Maria's Day Comic Strip, November 20, 2012 on GoComics.com

simpsonfan2 said, 6 months ago

If you want to get technical about it, John Hanson was.

vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago

w….he got a lot of things wrong. no wmd in iraq. and, really screwed up things for jeb and anyone else with the bush name.

Half Caper Farm said, 6 months ago

She does have a point!

ottod said, 6 months ago

If she’d just stopped at, “George W.” she’d probably have gotten credit. It was putting, “Bush” in that messed things up.

Thomas Scott Roberts said, 6 months ago

Actually, Maria just wrote “W.” She wasn’t sure how to spell George.

phritzg said, 6 months ago

@Thomas Scott Roberts

Still wrong; the correct answer would have been Dick Cheney.

Darren Blair said, 6 months ago

@vwdualnomand

Actually, even the UN had to admit that Iraq still had stuff.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/08/nerve-gas-scare/
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The UN itself found a quantity of phosgene gas in Iraqi hands during a late 1990s inspection tour. The gas was sent back to a laboratory operated by the UN, where it was promptly lost for a full decade until a janitor found the container while helping to pack the facility up for relocation.
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As you can imagine, more than a few conspiracy theories were launched by this news, since people came to suspect that the UN knew where the phosgene was the entire time and kept it hidden so that we couldn’t claim Hussein was in violation of the bans.
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What’s more, shortly after we took Iraq at least one group of militants tried to turn a mustard gas shell into an IED; it was tripped, but didn’t work because the gas had deteriorated.

Marc said, 6 months ago

@vwdualnomand

And how does that relate at all to today’s strip, which is a gag based on Maria’s life span? Oh that’s right, it doesn’t. Just because Bush’s name comes up in a comic, it doesn’t make it a license to turn the comments political.

And yes, I know, “free speech” and “I don’t have to read the comments if I don’t like what people are saying”.

However, I like this comic, and I like the commentary that is related to the gag that John and Scott originally wrote. Therefore, when I get to your comment, which is right near the beginning of the list, I vomit a little in my mouth, because you decided to turn an innocent joke into political commentary.

And now I apologize for going off…

Marc said, 6 months ago

And now to get back to the comic, this means that the first president was actually Jimmy Carter. Anyone care to debate me?

Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

@Darren Blair

Sure we knew they had the gas. Reagan sold it to Him hoping he would use it against Iran.(Iraq was our friend then) He used it against his own Kurd s. (That turned him into an enemy).

Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

@Marc

Sure I’ll debate….everyone knows the first president was Truman but the first we remember was Ike. LOL

Stella S said, 6 months ago

If we go by my personal experiences, the first person to discover America was me and my mom. We drove across the Peace Bridge and discovered Buffalo New York.