Another Left-Wing Dig at US Military
I cannot properly produce the link to the cartoon in question (the address is too long and it gets lost in my right margin) so I’m simply asking people to google “Tom Toles”, open the first returned item, click on his archives and click on the July 5, 2007 cartoon.
For those that don’t go to the cartoon, please allow me to briefly describe it. The cartoon is mocking the United States for staying in Iraq to help the Iraqis. The Iraqi Army is sitting on bench completely undressed. The “US Army” is hiding its face toward a tree with the following dialogue cloud, “999,999,999 . . . 1 Billion! Ready or not, here I go! This time I mean it!”
Wow, that’s funny Tom.
Tom cartoons for the Washington Post. His work is picked up by other “news”papers around the country. This hysterical cartoon was in the Boston Globe on July 9.
My unpublished letter to the editor:
Editor,
Your July 9, 2007 editorial cartoon by Mr. Tom Toles was an outrage and only the ill-informed would have thought it was funny.
Someone should inform Mr. Toles and whoever at the Boston Globe assesses cartoons for publication that the United States Army does not set U.S. foreign policy.
The United States Army is commanded by a Republican President and it is funded by legislation produced from a Democratically-controlled Congress. American voters (and presumably the taxpayers who provide the funds) elected the President who commands and the Democrats who fund. Mr. Toles could have chosen to mock all three, the President, the Congress and the American voter/taxpayer or any one of the three. His choice for mockery most definitely did not include the institution of the United States Army; his cartoon was a grotesque insult to the women and men serving.
And, no, I won’t hold my breath waiting for the liberal extremist to apologize to the U.S. military. (End of letter.)
Finally, anyone want to bet that Sen. John F. Kerry’s first reaction to the cartoon would have been different than, “Hey, the US Army isn’t smart enough to count to 1 billion”? Recall, he thinks only the stupid join the military.
I cannot properly produce the link to the cartoon in question (the address is too long and it gets lost in my right margin) so I’m simply asking people to google “Tom Toles”, open the first returned item, click on his archives and click on the July 5, 2007 cartoon.
For those that don’t go to the cartoon, please allow me to briefly describe it. The cartoon is mocking the United States for staying in Iraq to help the Iraqis. The Iraqi Army is sitting on bench completely undressed. The “US Army” is hiding its face toward a tree with the following dialogue cloud, “999,999,999 . . . 1 Billion! Ready or not, here I go! This time I mean it!”
Wow, that’s funny Tom.
Tom cartoons for the Washington Post. His work is picked up by other “news”papers around the country. This hysterical cartoon was in the Boston Globe on July 9.
My unpublished letter to the editor:
Editor,
Your July 9, 2007 editorial cartoon by Mr. Tom Toles was an outrage and only the ill-informed would have thought it was funny.
Someone should inform Mr. Toles and whoever at the Boston Globe assesses cartoons for publication that the United States Army does not set U.S. foreign policy.
The United States Army is commanded by a Republican President and it is funded by legislation produced from a Democratically-controlled Congress. American voters (and presumably the taxpayers who provide the funds) elected the President who commands and the Democrats who fund. Mr. Toles could have chosen to mock all three, the President, the Congress and the American voter/taxpayer or any one of the three. His choice for mockery most definitely did not include the institution of the United States Army; his cartoon was a grotesque insult to the women and men serving.
And, no, I won’t hold my breath waiting for the liberal extremist to apologize to the U.S. military. (End of letter.)
Finally, anyone want to bet that Sen. John F. Kerry’s first reaction to the cartoon would have been different than, “Hey, the US Army isn’t smart enough to count to 1 billion”? Recall, he thinks only the stupid join the military.
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