Pat Oliphant by Pat Oliphant
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Called "the most influential cartoonist now working" by The New York Times, Pat Oliphant occupies a unique position among today’s editorial cartoonists: Widely considered the dean of the profession, he is one of its sharpest, most daring practitioners.
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Ken Warren said, 3 days ago
The gift from Cheney/Bush keeps on giving.
ray32648 said, 3 days ago
Maybe you forget the pair that didn’t prevent those 3000 deaths even though they were warned it was in the works. Were they “traitors” as well?
cartwrights
said,
3 days ago
And it wasn’t just americans who died that day, either. There were people of other nationalities in the twin towers, including Muslims.
M Kitt
said,
3 days ago
Don’t know why I bother, Scott, you sanctimonious little fundamentalist twit, but you and the rest of the chickenhawks should “mount up” and put your’ sorry little asses on the firing line instead of sending more of our troops to support right wing policies and wars that W & Cheney “War Incorporated” dragged the rest of us into.
Then come home and discuss your’ “traitor” label with people who know the difference, if you survive.
revertemark said, 3 days ago
does anyone in D.C. read history ?
the romans could not subdue the parthians . every empire from britain [ twice ] to the soviet union that has attempted to go into afghanistan has gotten their bleeep kicked .
i am sick of american hubris practiced by way upper–clbleeep people who have no feel for the common man . as of yesterday…since 2001…the “wars ” in iraq/afghanistan have cost american taxpayers 950 BILLION dollars .
enough is enough !
mark mac
HOWGOZIT said, 2 days ago
ray–no, no one could forget Clinton and Gore.
olfart said, 2 days ago
There is nothing in Afghanistan to win. Rocks. Dope. Fanatics. Which of those items does the U.S. need badly enough to die for?
HOWGOZIT said, 2 days ago
Right on olfart–we have enough fanatical dopey rocks in Congress now.
Red Stook said, 2 days ago
The politicos come and go but business as usual triumphs.
lalas said, 2 days ago
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Until they become my enemy:
Joe Stalin
Manuel Noriega
Osama Bin Laden
Karzai?
vhammon
said,
2 days ago
Olfart-
Trans-Afghanistan oil and gas pipelines.
omQ R
said,
2 days ago
Do you see Punk offering a poppy?
Pardon my ignorance, but does the poppy flower also represent veterans in the USA?
Today’s the 4th of November, Remembrance Day is a week away on the 11th November. I read on wiki the poppy as a symbol for WW-I was based on a Canadian’s poem…
”Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event it commemorates) or Veterans Day – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)”
The poppy’s significance to Remembrance Day is a result of Canadian military physician John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare.
And of course the poppy in Afghanistan symbolises something else…
The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, the red flowered Corn poppy
The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum
DrCanuck said, 2 days ago
In Flanders’ fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row….
Every Canadian child can recite McCrae.
Corosive Frog said, 2 days ago
^ it’s on our ten dollar bills
d_legendary1 said, 2 days ago
@Frog From the heroine addicts?
teslagirl
said,
2 days ago
The mark of successful scum is how well they manage to find people to protect them, fund them and share the blame with them. Too bad the CIA still thinks of this guy as a resource.
ahab
said,
2 days ago
Marvelous cartoon. Fun fact to know omQ R. Orange above!
illostr8 said, 2 days ago
Who the hell allow these idiots in the office(government) anyway , we’re fighting a pointless war anyway!!!!!!
Ronshua
said,
2 days ago
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
DrCanuck said, 1 day ago
Just as a philosophical point for anyone who cares to think about it: the last verse is never recited in Canada.
fritzoid said, 1 day ago
This is more appropriate to Oly’s 11/3 cartoon, but…
HAPPY GUY FAWKES DAY!!!
I wonder how the RC outreach to the disaffected C of E will appear by the light of these particular fires…
motivemagus said, 1 day ago
Poppies are not symbolic on Veteran’s Day in the US, but of course Oliphant is an Australian by birth (US citizen now). I’ve been to Adelaide…I understand why he left…
fritzoid said, 1 day ago
You can still see the occasional U.S. Vet selling poppies (from trays?) leading up to Nov. 11, but they’re rarer.
Corosive Frog said, 1 day ago
No, the poem “in Flanders Field” is on the canadian ten dollar bill.
comYics said, 1 day ago
Well at least a foreigner is making better cash than you from America.
Cpt. Jay said, about 21 hours ago
I agree with Matthew Hoh about the Obama Admin’s handling of the war…
buffalo102 said, about 16 hours ago
As a Viet-nam vet, I cannot believe that the Generals who think they can win this “war” don’t see, or refuse to see, the striking similarities to Nam. A population and it’s leaders, that sit on their asses while American troops fight their battles for them. Corruption is a way of life in that part of the world. Get out now and leave that s**t-hole to the natives.
deadheadzan
said,
about 15 hours ago
After Viet Nam I thought our leaders would never jump in to a war of opportunity in Iraq. I was wrong. Cheney, the Viet Nam draft dodger wanted his friends at Halliburton to gorge on war profiteering.