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   alcors3 said, 7 months ago

   Works for Planned Parenthood.
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   Clark Kent said, 7 months ago

   rall (lower case r deliberate) you are sick and disturbed.
   This so called ’toon is deranged
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   walruscarver2000 said, 7 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   You’ve said it all.
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   Lavocat said, 7 months ago

   The Taliban are terrorists. The American Government are terrorists with drone (and who are, apparently, just as bad at targetting Bad Guys without killing lots of innocents).
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   edinbaltimore said, 7 months ago

   Agreed. Especially putting the cocktail in O’s hand!
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   Gary Kleppe said, 7 months ago

   Drone warfare (like any other kind of warfare against civilians) is sick and deranged. Rall is just the messenger.
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   Darsan54 said, 7 months ago

   Rall is taking this in the totally wrong direction.
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   Chillbilly said, 7 months ago

   The strip is a good combo of funny and disturbing — the best kind. RE: the cocktail, just ten minutes ago I was looking at the picture of Obama and Romney in tuxes with cocktails yucking it up at the Al Smith banquet. So yeah, reality can be disturbing and funny at the same time.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   With an effing COCKTAIL IN HIS HAND? You gotta be kidding me, Mr. Rall! I know that you despise the drone strikes, and I’m with you on this most of the time, I too would prefer trials and the truth out in the open, but I really don’t think the President is that cavalier about ending someones life!
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    Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    Yeah…gotta agree with you on this one, Clark.
    ick….
    just…
    ick.
    C.
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    jrmerm said, 7 months ago

    This is sick but funny. Isn’t that usually the essence of Rall? And yes it’s exaggerated and unrealistic. They would actually wait until she was out of the ambulance, on the gurney going into the hospital. And the Prez would have a smoke of some kind in his hand rather than a drink.
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    Fourcrows said, 7 months ago

    I think Ted’s message is that the drone attacks do just as much collateral damage as the directed terror attacks are doing. In a sense, it’s kind of pointing out that she had just as much chance of being hit by us as the Taliban.
    You can replace Obama with whoever may be President at any time we have used military force that injured or killed civilians, but the added irony I think Mr. Rall points out is that this one has a Nobel Peace Prize in his office.
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    John Orr said, 7 months ago

    By all accounts, what the Taliban did was dead stupid. By targeting this young lady, they have galvanized more of the population of the Middle East against them. Rall is off the mark here. Obama would not take out the ‘poster child’ against the Taliban. And what’s the deal with the cocktail? Obama doesn’t care?
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago

    Remember that in the late ‘50s early ’60s we killed little black children for wanting an education in this nation!
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    Mothers and fathers lined up and spat on the little black children as they walked up to that school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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    In this country it is not exceptional any day to pick up a newspaper and read of a terrible murder of a young person just because they are gay.
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    I do understand Ted’s direction in this toon, but I do think it is a false equivalency. We as individuals have the capacity to be as barbaric as anyone. Our government has killed millions of Iraqis of all ages for no reason other than that there were in Iraq at the wrong time! SOMEONE should have to be brought to account for crimes committed in our name!
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    I agree.
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    Just like I agree that, even though I like him and his politics, Bob Kerry did a terrible thing in Thanh Phong. By all rights he should be prosecuted for war crimes, Just like the Nazis are hunted down for theirs.
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    But if I had the chance, I’d vote for Bob Kerry in the senate race.
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    Call it cognitive dissonance and then praise Ted Rall for not having it. Call it hypocrisy on my part… Guilty.
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    If Ted Rall is like me, then he recognizes that there is a great amount of holding one’s nose and hopefully working towards a better day! His method of working towards that is to hold up what makes the stink that forces us to hold our individual noses as we try to improve the collective.
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    ruff said, 7 months ago

    Ted, see your shrink soon. You need it.
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