Ted Rall for June 13, 2009
Transcript:
We'll be out of Iraq by next year* (Man: We're not really here... we don't fit an easy, simple narrative.) (* but 35,000-50,000 support troops will remain and 21,000 more will be sent to Afghanistan.) GITMO will close* (Man 2: Gimme torture in a U.S. airbase in Afghanistan over a U.S. naval base in Cuba every time!) (* but the detainees will be transferred to a new camp in Afghanistan.) Torture is now illegal* (Barack Obama: And I'll never waterboard all yee-ha redneck-y like Bush- only calm and cool-like. (* But Obama reserves the right to use enchanced interrogation techniques) Habeous Corpus is back* (Man 3: This is what you get when you elect a lawyer!) (* But you can now be held in prolonged detention forever.)
The sad commentary on our times is that Ted Rall hit the ball out of the park in each of his four panels above. But let us take cheer from the fact that the US government is fighting unceasingly for something it calls «human rights» and «democracy» around the world (to the tune of a million million dollars annually (just the military costs) - either scooped from the pockets of US taxpayers or borrowed from their Chinese counterparts - one can’t help wondering who’s getting a slice of the action)….
Henri