Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 20, 2011

Long term memory: Henry Kissinger- war criminal.

The “Me Generation” queries the reich-wing uber-archy.

How does “Deutschland über alles!” translate into English with America substituting for Deutschland? “America over all”? Or, “America rules everyone”? Beginning to feel the resurgent neocon world hegemony in your marrow yet? Like Deutschland of the 1930s? With somebody like Rick Perry or The Newt standing in for UNO who? If so, then cry, the beloved country. For America is going the way of the Roman Empire.

America, or at least the self-called “conservative” element, has moved to the right of ol’ Barry. Remember, he came out in favor of gays in the military before he died.

“Let’s shoot for long-term memory” means: “If neocons can reduce history to an exam, then I can rewrite it as a comic strip.”

Magnify the strip and you will see the whole thing.

@DTPi and LWP: How about National Defense Authorization Act? It gives the Executive Branch more power than a Reichsfuhrer, including making citizens disappear and declaring private clubs as terrorist cells. LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, could be deemed enemies of the state. I miss the concept of America.

The last panel is also an indictment against Bush and his ‘Kick the Child in the Behind’ policy that values teaching to the test. Schools are no longer places where learning is valued. Now the only thing that counts is getting a certain score on an arbitrary test created by overpaid conservative agencies.

the whole bush admin is a joke. and, the american people elected him twice. for a war, that had no connection to al-qaida. no wmd, and lies about yellow cake uranium.

Mindless insults to Barry Goldwater (for gays in the military and women’s rights to their own bodies, whom the Republican party abandoned decades ago) and protests against ‘teaching to the test’ (i.e., giving grades without any measurements) are reasons I will never be a Democrat. But I am an Obamaphile, and Extreme Moderate – therefore disliked by both parties.

Why doesn’t Sec. Powell earn a place in this strip for his oh, so honest and reassuring but lying speech at the U.N. ? W.M.D. anyone?

The last panel doesn’t fit, so I miss the punch line. Can you please resize? Thanks.

The biggest foreign policy disaster in U.S. history was our alliance with the Soviet Union in WWII.

Nice try, GT, but even a conservative will probably recognize the professor as a CINO. Still, your point is well taken that those names need to be remembered, if for no other reason than that the next Republican president might nominate one or more of them to the Supreme Court.

“… real decisions, [were] handled by Darth Cheney … with the … approval of Colin Powell. Silly me, I thought Powell’s first name was spelled Colon.

Why did Doonesbury suddenly use a bigger panel size so that the fourth panel is not fully on the main screen?

How does he not mention Bush or Paul Bremer??? Oh, right, Bremer was just stupid in disbanding the Iraqi Army and putting a million trained soldiers out of work…..

. . . and tragically, all the NeoCon jackasses GT mentions (with special guest star John Bolton) . . . the same morons that broke the back of American fiscal solvency . . . . are all back as “foreign policy advisors” to Mitt Romney.They’re back to finish the job.

Aww, c’mon, make the strip readable within the space allotted.

Yeah, what’s up with this strip?

Gary again confirms his ultra left-wing political philosophy.

Don’t forget Bush’s brain – Karl Rove

Let’s take a walk down memory lane in terms of the economy and Bush administration too. How about the fact that we almost went into another depression? If you think things are bad now, just think if we had continued down that same road that we were heading down. Let’s hope the American people can get a long term memory in terms of that part too.

We need to kick John Boehner’s can down the road!

here too. Just click on it.

THANKS G.T., These names should be, along with Rove, and “AEI”, burned into the American memory forever, on the same page as that other “great American”- Yamamoto. This is especially true as we consider an unrestrained Persia, ’er, Iran, for all you chickenhawks.

Powell should have resigned before forwarding the lie to the U.N., but it should stand to America as that “military ethic” and devotion to command structure, just as Rommel, Westmorland, and other generals around the world and through history have bent “ethics” to accommodate “devotion to duty”.

man, you couldn’t get a bigger collection of pinkos together in a Mother Jones forum! Do any of you think that doing nothing at all was an option?

When the other side can’t think of anything that is of any consequence in regard to an argument, they resort to name calling. Liberals are beginning to wake up however. The other side will have to come up with something besides name calling if they want to be successful in terms of their agenda.

Iraq is an artificial entity, creating by Winston Churchill after he had one too many whiskeys at lunch. Even the name was created by Churchill. It means strong root or deep-rooted in Arabic. The British imposed a Hashemite Sunni monarchy on a majority Shia population. It was the West’s way of rewarding the Sharif of Mecca for his support during WW I; they gave kingdoms to his sons, carved out of the former Ottoman Empire.

Why not add some audio to the names?

Hey! I Had forgotten about Richard Perle and Douglas Feith!

I believe that all named, were “Draft Dodgers”!!!

gop has said that they will not pass the payroll tax cut, so everyone’s taxes will go up by 2%. but, they will invade iran if given the white house.

The long term memory of this conservative must have failed to retain the name of Colin Powell

“… when Iran has, and likely used, a nuclear device, it’ll be interesting to see how effective Liberal long term memory is…” Iran, if it is developing thermonuclear capability, is doing so as a counterbalance against Israel’s thermonuclear arsenal. Ever heard of the US-USSR “balance of power” doctrine? (I didn’t think so.)

“The problem with president Obama has been in many ways worse than the Bush/Cheney axis of power.” Amen.

No, THIS yellowcake: “In 2008, the United States facilitated shipping yellowcake (refined uranium ore) out of Iraq. This yellowcake had been stockpiled prior to the first Gulf War, and was declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency and under IAEA safeguards. More than 550 tons of yellowcake was removed from Iraq and eventually shipped to Canada.” Next time, look a little farther than freerepublic for your “facts”.

the last decent conservative was Eisenhower

Has anyone seen the vaguest similarity in Czarist Russia and the present U.S.?

A great Doonesbury.

no need to idiots follow idiots