe the Today Show, Maher, etc) I'm not sure I know how to send the cartoon, but I'll send an email, or the entire DU page.

[senseandsensibility]

30. Just about says it all, doesn't it?

:cry: Those fallen soldiers were so much more worthy than Mr. "It's all about Meeee..." God, is there no justice in this world?

[w8liftinglady]

31. Does anyone know how to contact Ben Sargent?

I would like to thank him for this touching piece.
(p.s.-I emailed it to Oreilly and Ankarlo)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

33. Absolutely inspired. Another recommendation. n/t

[tblue37]

35. Here dead lie we because we did not choose

Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.

A. E. Housman
1936

[aaronbees]

51. Great poem...nice find...

Those words sure resonate now.


Here's the last stanza from Wilfred Owen's poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est." -->

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[tblue37]

77. I teach a college-level intro to poetry course.

I teach both poems in my classes--and a whole bunch of war poems by people who have actually served in wars.

About Owen's poem, BTW: He wrote it partly in reaction against the jingoistic pro-war poetry that was so popular in England during WWI. Tragically, Wilfred Owen wsa killed in that war, two weeks before the Armistice.

[karlrschneider]

36. Sent to everyone in my addy book. Including some neocons.

:grr:

[BigBearJohn]

40. I did too! The truth is INESCAPABLE

[Hubert Flottz]

37. I was thinking about the same thing a couple of hours ago...

that Casey wouldn't be able to go on with his life because of Bush' lies. I'm in a permanent state of pissed off now days!

[Malikshah]

38. "The Grave"

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

When the wars of our nation did beckon,
A man barely twenty did answer the calling.
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,
He's gone,
But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.

And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.
And deep in the trench he waited for hours,
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.

But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.
And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.
In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.

He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
"They can't let me die! The can't let me die here!
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave!
The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave."

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.
He's gone.

--Don McClean

[Olney Blue]

41. Brilliant.

Thanks for posting this. :thumbsup:


:kick:

[Stephanie]

43. a kick

i just noticed this now - perfect

[garthranzz]

44. I'm emailing this

to everyone I can.

[fortyfeetunder]

45. It is the 21st century equivalent of the alleged --

Marie Antoinette quote, "Let them eat cake"....

[krkaufman]

57. well put. n/t

[AuntPatsy]

46. Says it all, this should be spread far and wide...

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

47. kick... what a poignant and very true cartoon

[TheUnspeakable]

50. I hope everyone sees this!!

[NewJeffCT]

52. wow, great cartoon

at least our cartoonists still have some guts, unlike the so-called reporters.

[Supersedeas]

75. sounds like Dimson has been receiving a lil 'therapy'

[PurpleChez]

54. Wake up peoples!

Your idiot king is a cold-hearted douchebag who doesn't care squat for you, your kids, or anything else YOU are about -- unless you're crawling in on all fours with a big fat check in your mouth. Woof.

[lakeguy]

55. very powerful!! would be great to get it some coverage...

[BigBearJohn]

70. This should be plastered all over America

[Darth_Kitten]

56. very powerful

:(

[Number9Dream]

58. Bush quote - About what? When?

For those of us who can't keep up with every stupid statement the Crawford draft-dodger makes, could somebody here please tell me what was the quote was about? When? etc. Link?

[holboz]

62. It was Bushit's response as to why he won't meet with Cindy...

...he said he sympathizes with her and other grieving families, but he can't meet with her because he has to get on with his life.

That's a paraphrase, but pretty much it!

[mtnsnake]

59. Thanks, BigBear for posting that.

Wow, what a picture can say...

[BigBearJohn]

71. A picture is worth 1800 words

[elmerdem]

64. I think Dylan said/sung it years ago

I think this sums up my feelings pretty well concerning Dubya.

Masters of War/Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[BlueJac]

65. George the peanut head

This is so true about or fearless leader. :thumbsup:

[FizzFuzz]

66. saving this

:(

[jokerman93]

68. Marie Antoinette

This is W's "Let them eat cake." moment.

Time to storm the Bastille?

[Individualist]

69. kick

[BigBearJohn]

72. People: How can we get a big poster of this sent to Camp Casey? Ideas?

[alfredo]

73. Remember what Barbara Bush said.

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

I wonder where gw got his cavalier attitude?

[TankLV]

74. Wow.

Really shows how big of an ass that war criminal in OUR White House is.

Words cannot adequately convey how I feel about that war crimnal.

[katty]

78. Indeed! A PERFECT response to the asshole

[RagAss]

79. Billboard Fund...I'm in....

[Solly Mack]

80. I'll be printing copies to stick up around post

that cartoon nails it.

[BigBearJohn]

81. God bless you! I still get chills each time I look at the cartoon!!!

[BigBearJohn]

82. .