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Black &White World II
Black &White World II

Editorial Cartoons by
COX & FORKUM

Nashville, Tennessee
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2004 John Cox and Allen Forkum All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission from the publisher. ISBN 0-9724569-1-0 First published in November 2004 Digitally printed in the United States Published by
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1121 Airport Center Drive Nashville, TN 37214 (615) 843-0697 www.CoxAndForkum.com Book design by Allen Forkum Illustrations by John Cox Cover illustration by John Cox from cartoon Unfinished Business on page 154.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION by Felix Grabowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi PREFACE by Allen Forkum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii EDITORIAL CARTOONS September 2002 to November 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 OTHER ART TIA: The Intellectual Activist covers, comments by Robert W. Tracinski . . . . . . . . . . .212 LGF: Little Green Footballs weblog, comments by Charles Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218 ETC.: T-Shirt designs, Buster Cartoons, & More . . .222 INTERVIEWS Deans World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234 Eye on the Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236 EGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238 About Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241 APPENDIX Anti-Bushites for Bush by Robert W. Tracinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
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Introduction
Uncle Sam Is No Wimp
Browse through the toons presented in this book and pay attention to the treatment Uncle Sam gets from Cox & Forkum. That will tell you a lot about where they stand on any number of issues. Uncle Sam is really a caricature of a caricature. Each political cartoonist since about 1834 has assigned certain values to him, reinforcing certain perceptions to match whatever issue is at hand. Hes either a hero or a buffoon, wise or befuddled, sinister or trustworthy. And the old man has taken plenty of abuse over the years. In the 1980s, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant even went so far as to make his Uncle Sam a caricature of W.C. Fields, complete with a bulbous nose and a bottle sticking out of his pocket. As a symbol for America, Uncle Sam is a useful clich way too useful to be shelved. Its no surprise then that John Cox draws his own, different version of Uncle Sam. In Cox & Forkum toons, hes younger, more powerful, with bulging muscles and a top hat cocked at a rakish angle. His sleeves are rolled up and hes getting down to business. He deals from a position of strength. And, quite frankly, this Uncle Sam is pissed. Unfortunately, theres plenty to be pissed about. Thats what the best political cartoonists point out. They want you to get pissed, too. This is no time to be wishy-washy. Take a stand. Appeasement be damned. This is a war in defense of common sense. Politicians, the press, economists, doomsayers, jihadistsespecially jihadistsare prime targets in that war. In Cox & Forkum toons, the Right comes in for nearly as much criticism as the Left. But when Allen Forkum points out failings in foreign policy or a wavering in the support of Israel, its President Bush who takes the hit, not Uncle Sam. Thats a subtle, but important, distinction. Put the blame where it belongs. Politicians come and go, but Uncle Sam prevails. And its this Uncle Sam, not some transient politician, that jihadists are forced to face. That stance is worth noting as the sense of national unity that flourished immediately after 9/11 continues to fade. As the apologists and appeasers regain their footing and patriotic sentiment slips out of vogue, Cox & Forkum draw the line in defense of The Americans Creed. The blogosphere gives them the opportunity to present their graphic opinions in a new way, linking to news reports and blog posts from a variety of sources to put their statements into context. But even when the cartoons stand alone in print publications like The Detroit News and Investors Business Daily, they stand strong as the visual equivalent of a well-turned phrase. The cartoons here attack issues from Uncle Sams perspective. Not the donkeys, not the elephantsUncle Sams. And Cox & Forkum make one thing perfectly clear: You dont mess with Uncle Sam.
Felix Grabowski
October 2004
Felix Grabowski is the creative director of detnews.com, The Detroit News Web site. Hes also the author of Cartoons for the Classroom, a joint effort by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) and NIEonline that provides lesson plans based on political cartoons to teachers through the Newspapers in Education programs (nieonline.com/niecftc/cftc.cfm).
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Preface
A lot has happened for us in the two years since we published the first collection of Cox & Forkum cartoons. Since launching our Web site in March 2003, our work has been picked up by a number of publications and Web sites, including The Detroit News, The Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, and others in America and Europe. The Web site (www.coxandforkum.com) has become an immediate outlet for our cartoons, giving us an opportunity to comment on events as they happen. The site has generated over two million hits, and this volume contains virtually all of the cartoons that have appeared there. But theres also work here that has not been seen before, including a few cartoons that missed the mark. Black & White World II differs from our first book in a number of ways. Besides having four times the cartoons, this book is also arranged chronologically, picking up where the last book left off September 2002 to November 2004. That means we have forgone categorizing the cartoons into thematic sections with accompanying commentaries by me and John Cox. Instead, comments here appear as captions beside individual cartoons and are written by me unless otherwise noted. To learn more about John and me, and how we work together, see the interviews in the back of the book. Theres also an index for finding cartoons by people, countries, characters, and organizations. Were honored to have additional commentary in this book. In the Other Art section, youll find a subsection devoted to a sampling of our cover art for The Intellectual Activist, an Objectivist review. Editor and Publisher Robert W. Tracinski introduces the subsection, discussing how abstract ideas contained inside the magazine have to be essentialized and concretized on the magazines cover. In November 2001, TIA was the first publication to print a Cox & Forkum cartoon. For anyone who wants to keep up with world events from an individualist perspective, we highly recommend The Intellectual Activist and its e-mail counterpart, TIA Daily (www.tiadaily.com). In the Appendix youll find an editorial by Robert titled Anti-Bushites for Bush. The philosophy and politics in the editorial provide an indication of where our cartoons are coming from and where they are going.
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Another subsection in Other Art features cartoons weve created for Charles Johnson at the Little Green Footballs blog (www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog). Charles explains some of the inside jokes associated with his blog, which is dedicated to fighting Islamists and their apologists. The site is a valuable resource for keeping track of the latest news in the war on terrorism. LGF was the first major Web site to post C&F cartoons, which is why weve created a few custom cartoons for Charles and his lizardoid minions. The last Other Art subsection includes: t-shirt designs, cartoons for the Buster McNutt humor column published in AutoGraphics Automotive Report newspapers, and a variety of other illustrations that didnt fit elsewhere. John and I want to thank all of our regular readers. Were grateful to have an audience and hope that we continue to entertain you with our drawn opinions.
Allen Forkum
November 2004
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Editorial Cartoons
September 2002 to November 2004
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Memo to Arafat
September 23, 2002
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Collateral Damage
September 30, 2002 This cartoon was never published, so we used the mudslinging motif again in a Kerry cartoon, Preemptive Diplomacy, on page 195.
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Pacifiers
October 3, 2002
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Hoodwink
October 11, 2002 We were just as convinced as everyone else that Saddam was hiding large stockpiles of WMDs. And for all we know, he still is. But for now it looks like Leftists werent the only ones being hoodwinked by the Butcher of Baghdad.
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IgNobel
October 11, 2002 Yasser Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize, too. And he was a terrorist.
Ugly Please
October 12, 2002 Bushs groveling to other nations about our war on terrorism was shameful. We are a sovereign nation, and we have a right to defend ourselvesunilaterally and preemptively if necessary. Though Bush says he advocates the latter, his actions dont always show it.
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St. Saddam
October 14, 2002 Another unpublished cartoon that we later reworked for a Michael Moore cartoon (see Childs Play on page 189).
Tommy Two-Tone
October 15, 2002 With apologies to the band Tommy Tutone.
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Voter Mandate
October 18, 2002
Useful
October 22, 2002
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War Pointers
October 23, 2002 When posted on our blog, we re-titled this one Hes Spartacus.
Cost of War
October 24, 2002 This was inspired by the cover of a magazine featuring an adding machine tape that tallied the cost of the war on terrorism, as if it was only an issue of money.
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Monstrous
October 24, 2002 It was difficult to think of a cartoon about the D.C. snipers murder spree. But from a childs perspective, we imagined that it was yet another nightmare come true.
WMH
October 24, 2002
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Blindside
October 25, 2002 This was the first of many cartoons to appear on the Little Green Footballs weblog hosted by Charles Johnson (see the LGF section on page 218). Some readers objected to the inclusion of the Republican elephant. Yet Bush was reluctant to give much significance to the religious basis of Islamic terrorists, calling Islam a religion of peace that has been hijacked by extremists. I think this blinds him to the real danger Islamismthe concerted efforts of Islamic fundamentalists to establish theocracy by law and terror, whether in American or Iraq.
Duplomacy
October 25, 2002 Speaking of blind sides, former President Jimmy Carter has one for socialist dictators of every stripe. So much so that we created a variation on this theme involving Fidel Castro (see Duplomacy II on page 52).
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Electioneering
October 31, 2002 We anticipated legal challenges from Democrats after the 2002 congressional elections, but the challenges didnt materialize because Republicans generally won by large margins. Similar concerns arose in the 2004 presidential election.
Multilateral Man
October 31, 2002 This is the first appearance of President Bush as Multilateral Man. The Left thinks of Bush as the supreme unilateralist and compared to them, he is. But Bush often justifies his actions in multilateralist terms, such as making U.N. approval a priority.
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Expedient
November 1, 2002 Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and daughter. Prominent Democrats turned his memorial service into a political rally against the GOP, even booing some Republicans who were in attendance. Walter Mondale was tapped to replace Wellstone in the thenimminent elections. Mondale lost, and blame was placed on negative voter reaction to the politicized memorial.
Captains of Industry
November 4, 2002 This cartoon and the following one were created for Richard Salsman, CEO of InterMarket Forecasting.
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Consumer Confidence
November 4, 2002
Follow the Leader

November 12, 2002
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K.O.
November 12, 2002 Our regular blog readers may recognize this smiling elephant from our header.
PeTA Principle
November 18, 2002 We posted this cartoon on our blog as Bear Hunt in December 2003, on the occasion of New Jersey opening its first bear hunt in 33 years.
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Tragedy of Errors
November 19, 2002 Another instance of Uncle Sam acting as our voice in a cartoon.
Last Call
November 21, 2002 In the war on terrorism, our military was able to track a cell phone call from an al-Qaeda member and use the signal to guide a missile. Kind of puts concern about cell phone use causing brain damage into perspective, doesnt it?
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Varmint
November 22, 2002 In April 2003, feminist Martha Burk organized protests against Augusta National Golf Club for its exclusion of women. Sports Illustrated reported afterward that her protests drown[ed] in a sea of silliness.
Its Academic
November 25, 2002 In April 2003, Columbia Professor Nicholas De Genova declared: The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishusthe latter being a reference to the Black Hawk Down incident, a 1993 battle in Somalia in which 18 American soldiers were killed. In response, then-President Bill Clinton pulled out U.S. troops. Though hundreds of Somali attackers were killed, it was considered a political victory by anti-Americans.
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Blood for Oil

November 26, 2002 One of the few times weve shown Uncle Sam taking a hit.
UNrelevant
December 2, 2002 And the search goes on, both in the WMD sense and in the U.N.-relevance sense.
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Out of Whack
December 4, 2002 National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testified to the 9/11 Commission that Bush did not want to take a swatting-flies approach to fighting terrorists (an implicit and justified criticism of Clinton). But until we deal with all state sponsors of terrorism (not just Iraq and Afghanistan), thats exactly what we will end up doing.
Calling the Bluff

December 5, 2002 It may have been a bigger bluff than anybody realized. We later revisited the poker motif with Iran (see High Stakes on page 194).
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Plunder.gov
December 7, 2002 Socialistic governments are always on the lookout for new sources of revenue.
Declaration of Indirection
December 9, 2002
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Sorry Lott
December 12, 2002 At Strom Thurmonds 100th birthday tribute, Senator Trent Lott praised him: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. Were proud of it. The problem was that Thurmond ran as a segregationist in 1948, at the time stating: All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches. Lott was forced to apologize.
Big Pox
December 16, 2002 Heres a good example of our tendency to use anachronistic elements. Notice the syringe and the nurses hat. Its not that were trying to be chronologically confusing; its that some older visual references read quicker than the newer ones.
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Freedom Fighters
December 16, 2002 It strikes us as grossly hypocritical how Leftists will protest in America as if they live under a tyrannical government, all the while ignoring the causes of those who really are fighting for their freedom.
Voice in the Wilderness

December 17, 2002
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Baghdad Sean
December 22, 2002 Actor/director Sean Penn opposed the invasion of Iraq and visited Baghdad prior to the invasion, apparently to raise awareness of his opposition. Naturally, Penn was given the guided tour; he brought back no footage of the rape rooms and iron maidens.
Scarecrowing
December 26, 2002 This cartoon was never published, so we used the idea on another cartoon (see UNscary on page 151). But the original remains the stronger of the two because its simpler and more direct.
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Happy New Year?

December 30, 2002
All Quiet on the Western Front

December 31, 2002 Anti-war activists will gather in the thousands in cities all over the world to protest American military actions in its self-defense. But let North Korea or Iran threaten nuclear attacks ...
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On High
December 31, 2002 A very bad aspect of Bushs presidency is his insistence on injecting religion into government, whether its to ban cloning or use government funds for faith-based initiatives. Theocracy is antithetical to American secularism and individualism. Thats why the Islamists who we are fighting hate and fear us.
Atomic Touch
January 6, 2003 North Korea has made an art out of nuclear blackmail. Starve and kill your citizens until there is an epic-scale humanitarian crisis. Threaten to use nukes if you dont get humanitarian aid. Then after the West capitulates and the communist leaders have consumed all the aid, start the con all over again. (See a follow-up cartoon, Atomic Touch II, on page 128.)
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Super Woes
January 6, 2003 As you can see, well use any excuse to draw some super heroes.
Diplomatic Fallout
January 7, 2003 The only thing preventing this from happening is the prospect that North Korea will bite off the hand that feeds it.
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Prezy Dos
January 9, 2003 No matter who is in the Oval Office, its got to be tough dealing with all the problems everyone expects you to solve.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Kim

January 13, 2003 We know its futile to look for logic in the rantings of Kim Jong Il. But sometimes hes so outrageously contradictory, we cant resist calling attention to it.
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Tax Burden
January 14, 2003 Were always happy to see tax cuts, but spending cuts must accompany them if were to avoid huge budget deficits.
Empties
January 18, 2003 There were a bunch of empty warhead editorial cartoons after this story broke. Even Leftists tagged Bush with the label at anti-war protests.
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St. Green
January 18, 2003 Environmentalism has become so much of a secular religion that enviro-groups are trying to get public funds via Bushs faith-based initiative programs. The socialistic and churchstate issues are bad enough without the dirt-worshippers getting in on the act.
Peace Movement
January 20, 2003
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Innocents
January 27, 2003 This was the first cartoon of ours to appear in a Newspapers in Education Cartoons for the Classroom project (nieonline.com/niecftc/cftc.cfm). Felix Grabowski creates the projects, which are for teachers to use in discussing cartoons and current events.
Axis of Veggies
January 30, 2003 Shortly after becoming president, George Bush No. 1 declared, No more broccoli on the White House menu. We figure that makes broccoli political fair game, so to speak.
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Braying in the Wind

January 31, 2003
Leftists in Space!
January 31, 2003 The Kleenor terrorists were characters in our failed attempt at a daily comic strip called Captain Speewak! More about that venture can be found in the interview beginning on page 234.
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Fallen Star
February 1, 2003 In honor of Columbia STS107 astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon.
Dudley Fed-Up
February 3, 2003 In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld complained about France and Germany being uncooperative. But you look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe, theyre not with France and Germany ... theyre with the U.S., Rumsfeld said. Youre thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I dont. I think thats old Europe.
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Moral Clarity
February 3, 2003
Argumentum ad Muddy
February 4, 2003
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Holy Land
February 7, 2003 Since were Americans who grew up in American culture, we sometimes wonder if our cartoons lose their meaning to non-Americans. Is the shooting of road signs an international phenomenon? Probably not. But we knew Americans would get it.
Smoking Gun
February 7, 2003 Theres a run of cartoons here in which we target French President Jacques Chirac. The main reason for this is that he was the most prominent opponent to the invasion of Iraq. Sometimes we concentrate on one subject for a while.
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Three Blind Men

February 10, 2003
Running Colors
February 17, 2003
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End Around
February 19, 2003 Originally, Turkey was featured as the foreground player instead of Spain. But before we posted the cartoon, Turkey balked at allowing our troops to attack Iraq from their borders, so we changed it. In March 2004, after the horrible Madrid bombings and the resulting election of a Socialist Party president, Spain pulled out of the Iraq coalition.
Statist Quo
February 19, 2003 This cartoon appeared on the Web site of nationally syndicated columnist Mark Steyn (www.steynonline.com).
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Hell to Pay
February 20, 2003
Whats the Rush?

February 24, 2003
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Wishful Thinking
February 24, 2003 Notice that the fuse is getting shorter. We include details like that intentionally. Whether anyone notices them is another matter.
Dependable Ally?
March 3, 2003
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On the Other Hand

March 3, 2003
French Fried
March 8, 2003
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The New Rorschach

March 8, 2003 This is an idea that John came up with that I thought was clever. Even though we have our editorial opinion in the cartoon, ultimately we challenge the viewer to consider his own opinion.
Not Forgotten
March 8, 2003 Pakistani and American operatives captured Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda planner allegedly responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attack and other atrocities. His capture reportedly led to the arrest of other terrorists.
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Bucking Opinion
March 11, 2003
Obstruction of Justice
March 11, 2003
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And the Loser Is ...

March 12, 2003 Our first big spike in traffic to our Web site occurred when this cartoon was posted just before Michael Moore won his Oscar for Bowling for Columbine. A talk radio show in L.A. even called to interview us on the subject.
Rotten to the Core

March 12, 2003 This is one of my favorite cartoons, but since Saddam has been deposed, its no longer appropriate to include Iraq. Whats the difference between cartoon smoke and cartoon stink? Apparently, a fly. (Though admittedly, the word rotten helps.)
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Out of the Bog

March 15, 2003 Based on a suggestion from reader Rich Mauser Chandler.
Neighborly?
March 20, 2003 We got the idea for this talking out of both sides of your mouth cartoon after noticing that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien had a tendency to speak with the left side of his mouth. Turns out the reason is not mere hypocrisy. A Canadian reader informed us that Chretien had a childhood accident that affected his facial muscles.
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Decapitated
March 21, 2003 The militarys decapitation strike didnt work. Which is too bad, because now well have to endure Saddams trial.
Revolting
March 26, 2003
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Live Free
March 27, 2003 Our first memorial to soldiers killed during the war on terrorism.
Sweet Surrender
March 27, 2003 Occasionally we will create a cartoon mostly for laughs, not to make an editorial comment. As in the first Gulf War, many Iraqi soldiers wisely surrendered rather than fight. John imagined that these three were brothers.
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Boxed In
March 31, 2003 Based on a suggestion from reader Rich Mauser Chandler.
Flipper Goes to War

March 31, 2003 Porpoises are trained by the U.S. Navy to detect mines. I doubt the porpoises wear hats though. It would give them away.
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Minister of Disinformation
March 31, 2003 Peter Arnett was a welcome casualty of the invasion of Iraq, which exposed for all the world to see whose side he was really on.
Americas Favorite Pastime

April 2, 2003 We loved this cartoon, but major combat operations in Iraq ended before it could be published. It appears here for the first time.
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Leftist Camouflage
April 3, 2003
Arrivals/Departures
April 4, 2003 Based on a suggestion from Robert W. Tracinski of The Intellectual Activist.
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Casualties of War
April 5, 2003
Sic Semper Tyrannis

April 10, 2003 Our first of three fallen Saddam statue cartoons. Naturally many cartoonist took advantage of the iconic imagery.
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Faces Defeat
April 11, 2003 Baghdad Bob (aka, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the former Iraqi information minister) provided some comedy relief during the invasion.
Falling Icons
April 11, 2003
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Report No Evil
April 15, 2003 CNN, along with other news outlets, was accused of collaborating with Saddams Ministry of Information in order to retain access to news from inside Baghdad. CNN executive Eason Jordan first denied the charge, but he later admitted that crimes committed against its own Iraqi employees by Saddams regime were not reported by CNN.
Your Attention, Please

April 17, 2003 This cartoon was very popular. We eventually made it into a t-shirt.
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Out Damned Spot

April 22, 2003
Regime Change
April 23, 2003 We were accused of being too pessimistic with this cartoon coming so soon after Saddams fall. But in a predominately Shiite Muslim country, it wasnt a stretch to suggest that theocracy might be on their agenda. The fighting with alSadrs Islamist militia at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf showed our warning was (and still is) warranted.
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Iraqi Freedom
April 24, 2003
Up a Creek
April 28, 2003
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Mask Hysteria
April 29, 2003 If its not SARS, its something else.
Duplomacy II
May 1, 2003
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Arafats Road Map

May 5, 2003
Blairs Even-handedness
May 5, 2003
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Over the Rainbow

May 7, 2003 There were so many Democrat presidential candidates that it was difficult to tell them apart at the beginning, and President Bush seemed unbeatable
Buried Treasure
May 8, 2003 Though it was months away, American military forces ultimately found their father in a hole in the ground. Uday and Qusay met another fate.
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Yapping
May 9, 2003
State of Denial
May 13, 2003
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Unfit to Print
May 13, 2003 New York Times journalist Jayson Blair was busted for fabricating stories. Not too surprising in an age when reality is considered negotiable.
Mixed Message
May 19, 2003
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Negative Reinforcements
May 20, 2003 Little did we know that Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry would use the false claim that President Bush blundered in Tora Bora, allowing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to escape.
Bad News/Good News

May 23, 2003
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Warning, Warning
May 23, 2003 This was before we knew that Howard Dean would be a contender. Or that Dean would eventually not be a contender. Or that Ralph Nader would run and present problems for Kerry. The cartoon makes it appear were somewhat prescient. Were not. No, really.
Brothers in Arms
May 25, 2003
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Diplomatic Suicide
May 27, 2003
Missteps
May 27, 2003
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Wrong Turn
May 29, 2003 Weve been criticizing Bushs push for a Palestinian state since 2001. The eventually abandoned Road Map for Peace was just another manifestation of the same bad idea.
Grave Evidence
May 30, 2003 We reposted this cartoon in October 2004 when it was reported by the BBC that, a mass grave being excavated in a north Iraqi village has yielded evidence that Iraqi forces executed women and children under Saddam Hussein. ... The skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys are being unearthed, the investigators said. They are seeking evidence to try Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity. European investigators refused to assist in the excavation because the evidence might be used eventually to put Saddam Hussein to death.
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Political Asylum
May 30, 2003
Spending Disorder
May 30, 2003 Another of Bushs (and Republicans) problems: supporting tax cuts without government spending cuts. Both are necessary to curtail socialism and deficits.
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Taxula
June 1, 2003 John drew the economy so attractively, its almost difficult to blame Taxula for taking a bite.
Blame Game
June 2, 2003
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French Dish
June 2, 2003
Living His Story

June 5, 2003
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Dj Oslo
June 10, 2003
New Face?
June 10, 2003
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Say Uncle
June 10, 2003
Sightings
June 13, 2003 We thought all three of these guys were dead at the time.
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Pride
June 16, 2003
Lighting the Way

June 17, 2003
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Down to Size
June 19, 2003 Martha Stewart was ultimately convicted, so we were wrong about her enemies effectiveness if not their stature
Wizard Hunt
June 23, 2003 Inspired by an advertisement on the NewsMax Web site for a DVD titled Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged (Making Evil Look Innocent). In contrast, The Ayn Rand Institute (www.aynrand.com) had an editorial by Dianne L. Durante on the virtues of the Harry Potter series: Vitamins, Minerals and Harry Potter. We recommend the latter.
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Affirmative Racism
June 25, 2003 This cartoon caused a bit of a stir at Texas A&M when it appeared in the student newspaper, The Battalion. It was condemned by the dean of students and defended by the newspaper.
Remnants
June 26, 2003 We got this one wrong. Though vastly out-powered by American forces, insurgents and terrorists were far from being on their last leg, and American forces were hamstrung by the politics of appeasement.
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Judicial Roulette
June 30, 2003
Mnage Bob
July 1, 2003 Based on a suggestion from reader Rich Mauser Chandler.
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Uncivil War
July 3, 2003
Strike!
July 7, 2003 We are supportive of the Iranian freedom movement and have created a number of cartoons on the subject. We advocate the establishment of a secular government in Iran that recognizes individual rights. For more information, see www.deathtotheocracy.com.
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Priorities
July 9, 2003 The media were far more interested in the tragic failure to separate conjoined Iranian twins than they were about the beating and imprisonment of students in Iran.
Desperately Seeking Scandal

July 14, 2003 Remember the 16 words from Bushs speech? We dont either.
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Do Not Read This

July 14, 2003
Bush, Too
July 20, 2003
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Snap Judgment
July 21, 2003 It didnt break after all. In fact, Democrats were able to beat Bush over the head with that branch, though it didnt win them the presidential election.
Body Count
July 22, 2003
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From America With Love

July 22, 2003
Acorns Fall
July 23, 2003 With apologies to high-speed photography pioneer Harold Edgerton.
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QuagmireTV
July 23, 2003 We wanted to highlight how the media were hypersensitive to reporting any negative news out of Iraq. But some readers mistook this cartoon to mean that we were equating a toestubbing with the death of a soldier. We learned that its impossible to avoid all misinterpretations.
Backlash
July 28, 2003
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National Insecurity
July 29, 2003 It turns out that America didnt get drawn into another foreign war in which we have no direct national self-interests, e.g., Bosnia. But Bush seemed all too willing to do so.
Save Us
July 29, 2003 In much of the media coverage of Liberia, there was an underlying implication that America was morally obligated to intervene to stop the violence for humanitarian reasons. But as Peter Schwartz of The Ayn Rand Institute wrote in an op-ed titled Foreign Policy and Self-Interest: [O]ur government has a moral obligation not to send its forces into areas that pose no threats to Americas wellbeing. It is Americas selfinterest that should be the standard for all foreign-policy decisionsand not just because such a standard is practical, but because it is moral.
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Left of Center
July 31, 2003 From a FoxNews report: [Howard Dean] seems to be pulling some of the other candidates back to the old Democratic ways that did not workhigh taxes, big spending, weaknesses on security, [presidential candidate Joe] Lieberman said. I feel a real responsibility to speak out for the best traditions of the Democratic Party. Lieberman lost the tug-of-war. Even John Kerry ended up being pulled leftward by Dean.
Dam Leftists
August 1, 2003
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Saddams Big Heart

August 3, 2003 That Saddam has a big heart was an actual quote from his daughter.
Master of Disguise
August 6, 2003 Oops! Saddam wasnt dead after all. He did grow a beard though.
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Running Man
August 8, 2003 Gratuitous movie references that make no point whatsoever.
Unneighbors
August 8, 2003
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War Manners
August 8, 2003
Hudna
August 13, 2003 Hudnas are cease-fires often taken by Westerners as a sign that the peace process is working. What is actually happening is that the Islamists are simply regrouping to restart a fight they dont intend to stop.
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Food Fight
August 13, 2003
In the Dark
August 14, 2003 This cartoon is briefly discussed in an interview on page 237.
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Divisive
August 18, 2003 Ralph Nader ended up running as a Reform Party candidate instead of a Green Party candidate, but his impact was still damaging to Democrat John Kerrys campaign. This cartoon is based on Benjamin Franklins Unite or Die cartoon, which is considered Americas first political cartoon. It featured a snake, not a donkey, and according to the book Drawn & Quartered: The cartoon is based on a popular superstition that a snake that had been severed would come back to life if the pieces were put together before sunset. Not so with donkeys.
Dr. Bureaucracy
August 19, 2003
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Palestinian Diplomacy
August 20, 2003 On August 19, a Hamas suicide-bomber detonated himself in a bus full of Orthodox Jews. CNN reported: Strollers were scattered near the stricken bus, medics carried away children with blood-smeared faces, and a baby girl died in a hospital before doctors could find her parents. At least five children were among the 18 dead. ... Forty children were among more than 100 people injured. The dead included five Americans. This cartoon originally appeared with the colors red and green to represent the Palestinian flag.
Co-opting King
August 25, 2003 At a Washington celebration of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther Kings famous speech, The New York Times reported that the lengthy list of speakers ... reflected the diversity of causes ushered in over the last 40 years. ... But columnist Thomas Sowell wasnt impressed. In an op-ed titled Old rhetoric in new times he wrote: The speakers ... clearly rejected the idea of a color-blind society. These were no longer demands for equal treatment but for special benefits, based on the color of their skin.
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Courting Trouble
August 25, 2003 FoxNews reported: Espousing his reverence of God above earthly authorities, Alabamas Chief Justice Roy Moore said removing the Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building is just plain wrong. ... Moore installed the monument in the buildings rotunda two years ago, and was suspended by a state judicial ethics panel last week for disobeying a federal court order to remove the 5,300-pound granite marker. Moore ultimately, and rightly, lost his battle.
Polluted Minds
August 25, 2003
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Chief Injustice
August 26, 2003
Prey for Peace

August 29, 2003
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Faulty Thinking
September 1, 2003 Thats right. Its the same shrine in Najaf that our soldiers were forced to treat with reverence even after al-Sadr and his Medhi Army used it as a base of operations. Its such one-sided, altruistic, cultural sensitivity that is Americas Achilles heel.
Two-Faced
September 1, 2003
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PeTR
September 2, 2003 FoxNews reported that transportation and environmental groups gathered in Lake Placid at the Conference on Ecology and Transportation to discuss life and death issues as they relate to snakes, frogs and turtles. ... Critics blasted the events $100,000 price tag. That didnt seem to sway Nelson Hoffman of the Vermont Transportation Agency, who was on hand to explain how putting up fences helped his state preserve the life of its waning frog population. Its making sure frogs are fat and not flat, he said. That story was just begging for a cartoon.
UNfree, Part II
September 4, 2003 This was a follow-up to a cartoon of Uncle Sam cutting his U.N. bonds (see our first book). Bush was quick to offer authority in Iraq to the United Nations, as if we didnt have a right to retain authority over the occupation.
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Moving On
September 8, 2003 Moving on has been part of Americas problem for decades. We moved on when Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut. We moved on when the World Trade Center was bombed the first time, murdering six. We moved on when the Khobar Towers were blown up in Saudi Arabia: 19 dead. We moved on from the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa, and the USS Cole bombing in Yemen, and the incessant bombings by Palestinian terrorists in Israel. We should have faced head-on the Islamist threat from the beginning. Then we wouldnt be talking about moving on from 9/11 every year.
The 184
September 8, 2003 The title refers to the number of people murdered at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, including the passengers on the plane used as a missile by the Islamic terrorists. We created two other cartoons for 9/11 in 2003. Confronting Terrorism III can be seen on page 188. The other cartoon, That Day, was too large to reproduce in the book but can be seen on our Web site.
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Dolled Up
September 11, 2003 The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia posted on its Web site this warning: Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools, are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful. If we ever have to invade Saudi Arabia, we may not even need bombs.
Fresh Meat
September 11, 2003
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Must the Show Go On?

September 11, 2003
Stay of Execution
September 14, 2003 An Israeli authority mentioned that in pursuing their selfdefense, killing terrorist Yasser Arafat should be an option, just as killing Osama bin Laden is an option for America. The Bush administration was quick to condemn the notion. Secretary of State Colin Powell said: The United States does not support either the elimination of him or the exile of Mr. Arafat ... the Israeli government knows that. In other words, do was we say, not as we do.
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Nuclear Ends
September 15, 2003
Back in the Day

September 16, 2003 Those were actual signs at a Democrat rally featuring former President Bill Clinton, though sightings of bin Laden and Saddam could not be confirmed.
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Blowhards
September 17, 2003 We tried product placement in this cartoon. For some reason, book sales do not surge after this cartoon appeared. Perhaps the dog in peril was a turn-off.
Bad Company
September 22, 2003 Though the U.S. may in fact have needed help in Iraq, President Bush was wrong to try to deal with the U.N., an organization whose primary goal is to prop up and legitimize dictatorships at the expense of America.
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Hard Line
September 22, 2003
Fig-Leaf Diplomacy
September 23, 2003
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Catch Vingt Deux

September 30, 2003
Lost in Sharia
September 30, 2003 Within days of each other, two news stories came out of Nigeria; one about an Islamist court sentencing a man to death by stoning for sodomy, the other about Nigerias first launching of a satellite. As the latter AP story noted: On Earth, Nigeria is struggling to provide 132 million citizens with clean water, basic health services and education. The contrast was startling.
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New Iraq
September 30, 2003
Leaky
October 2, 2003 FoxNews reported: Investigators are trying to determine who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operations officer who has served overseas. Plame is married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who has accused the Bush administration of selective use of intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq. Democrats used the opportunity to attack the Bush administration, particularly Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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Protection Racket
October 6, 2003 FoxNews reported : Israeli warplanes bombed an alleged Islamic Jihad training base in Syria, attacking deep inside the neighboring country for the first time in three decades and widening its pursuit of Palestinian militants. The airstrikea retaliation for a [suicide] bombing that killed 19 Israelisalarmed the Arab world. ... Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Saturdays bombing, in which 55 people were wounded. Syria, a member of the United Nations Security Council(!), sought a U.N. resolution condemning the airstrike but didnt bother to include a condemnation of the terrorist attack.
California Scheming
October 7, 2003
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Bound
October 13, 2003 FoxNews reported: China launched its first manned space mission, becoming the third country in history to send a person into orbitfour decades after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Smelling Blood
October 13, 2003
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Threat Matrix
October 14, 2003 CNN reported: We are gathered here at a time characterized by great challenges confronting the Muslim Ummah (community), Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. The threats of unilateralism, globalization and terrorism, the precarious situation in the Middle East and the uncertain future of Iraq ... have only served to threaten our very survival. Syed Hamid was speaking at the opening of the foreign ministers meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). ...
Breaking News
October 16, 2003 A terrorist bomb in Gaza killed three Americans. Yet the story was displaced within hours by the Defense Drops Bombshell in the Kobe Bryant hearing story (words from an actual FoxNews headline). Little Green Footballs reported that a Palestinian Authority newspaper ran a cartoon that placed blame for the bomb on Jews.
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Market Scares
October 16, 2003
Patriot Act
October 19, 2003
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Promises, Promises
October 21, 2003
Weapons Grade
October 21, 2003
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Bold Moves
October 26, 2003
Fanatics
October 26, 2003 A sports cartoon that John couldnt resist.
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Grim Tale
October 26, 2003 A memo from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was made public. He raised crucial questions about how the war was being pursued, highlighting the need to addresses all areas of concern. From the memo: My impression is that we have not yet made truly bold moves, although we have made many sensible, logical moves in the right direction, but are they enough? ... It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog.
Assads Contribution
October 28, 2003
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Firestorm
October 29, 2003
Past, Present, Future

November 2, 2003
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Their Aim
November 2, 2003
Quackmire
November 4, 2003
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Trash Politics
November 4, 2003
Veterans Day 2003

November 10, 2003 This was was the 50th anniversary of Veterans Day. The Ayn Rand Institute released an op-ed by Edwin A. Locke, Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day: Because human life is so precious, war should never be undertaken unless our rights are threatened. It is often said that our soldiers must sacrifice themselves for our country. This is precisely what we must not ask them to do. A sacrifice entails the surrender of a greater value for a lesser one. But if a man loses his life on the premise, I would rather die than live in slavery, it is a tragic lossbut it is not a sacrifice. Such a man is acting in his own interests, to protect his most precious values.
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Reaper
November 12, 2003 Saudi Arabia suffered an alQaeda terrorist attack that killed 17 people. The Arab News published an editorial stating, No one who now hears the name al-Qaeda will have any image in their mind other than one which truly reflects what the organization stands for: innocent men and women being rushed to hospital dripping blood or trying to comfort their terrified children. Apparently the name al-Qaeda didnt sound so bad when Americans were being murdered by the thousands. This demonstrates how the Saudis Islamist sympathies have blinded them to the threat of al-Qaeda.
Warm Up
November 12, 2003
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Chatter
November 13, 2003
Most Wanted
April 24, 2003 Due to a mix-up involving the CIA and national security secrets, this cartoon ended up horribly out of chronological sequence in this book. But you probably wouldnt have noticed if I hadnt pointed it out, right?
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Rendezvous
November 16, 2003 FoxNews reported: Saddams willingness to help bin Laden plot against Americans began in 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, and continued through last March, the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, says the Oct. 27 memo sent by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. The Weekly Standard reported that the memo cited reports from a variety of domestic and foreign spy agencies compiled by multiple sources.
Intolerance
November 17, 2003 FoxNews reported: Turkish authorities concluded [Nov. 18] that two deadly synagogue bombings were carried out by Turkish militants inspired by and perhaps working forthe al-Qaeda terror network. The finding fuels growing suspicions that Osama bin Ladens reach extends to NATOs sole Muslim member. As the government wrapped up DNA tests on the remains of the two [suicide] bombers, hundreds of Jewish and Muslim mourners buried the six Jews who died in [the] blasts, which also killed 17 Muslims and wounded more than 300 people.
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News Fallout
November 17, 2003
The World According to AARP

November 18, 2003 FoxNews reported on Nov. 17: Enjoying the blessing of the politically influential AARP, President Bush ... began the push for one of his top legislative prioritiesproviding a prescription drug benefit to Americas seniors. It was more preemptive socialism by Bush.
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Come Together
November 20, 2003
Bitter Pill
November 23, 2003 In an op-ed titled The Medicare Frame-Up, Robert Garmong wrote: [The new Medicare] agreement is based on the same socialist premise as the original Medicare system and it promises to be every bit as disastrous in practice. The premise is that one gains a moral claim to a good, not by earning it, but simply by needing it. On this premise, as long as any patient has an unmet need, other people must be coercedwhether through taxes or regulationsto meet it. ... Socialism with a free market veneer is still socialism. All the Republicans are doing, in their supposed attempt to expand the free market, is planting the governments smoking gun in capitalisms pocket.
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Command Performance
November 24, 2003
Blistered
November 25, 2003 CNN reported: The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter at an even faster pace than originally reported, the government said. ... Gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic activity, grew at an 8.2 percent annual rate, the fastest pace since the first quarter of 1984, the Commerce Department reported. GDP grew at a 3.3 percent pace in the second quarter.
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Hollywood Treatment
November 30, 2003
Re-victimize
December 3, 2003
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Root Causes
December 3, 2003 In an interview with Chris Matthews, Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean said, So what were going to do is focus on terrorism and not on nation states, unless the nation states merge with the terrorist organization, as they did in Afghanistan. And I supported the action we took in Afghanistan to fight terror. This was essentially a return to post-9/11 appeasement policies and treating terrorism as primarily a criminal problem, which is the opposite of the Bush Doctrine. John Kerry ended up supporting the same basic policy as Dean.
Status Quash
December 9, 2003 FoxNews reported on Dec. 8: We oppose any unilateral decision by either China or Taiwan to change the status quo, Bush told reporters, and the comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally. The referendum, scheduled for March 20, would let Taiwans electorate decide whether the islands government should demand that Beijing remove hundreds of missiles aimed at it and renounce the use of force. This was yet another foreign policy disappointment from Bush, who earlier in the year said he would do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan.
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Creepy
December 12, 2003
Like a Rat
December 14, 2003 FoxNews reported: He was just caught like a rat, said Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, which led the hunt in the area for one of the worlds most wanted men and conducted the raid that caught him. When youre in the bottom of a hole, you cant fight back.
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Spoilers
December 15, 2003 Pro-democracy/anti-terrorism demonstrations occurred in Baghdad before Saddams capture, but you might not have known about it if you only follow mainstream media. Except for the FoxNews channel, the major media did not give the demonstrations significant coverage. The blogosphere, however, did a great job of taking up the slack.
Wright Brothers 2003

December 16, 2003 If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on the fence and watch the birds. Wilbur Wright This day marked the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. An Ayn Rand Institute op-ed by Heike Berthold, America Has Grounded the Wright Brothers, noted: [T]he risks these early aviators took were calculated and deliberately accepted. They stemmed not from irrational folly, but from their willingness to accept the responsibility of independent judgment. ... Today, we seek to escape the responsibility of judgment while demanding that progress be risk-free.
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Military Injustice
December 17, 2003 In a speech, presidential candidate Howard Dean said he would not have hesitated to launch an attack on Iraq had the United Nations given us permission and asked us to be part of a multilateral force. Candidate Wesley Clark had earlier expressed a similar sentiment: I would say to the Europeans, I pledge to you as the American president that well consult with you first. You get the right of first refusal on the security concerns that we have. Well bring you in. We liked this idea so much, we re-worked it for John Kerry (see Kerrys U.N. Fetish on page 152).
A Jury of His Peers

December 18, 2003 Based on a suggestion from USS Clueless blogger Steven Den Beste (denbeste.nu).
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Lord of the Ring

December 21, 2003
Next!
December 21, 2003 FoxNews reported: Muammar al-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader who had spent years defying the international community, seemed eager to scrap his weapons programs during months of secret meetings, U.S. officials said. ... The negotiations led to Libyas decision to end work on its programs to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, including an effort to refine uranium for use in nuclear devices, the officials said.
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Tis the Season

December 23, 2003
Udder Nonsense
December 28, 2003 The Concord Monitor (New Hampshire) reported: Ive resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found, [Howard] Dean said. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. More evidence that he wanted to treat terrorism as a criminal matter, not a matter of war.
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Faces of Dean
December 29, 2003
The End is Near

December 30, 2003
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Countdown
December 31, 2003

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Earthquake Diplomacy
January 4, 2004 A 6.6-magnitude earthquake flattened the ancient Iranian city of Bam and killed more than 30,000 people. The U.S. sent several planes full of humanitarian relief, including teams of doctors and aid workers. And though at least one government official expressed gratitude, AP also reported what a hardline cleric that to say: We hate the arrogance of the Americans and we are sure that they havent come for humanitarian reasons, but for other things like spying, said Abdullah Irani, a mullah from Qum, the main center for Shiite clerics in Iran.
Mar Attacks
January 4, 2004 This Martian language was borrowed from sci-fi comics published by EC Comics in the 1950s.
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Leftist Math
January 6, 2004
Charlie Hustle
January 7, 2004 John is a big sports fan, and so occasionally he creates a sportsrelated cartoon.
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Taliban Lite
January 8, 2004 The New York Times reported: In a carefully balanced wording, the country will be renamed the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, combining democracy and religion. There is to be a system of civil law, but no law will be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of Islam. Its not difficult to guess which of the twoIslam or Westernized civil lawwill eventually be favored in legal conflicts, for Islam is given the most moral significance by its very inclusion within the Constitution. As the leaders of the occupying military force, America should have exerted greater influence on the formation of a constitution that protects individual liberty.
Minority Retort
January 11, 2003
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Motherly Hate
January 14, 2004 FoxNews reported: A Palestinian homicide bomberand mother of twoblew herself up ... at the main crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing four people and injuring seven, emergency officials said. Authorities believe this was the first mother to act as a homicide or suicide bomber. She was identified as Hamas member Reem Al-Reyashi, 22, of Gaza. Family members said she had a 3-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl. The Islamic militant group Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafats Fatah movement, issued a joint claim of responsibility, according to Lebanons Al-Manar satellite television station.
Iranian Democracy
January 15, 2004 From an op-ed by Amir Taheri titled Iran: A Sort of Democracy: The supposedly reformist bloc has controlled the presidency for the past six years and the parliament for the past four years. And yet, it has implemented absolutely no reforms of any significance. Nor has it even proposed such reform. For its part the conservative faction bases its ideology not on the need to conserve anything, but on the necessity of exporting the Khomeinist revolution first to other Muslim countries, and then to the entire world. ... What is happening in Iran today is a power struggle between two factions within the same Khomeinist establishment.
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Faith in Politics
January 18, 2004 From David Holcberg of The Ayn Rand Institute: The United States should demand that the new Afghan constitution include an explicit separation of state and religion. It makes no sense to have gone to war to overthrow one tyrannical Islamic theocracy just to replace it with another one. But to do that would require the current administration to identify Islamic fundamentalism as our ideological enemy and to recognize that the separation of state and religion is a crucial requirement of freedom not only in Afghanistan, but also here in America.
And Theyre Off ...

January 19, 2004 We were surprised when, contrary to polling before the Iowa caucus, John Kerry came out ahead of Howard Dean. We had focused a lot of attention on Dean and fully expected him to be the Democrat nominee.
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Infant Terrible
January 21, 2004
Mission Priorities
January 21, 2004 The prospect if space exploration is extraordinarily exciting. But it should be left to the private sector as a matter of principle. The war on terrorism is a big enough mission for our government without a new socialistic adventure.
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White House Alert

January 22, 2004 One of Howard Deans campaign slogans was that he would take back the White House, the implication being that it had been stolen by Bush. But it was Deans Iowa shriek that became legendary.
Oh Captain, My Captain
January 24, 2004 John wrote: Bob Captain Kangaroo Keeshan (19272004) was my first TV hero. He created a place of unlimited creativity and laughter that still inspires me. Along with Mr. Green Jeans, the Town Clown, Grandfather Clock and Tom Terrific, Ill always cherish the warmth he exuded in those precious 30-minute visits to my childhood. I dearly hope that the Captain is in a place surrounded by childrens laughter and the heart-felt love he generously bestowed on his adoring, baby-boomer audience.
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Atomic Touch II
January 25, 2004 We followed up the cartoon on page 23 after Kim Jong Il managed to blackmail more aid from the West.
Looking South
January 27, 2004 ABC News reported: Everybody always makes the mistake of looking South, Kerry said, in response to a question about winning the region. Al Gore proved he could have been president of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own. As blogger Glenn Reynolds (www.instapundit.com) commented: Um, no. Al Gore proved that he couldnt win the United States without carrying one Southern state, including his own. And Kerry proved it again.
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Campaign Trailing
January 29, 2004 It had taken us so long to perfect Deans caricature, we werent necessarily excited to see him go.
Unsettling
February 3, 2004 The San Francisco Chronicle reported reactions to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons plan to remove all Israelis from the Gaza Strip: Rachel Sapperstein, 63, a teacher and another Brooklyn native [said] the settlers earned the right to stay here because of the constant danger they face from Palestinian militants. Weve been living here under mortars and shelling for all these years and our reward for that is being thrown out of our homes, she said. Sapperstein said she believes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is laughing at what she called Israels capitulation.
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Musharrafs Khan Man

February 5, 2004 The International Herald Tribune reported: In an extraordinary announcement, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the revered founder of Pakistans nuclear weapons program, appeared on national television early this evening, admitted he had shared Pakistani nuclear technology with other countries and asked the nation for forgiveness. I take full responsibility for my actions, the scientist, once one of the most powerful men in Pakistan, said in a soft voice, and seek your pardon. ... Analysts have said that it would have been nearly impossible for Khan to have passed on such information without the tacit approval of the countrys powerful army.
Weapons of Mass Distraction

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Ante Depressant
February 8, 2004 Since no prominent politicians are arguing against the principle of medical welfare, socialism grows worse.
Extreme Prejudice
February 9, 2003 With Dean falling out of favor with Democrats in the primaries, we turned our attention to John Kerry. CNN reported a comment by Kerry regarding the Bush campaign: Theyre extreme. Were mainstream, and were going to stand up and fight back. Kerrys Vietnam-era anti-war activism was just starting to be examined.
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The Enemy of My Enemy

February 10, 2004 CNN reported: He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops, that was preordained and planned before 9/11, [former Vice President Al] Gore told Tennessee Democrats at a party event. ... The former vice president said that he, like millions of others, had put partisanship aside after the September 11 terrorist attacks and wanted Bush to lead the nation. Instead, Gore shouted to the crowd that Bush betrayed us. Though not reported in the article, Gore also claimed that Bush played on our fears, which became a John Kerry talking point later in the presidential campaign.
Iranian Terror Caucus

February 12, 2004 In a December 2003 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Kerry stated: [T]he Bush administration stubbornly refuses to conduct a realistic, non-confrontational policy with Iran even where that may be possible. As President, I will be prepared early-on to explore areas of mutual interest with Iran, just as I was prepared to normalize relations with Vietnam a decade ago. We figured that all the terrorists sponsored by Iran would appreciate Kerrys nonconfrontational approach.
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For and Against

February 16, 2004 This cartoon was inspired by a Boston Globe op-ed by Jeff Jacoby titled, John Kerrys shifting stands. On February 25, The Sacramento Bee reported that President Bush began making similar criticisms: Without naming him, Bush unleashed his first attack on the Democratic front-runner, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. Some Democrats, he said, are for tax cuts and against them; for NAFTA and against NAFTA; for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act; in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And thats just one senator from Massachusetts.
One Mans Trash

February 16, 2004
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Party Crasher
February 17, 2004
Prognosis Negative
February 18, 2004 From an Ayn Rand Institute op-ed by Alex Epstein titled, The Terror of Animal Rights: Thanks to intimidation by animal rights terrorists, Cambridge University has dropped plans to build a laboratory that would have conducted cutting-edge brain research on primates. According to The Times of London, animal rights groups had threatened to target the centre with violent protests ... and Cambridge decided that it could not afford the costs or danger to staff that this would involve. ... Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldnt make any difference to me.
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Ballot Initiative
February 19, 2004 The New York Times reported on Iranian elections: Many city walls that were plastered with election posters in previous elections are almost bare this time. Text messages circulated anonymously on mobile phones are urging people to shun the vote. The ballot boxes are coffins for freedom, said one message. Lets not participate in the funeral of freedom on Friday.
Benign Intervention
February 22, 2004
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Desperados
January 22, 2004
Hardliner Caf
February 24, 2004 From an op-ed by Iranian student Koorosh Afshar titled, Our Victory: Iranians abstained from the elections not because of the prohibition against Khatamist candidates, but because wealmost all of us this timehave finally realized that our goal can only be achieved over the Islamic republic, not through it. The vision of tomorrows secular Iran will prevail, and soon. With or without the rest of the worlds help, we are determined to paralyze and eventually oust the militants of the Islamic regime. This weekend showed that our efforts have nearly, after all this time, borne the fruit we have striven for all these years: freedom.
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Barrier for Peace

February 26, 2004
Veiled Threats
February 26, 2004
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Wrong Answer
March 9, 2004
Just Getting Started

March 16, 2004
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Watch Your Back

March 16, 2004 CNN reported: The strategy spelled out in the [al-Qaeda] document, posted last December on the Internet, calls for using terrorist attacks to drive Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznars Partido Popular from power and replace it with the Socialists. ... That prediction came to fruition in elections ... with the Socialists unseating the Popular Party three days after nearsimultaneous bombings of four trains killed 200 and shocked the nation.
Bonfire of the Mullahs

March 17, 2004 Potkin Azarmehr at Iran va Jahan reported: The Islamic regimes security forces tried to reach a compromise this year by not banning the [Iranian New Year Norooz, and the Red Wednesday Fire Festival] celebrations but declaring only certain official parks in the cities for lawful celebrations. Yet the people and the youth in particular once again turned the Red Wednesday celebrations into a combat zone for the test of forces. As the youth jumped over the bonfires, the traditional ancient rhymes were replaced with anti-government ones. toop, tank, feshfesheh Akhoond bayad koshteh sheh, [translates to] Cannons, Tanks and Firecrackers, We must kill the Mullahs.
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Saddam in Repose
March 19, 2004
Attack Politics
March 23, 2004
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Your Attention, Please II

March 25, 2004 After the Israeli military assassinated the founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, wheelchair-bound Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the group issued public threats against America as well as Israel. But the terrorist groups new leader, Abdel Aziz Rantissi, backed off the threat against America. Israel vowed to keep up the targeted assassinations. Rantissis days were numbered.
United Against
March 26, 2004
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Character Suicide
March 28, 2004
Majority Rule
March 29, 2004 Democracy does not mean freedom. It means just the opposite: mob rule over the minority, and the smallest minority is the individual.
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Steamed Rice
March 30, 2004
Up, Up
April 4, 2004
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Irans Proxy War

April 6, 2004 WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah wrote that Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr works for Iran. He is an Iranian agent. His authority comes from Iran. Last April, an Iranian cleric, Kadhem al-Husseini alHaeri, issued a religious edict and distributed to Shiite mullahs in Iraq, calling on them to seize the first possible opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the administration of Iraqi cities. ... On April 7, the day American troops effectively toppled Husseins government by seizing its main seats of power in Baghdad, alHaeri sent a handwritten letter to the city of Najaf, appointing Moktada al-Sadr as his deputy in Iraq.
Mosquerade
April 7, 2004 AFP reported: After the insurgents holed up in the mosque struck a humvee vehicle with an RPG, lightly wounding five soldiers, the marines opted for their heavy weaponry. ... The head of the Marines First Division, General James Mattis, defended the attack, warning if rebels used places of worship in their war against U.S. forces, his troops would not hesitate to strike them at sacred sites. If they barricade themselves inside a mosque, we are not going to care about the mosque anymore than they do, Mattis said. The mosque was not destroyed. And unfortunately, our battles around the Imam Ali Shrine proved that the above was not official military policy.
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Connecting Dots
April 9, 2004 In testimony before the 9/11 Commission, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice spoke of our inability to connect the dots that lead to 9/11. She blamed legal and the bureaucratic impediments that kept the FBI and the CIA from functioning really as one. But it appears a much worse inability to connect the dots is still not being addressed. With a few exceptions, our government is unwilling to openly name Islamists as the enemy and fight them as a matter of principle.
Spinning Blame
April 11, 2004
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Raising Tyranny
April 12, 2004 Solidarity with the Insurgents of Fallujah! ... Support Armed Resistance in Iraq & Everywhere! ... Avenge Yassin! These slogans and more like them appeared on protesters signs during antiwar demonstrations, one of which was proudly billed as the Insurgence Solidarity March. It was yet more evidence of the complete moral bankruptcy of the Left. This cartoon is based on the world famous Iwo Jima Flag Raising photograph by Joe Rosenthal. The February 1945 battle of Iwo Jima killed 6,821 Americans, 5,931 of them Marines. This cartoon was inspired by a suggestion from Rich Mauser Chandler.
Give War a Chance

April 13, 2004 After saying that he had cleared our military to use decisive force if necessary to maintain order and to protect our troops, Bush stated that coalition forces have suspended offensive operations in Fallujahwhere four American contractors were ambushed and mutilatedso that Iraqi leaders can communicate with the insurgents to ensure an orderly turnover of that city to Iraqi forces. This policy of appeasement failed. As Victor Davis Hanson wrote in Finish It or Forget It: [P]eace follows only from the defeat and humiliation of the culpable, not from magnanimity granted to impotent but still proud enemies.
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Diplomatic Malpractice
April 16, 2004
Your Attention, Please III

April 18, 2004
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Bowling for Fallujah

April 19, 2004 The quote in the cartoon is from a Michael Moore letter to his fans.
Food for Dictators

April 23, 2004
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Futures
April 25, 2004 The original art for this cartoon was auctioned as part of a blogosphere fund-raising challenge for Spirit of America, an organization that raises money for Marines to use for humanitarian and public relations purposes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Discarded Medals
April 27, 2004 Regarding the controversy over whether or not John Kerry threw away his medals or just the ribbons, Kerry said on Good Morning America that, back then, you know, ribbons, medals were absolutely interchangeable. Others disputed this. Apparently Kerry wanted to have his medals and throw them away, too, just has he wanted to be both a war hero and an anti-war hero.
Commission Impossible
April 29, 2004
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UNscary
April 29, 2004 From a News Day editorial: In his ABC interview, [United Nations special envoy in Iraq Lakhdar] Brahimi also predicted that the U.S. sieges of Fallujah and Najaf would end badly if military force were used. In these tense standoffs, Brahimi said, there is no military solution. Then he went on to say, There is never any military solution to any problem. This wasnt too surprising coming from the U.N. What was surprising and disappointing was that Bush has put his trust in the Algerian diplomats reputation as a fair negotiator.
Arab Street
May 3, 2004 When the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story broke, Reuters reported: The liberators are worse than the dictators ... That really, really is the worst atrocity ... Arab satellite televisions, seen by millions of Arabs and Muslims, began their news bulletins with the pictures, which they said showed the savagery of U.S. troops. ... Americans are racists and cowards, thats what I understood from these pictures. We heard none of this outrage when the Americans were ambushed in Fallujah or when Palestinian terrorists gunned down a pregnant Israeli woman and her four children as they drove home in their car.
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Kerrys U.N. Fetish

May 4, 2004 The Boston Globes Jeff Jacoby wrote an op-ed titled Kerrys U.N. fetish: No matter how the question is put, Kerrys answers on Iraq always boil down to a single recipe: Shrink the U.S. role in Iraq and defer to the United Nations instead. Thats it. That is the sum and substance of his thinking about Iraq. He doesnt relate it to the war on terrorism, to the future of liberty in the Middle East, to Americas national interests. He repeatedly declares Bush a failure for not kowtowing to the U.N. and vows that in a Kerry administration, the U.N. will be given the commanding role it deserves. This cartoon is a reworking of the cartoon on page 116.
Being Ted Rall

May 5, 2004 Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall made the news for penning a cartoon that denigrated Pat Tillmanthe football star turned soldier killed in Afghanistanas a racist, bloodthirsty idiot. Some Rall quotes: The word hero has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief. And: My theory is that, essentially, people dont like to think theyre living in a country thats led by an evil, dictatorial madman. But they are, they are living in Nazi Germany, in Stalinist Russia.
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Tortured Logic
May 7, 2004
Its Alive?
May 11, 2004
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The Good, The Bad, The Media

May 11, 2004 After days of intense media coverage of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, one could have easily gotten the impression that certain American soldiers and their commanders were the most evil people in the world. The gruesome, video-taped beheading of American Nick Berg should have changed that. But within hours of the Berg story breaking, a story about Abu Ghraib replaced it on CNNs main page.
Unfinished Business
May 13, 2004
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PC Olympics
May 17, 2004 The London Telegraph reported: The spectacle of victorious athletes grabbing a national flag and parading it around the stadium is a familiar part of international sporting competition, but U.S. Olympic officials have ordered their 550strong team to exercise restraint and avoid any jingoistic behavior. Supposedly this was so as not to incite European anti-American sentiment. Olympic officials later stated that the above would not be their policy.
Vote of Non-confidence
May 18, 2004 Regarding the prospect of free elections in Iraq producing an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: We will have to accept what the Iraqi people decide upon. If a fundamentalist Islamic country is allowed to be establish in Iraq, it will be a major defeat for us in the war on terrorism. President Bush later made a similarly horrible statement (see Democracy Is on page 204).
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Tour Deflate
May 20, 2004 The London Telegraph reported: The French government ... described the 35-hour working week as a financial disaster that was costing the state billions of pounds and promised to reform the system despite fierce union opposition.
Strange Bedfellows
May 23, 2004
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Slanted
May 24, 2004 A Pew Research Center survey found that 55% of national journalists say they think the press is not critical enough of President Bush; only 24% of the public agrees. Thirty-four percent of the public thinks the press is too critical, vs. a mere 8% of the national press. Thirty-five percent of both groups characterize coverage of the president as fair. Reporting on the survey, The Wall Street Journals James Taranto wrote: All this suggests that journalists not only are considerably more liberal than the general public but also wish their own coverage were more liberal than it is.
Moore Whine!
May 26, 2004 Our first cartoon about Michael Moores film Fahrenheit 9/11 which won Cannes Palme dOr award.
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Pray Attention
May 27, 2004 In Hamtramck, Mich., AP reported: A noiseordinance change that would allow mosques to broadcast calls to prayer on loudspeakers will be put to a citywide vote after opponents gathered hundreds of petition signatures. ... The council had voted unanimously last month to allow the Bangladeshi Al-Islah Mosque to broadcast the call to prayer five times a day. The ordinance change was approved.
Lifeblood
June 1, 2004 In Saudi Arabia, Islamic terrorists systematically hunted and executed western oil workers for being infidels and crusaders in the Holy Kingdom. Saudi Arabia responded by rushing to assure the world that oil production was okay.
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Movie Disaster
June 1, 2004
Kerrying On
June 2, 2004 Robert Tracinski commented in TIA Daily: In a new speech, Democratic candidate John Kerry sets forth his plan to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. His answer, as usual, is to fire off a barrage of paper bullets, negotiating new anti-proliferation treaties and appointing new people, as a cover for doing nothing of real substance. I offered a new strategy alternative: No terrorists. No terrorist-sponsoring states. No terrorism. This used to be known as the Bush Doctrine.
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Generation Chasm
June 6, 2004
Dutch
June 7, 2004
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G-9
June 7, 2004
Just When You Thought It Was Safe ...

June 9, 2004 The New York Times reported: There has, in fact, been a profound silence in the kingdom in the wake of the attacks in Yanbu and Khobar, in which foreigners were the main targets and Muslims were pointedly spared. Web sites popular with the more religious Saudis brimmed over with condemnation for the April bombing of the traffic police headquarters in Riyadh because all the victims were Saudis, while virtually ignoring the two subsequent attacks.
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Uphill Battle
June 13, 2004
Dog Daze
June 14, 2004
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Hedge of Allegiance
June 15, 2004 CNN reported: The Supreme Court preserved the phrase one nation, under God, in the Pledge of Allegiance, ruling ... that a California atheist could not challenge the patriotic oath but sidestepping the broader question of separation of church and state. Robert Tracinski wrote in TIA Daily: Faced with the need for a controversial decision, the Supreme Court bravely dodges the issue, deciding (somewhat dubiously) that a girls own father doesnt have standing to sue on her behalf. But when the court finally does make its decision, it is clear that there are at least four votes on the court for weakening the wall of separation between church and state.
When Worlds Collude

June 17, 2004 In an op-ed by Andrew C. McCarthy titled Iraq & alQaeda: What difference should it make that no one can find an actual bomb that was once in Saddams closet and ended up at the Coles hull? If al-Qaeda and Iraq were cooperating [as the 9/11 Commission report indicated], they had to be cooperating on terrorism, and as al-Qaeda made no secret that it existed for the narrow purpose of inflicting terrorism on the United States, exactly what should we suppose Saddam was hoping to achieve by cooperating with bin Laden?
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Open for Business

June 21, 2004 In a TIA Daily op-ed titled Starship Private Enterprise, Robert Tracinski wrote that the test of Burt Rutans SpaceShipOne [was] an event that recalls the inspiring days of the 1960s space program. But this space race is proof, not just of the power of the mind, but also of the power of private enterprisewhich just sent a man to space on the same budget and schedule NASA would require for a paper study.
Prose and Cons

June 22, 2004
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Redeemable
May 23, 2004 CNN reported: We are announcing for the last time that we are opening the door to repentance and for those to return to righteousness, said Crown Prince Abdullah in a televised address. ... To everyone who has gone out of the righteous way and has committed a crime in the name of religion, and to everyone who belongs to that group that has done itself a disservice, everyone who has been captured in terror acts is given the chance to come back to God if they want to save their lives, their souls. If they give themselves up ... we can promise them that they are going to be safe. Few terrorists took them up on the offer. It was just PR.
Aid and Comfort

June 27, 2004
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Early Delivery
June 28, 2004 The handover of sovereignty to Iraq seemed to take the wind out of the sails of some critics. Unfortunately, it also gave Iraqi government officials more control over our troops, as was later seen in Najaf. And it left us without a means of ensuring that Iraq does not become an Iranian-style theocracy.
Unreserved
June 29, 2004
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Let Freedom Reign

July 1, 2004
Unmasked
July 5, 2004 AP reported: Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton said. Were saying that for America to get back on track, were probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. Were going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. At least she was up-front about it. Remember the communist motto: From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.
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18 Tir
July 7, 2004 On July 9 (18 Tir), 1999, prodemocracy students clashed with police in Tehran and other cities in unrest sparked by a heavy-handed police and vigilante raid on a smaller dormitory protest over newspaper closures. One student was killed and many were imprisoned. AFP reported regarding the possibly of commemoration protests in 2004: [T]he Tehran University campus will also be shut down for the anniversary. A pro-reform group, the Association of Islamic Students, told the news agency ISNA that it had been informed the measure was taken to disinfect the campus because of cockroach infestation.
Genesis
July 7, 2004
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The O.J. Effect

July 19, 2004 Saddam Hussein has an American lawyer on his legal team named Curtis F.J. Doebbler. From Doebblers Web site: I ardently oppose American and more broadly Western neo-imperialism which is being imposed through the exploitation of the majority of the people of the world and the economic and military dominance of the United States. I believe that all people have a right and a duty to take all necessary measures to end the United States inhumane dominance of the lives of billions of people. Sounds like hell get along with Saddam just fine.
Blowing Smoke
July 13, 2004 I watched Fahrenheit 9/11. Some parts were downright offensive, such as Michael Moores depiction of the Iraqi dictatorship as a sovereign nation with kite-flying kids frolicking around Baghdad like it was a socialist utopia, and Moores refusal to show images of the 9/11 attacks or Saddams atrocities in the same manner he shows the casualties of the Iraq war. But because of such blatant editorializing and a general lack of objectivity, Moores documentary is intellectually impotent, even as propaganda. Sure, some people will buy and eagerly swallow Moores snake oil, but such people were probably lost causes anyway.
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Security Breach
July 13, 2004 CNN reported: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ... ordered construction continued on a barrier between Israel and the West Bank despite a nonbinding world court ruling that it was contrary to international law.
Swing Vote
July 13, 2004
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For and Against, Too

July 15, 2004 This was our first cartoon to appear in The Detroit News, thanks to the efforts of Felix Grabowski and George Bullard.
Iranian Export
July 19, 2004 Reuters reported: The New York Times reported ... that the Iranian government had ordered its border guards not to stamp the passports of Saudi al-Qaeda members moving through Iran after training in Afghanistan. An Iranian stamp could have made the al-Qaeda members subject to additional scrutiny upon entering the United States.
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Vicious Circle
July 19, 2004 CNN reported: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei said ... that Gaza was in chaos, as two officials claimed to be chief of general security in Gaza and the West Bank. Meanwhile, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, facing an unprecedented challenge to his power, said nothing. ... [V]iolence in Gaza included the burning of Palestinian intelligence offices in Khan Yunis by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigadesa military offshoot of Fatah that Israel and the U.S. State Department consider to be a terrorist organization. The group also released people that the security services had been holding and stole weapons stored at the intelligence offices. Cars around the building were set afire.
Tall Poppies
July 20, 2004 Inspired by a Robert Tracinski op-ed titled Martha and the Tall Poppies: There is a notorious saying in Australia: You have to cut down the tall poppies. In other words, anyone who dares to poke his head above the crowd must be attacked, denigrated, and brought down to the common level. I dont know whether this Tall Poppy Syndrome, as it is called, is really typical of Australian culture, but it is a widespread trend in American cultureand Martha Stewart has long been one of its favorite targets. This was our first cartoon to appear in Investors Business Daily, thanks to the efforts of Wes Mann and Glenn Larkin.
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Clinton Legacy
July 22, 2004 FoxNews reported: [Sandy] Berger and his lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said the former Clinton adviser knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket and pants and inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio. He returned most of the documents, but some still are missing.
Clinton Legacy II
July 26, 2004
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Death Dealers
July 27, 2004 AP reported under the headline Attacks in Sudans Darfur region are genocide: U.S. Congress: By a vote of 422 to zero, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring passed the resolution introduced a month ago by New Jersey Democrat Donald Payne stressing that in Darfur 30,000 people have been brutally murdered, 130,000 have fled to neighboring Chad, and more than one million have been internally displaced by the violence. This image was inspired by a photograph of the militia that resembled Frank Frazettas Death Dealer.
The Democratic Duo

July 28, 2004 Stronger at Home, Respected in the World was not only the theme of the Democratic National Convention, but also the oft-repeated theme of the Kerry-Edwards campaign.
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Detour of Duty
July 30, 2004 During his nomination acceptance speech, John Kerry declared that he would not send troops to war unless the threat was real and imminent. Instead of striking an enemy to prevent the growth of an imminent threat (one of Bushs justifications for the Iraq war), Kerry was apparently willing to wait for an enemy to mount an attack. The topic of preemptive force would later come up during the presidential debates.
From Home to Grave

August 1, 2004
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Bounce
August 2, 2004 FoxNews reported: John Kerry either gained a slight bump in his standing with voters or didnt move at all following the Democratic National Convention, according to polls taken after he accepted the partys nomination for president.
Guarded
August 3, 2004 CNN reported: Tightened security measures at the 118year-old national monument include a new anti-bomb detection device that blows a blast of air into clothing and then checks for particles of explosive residue. Bombsniffing dogs also were present during the preview. Liberty Island, the statues 12-acre home, was closed for 100 days after September 11, 2001. The second of two terrorist-hijacked jetliners had skimmed low over the statue just seconds before it crashed into the World Trade Centers south tower 1.5 miles away.
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Believe It or Not
August 5, 2004 In a review for a book about Islam in The Wall Street Journal, Eric Ormsby wrote: [I]t isnt enough to defend Islam or attempt to explain aberrations away. He [the author of the book] and other Muslim leaders have an obligation to speak out forcefully against betrayals of their own traditions. Its long over due for moderate Muslims to start loudly separating themselves as a matter of principle from terror-sponsoring and theocratic Islamists. Otherwise its going to be hard to believe that moderate Muslims exist at all, much less in significant numbers.
Tracked and Felled

August 9, 2004 BBC reported: Taiwans government says it has been told to remove adverts for the island from hundreds of airport baggage carts and buses in Athens. A spokesman said he suspected the order was a result of China lobbying the Athens organizing committee. ... Under pressure from China, Taiwan participates in the Olympics under the name of Chinese Taipei, and its national flag and anthem cannot be used when its athletes win medals. This was a gross injustice, all sanctioned by the Olympic authorities.
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Exhumation
August 10, 2004 CNN reported on the desecration of Jewish graves in France: Despite a series of government measures, anti-Semitic violence has increased in recent years in France, coinciding with rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Authorities have blamed young French Muslims for some of the violence.
The Beauty and the Beast

August 12, 2004 Barry Myer wrote at ElitesTV Web site: Miss [Fay] Wray spent her final years in the shadows of the landmark which brought her famethe Empire State Building. Each time I arrive in New York, she wrote in her biography and [I] see the skyline and the exquisite beauty of the Empire State Building, my heart beats a little faster. I like that feeling. I really like it! Ive loved the movie King Kong since I was a kid. This is our small tribute to Ms. Wray, who starred in the 1933 film.
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Sensitive War
July 12, 2004 President Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi allowed the cultural and religious aspects of the Imam Ali shrine to protect murderous cleric al-Sadr from our full military powers. Robert Tracinski wrote in TIA Daily: It has been said that a coward dies a thousand deaths, while the brave man dies but once. The same goes for a pragmatist, who suffers through a thousand political upheavals because he is afraid to take just one controversial action. We could have stormed the Imam Ali shrine in April, taken the political heat for it, and then moved on. Instead, were enduring yet another cycle of attack, retreat, and bogus truce.
House of Saud
August 15, 2004 FoxNews reported: Behind a faade of control, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia is in tough shape and teetering on the brink of collapse, a victim of its own corruption and a violent Islamic insurgency at its door, some U.S. experts warn. It is a pretty fragile royal family, its pretty corrupt, and its sitting on some pretty weak legs, S. Enders Winbush, director of the Center for Future Security Strategies with the Hudson Institute, told FoxNews.com.
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For al-Sadr?
August 17, 2004 At the time, there was talk of allowing al-Sadr to enter the political arena in Iraq instead forcing him to face justice, even though American soldiers had been killed during the battles with al-Sadr and his militia. The quick handover of sovereignty to Iraq had placed us in this position because the interim government gained authority in the use of our troops. On October 4, The New York Times reported: The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr has begun laying the groundwork to enter Iraqs nascent democratic process, telling Iraqi leaders that he is planning to disband his militia and possibly field candidates for office.
Unearned
August 17, 2004 Fortunately, illegal drug use was the biggest negative story to come out of the Olympics in Athens, and not terrorism.
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Old War, New War

August 18, 2004 CNN reported: Though the [U.S. troop] withdrawal will be spread over years, areas of southern and western Germany with U.S. bases will feel a sharp economic impact, including the likely loss of tens of thousands of local jobs. Germany is home to some 70,000 U.S. soldiers, the bulk of the American military presence in Europe. AFP reported: Although U.S. officials have assured Germany that the move is not intended as punishment for Berlins outspoken opposition to the Iraq war, the plans have left a bitter aftertaste in towns that have come to rely on Uncle Sam.
Christmas in Cambodia
August 22, 2004 U.S. News & World Reports Michael Barone wrote in an op-ed titled Winter in Cambodia?: This month the Kerry campaign abandoned one claim that John Kerry had made for years about his Vietnam War service and put another into question. The claim that has been dropped: that Kerry was in Cambodia at Christmastime in 1968. Kerry said 1992: I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. ... I have that memory which is searedsearedin me. Turns out that Kerrys own biography places him on Christmas 1968 in Sa Dec, 50 miles from Cambodia.
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Mullah Justice
August 23, 2004 IranFocus reported: On Sunday, August 15, a 16-yearold girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Ateqeh Sahaleh was hanged in public on Simetry Street off Rah Ahan Street at the city center. ... In her summary trial ... Ateqeh personally defended herself. She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption, not the victims. The judge personally pursued Ateqehs death sentence, beyond all normal procedures, and finally gained the approval of the Supreme Court. ... Rezai said ... he had her executed for her sharp tongue. This cartoon appeared in The Washington Times.
S.O.S.?
August 24, 2004 CNN reported on Sept. 1: Democratic leaders, increasingly concerned that John Kerrys presidential campaign is adrift, are urging the presidential nominee to make changes in his staff before Labor Day, according to some party sources. If not, said one party strategist, it could be too late. Sources say major changes could come at the campaigns highest level. The concern, according to these sources, is that Kerry has failed to effectively respond to attacks from Republicans and criticism of his military service in Vietnam, particular ads from a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
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Fellow Travelers
August 25, 2004 Reuters reported: North Korea hurled invective at President Bush for a second day ... calling him a political idiot and human trash, and said six-party talks on Pyongyangs nuclear ambitions appeared doomed. A day earlier, a Foreign Ministry spokesman for the isolated communist state described Bush as a tyrannical imbecile who put Adolf Hitler in the shade and said Pyongyang could see no justification to negotiate with his administration.
HaTikvah
August 27, 2004 The Miami Herald reported: Windsurfer Gal Fridman swears he felt all of Israeland the 11 slain Israelis from the 1972 Munich Olympics pumping his board for him on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. ... When he crossed the finish line and realized he had just won Israels first gold medal, he wrapped himself in the Israeli flag and plunged into the water, his tears mixing with the salt water of the Saronic Gulf. He cried again at the waterfront medal ceremony, when several hundred Israelis belted out HaTikvah (The Hope) as the Israeli flag was raised. Fridman[s] first name means wave in Hebrew.
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Urban Blights
August 29, 2004 Novelist and blogger Roger L. Simon (rogerlsimon.com) reported hearing a New York City police officer comment about the demonstrators at the Republican National Convention: Its like fuggin 9/11 never happened.
Cest lappeasement
August 30, 2004 Islamic terrorists in Iraq kidnapped two French journalists and demanded that France lift a ban against Islamic headscarfs in public schools. Robert Tracinski wrote in TIA Daily: The Europeans have long clung to the fantasy that certain specific grievances treatment of Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. Imperialism, and so onare the cause of terrorism. In reality, as French President Jacques Chirac is discovering, Islamic terrorists hate the West because of what we areand because we stand in the way of the global Islamic theocracy they long to impose.
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Party Disfavors
August 31, 2004 I sympathize with the elephant on the left.
Terrorist Math
September 2, 2004 This cartoon was published in Investors Business Daily, but unfortunately it appeared just as the massacre was unfolding at the Beslan school. As a result, some IBD readers thought we were making light of the atrocity. Of course we were not. We were highlighting earlier threats from the terrorists. FoxNews reported on Sept 2: From inside the school, the militants sent out a list of demands and threatened that if police intervened, they would kill 50 children for every hostage-taker killed and 20 children for every hostagetaker injured. ...
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Political Stance
September 4, 2004 From a Newsweek article by Karen Fragala: Three of the [Republican] partys rising starsCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani are all outspoken advocates of a womans right to choose. And the introduction to the partys new platform ... includes a note of tolerance: It calls on Republicans to accept and respect each others divergent views on social issues. But opposition to abortion remains a firm tenet of the Republican ideology and the platform itself, and throughout his administration, President Bush has crusaded to limit abortion rights and extend legal protection for the unborn.
Catch Me If You Can

September 6, 2004
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Noms de Guerre
September 7, 2004 Daniel Pipes wrote in Theyre TerroristsNot Activists: Politically-correct news organizations undermine their credibility with such subterfuges [as using euphemisms for terrorist]. How can one trust what one reads, hears, or sees when the self-evident fact of terrorism is being semidenied? Worse, the multiple euphemisms for terrorist obstruct a clear understanding of the violent threats confronting the civilized world. It is bad enough that only one of five articles discussing the Beslan atrocity mentions its Islamist origins; worse is the miasma of words that insulates the public from the evil of terrorism.
Fahrenhype 9/11
September 8, 2004 This cartoon appears in the film FahrenHYPE 9/11 and in its companion book.
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Confronting Terrorism III

September 8, 2004 This cartoon began as only two panels; weve added a panel every year since. 188 / Black & White World II
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Childs Play
September 9, 2004 This cartoon appears in the companion book to the film FahrenHYPE 9/11.
Edited for Content

September 9, 2004 This cartoon appears in the film FahrenHYPE 9/11 and in its companion book.
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Heart Attack
September 9, 2004
Down from the Mountain

September 12, 2004 Charles Johnson and other bloggers helped bust CBS on its use of fake memos to attack Bushs military record. From an account in The Los Angeles Times: Soon Charles Johnson, a Los Angeles musician-turned-conservative-blogger who hosts the site LittleGreenFootballs.com, posted the results of his own investigation [of the CBS Bush memos]. He wrote that he had opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Times New Roman and used the programs default settings to retype a purported Killian memo from August 1973.
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Up in Smoke
September 19, 2004 South Koreans spotted a suspicious mushroom cloud and alerted the world that it looked like a bomb detonation. North Korea responded that it was merely a demolition explosion for a hydroelectric project. Later, in a bizarre twist, South Korea recanted. FoxNews reported: The mushroomshaped cloudinitially detected by South Korean intelligence authorities and widely reported from an explosion is believed to have been a natural cloud, said Deputy Unification Minister Lee Bong-jo during a weekly news briefing. We still think it was Dan Rathers credibility.
Law & Terror

September 14, 2004 AP reported under the headline Insurgents Target Iraqi Police; 59 Dead: The Tawhid and Jihad group, headed by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, posted a Web statement claiming responsibility for [the] car bombing. The al-Qaeda-linked group launched a surprise assault in Baghdad ... killing dozens, and boasted it had the upper hand in the fight against the Americans.
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Fake but Accurate

September 16, 2004
UNthreatening
September 19, 2004
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Kerry vs. Kerry

September 20, 2004 FoxNews reported: Incredibly, [Kerry] now believes our national security would be stronger with Saddam Hussein in power and not in prison, Bush said. Hes saying he prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy. I couldnt disagree more, and not so long ago, so did my opponent, Bush added, quoting Kerry as saying recently, Those who believe we are not safer with his capture dont have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president.
Sword of Injustice
September 21, 2004 FoxNews reported: An al-Qaeda-linked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed ... to have killed the second of two American hostagesback-to-back slayings that have notched up the Jordanian militants ruthless campaign of terror. Al-Zarqawis group, Tawhid and Jihad, kidnapped and beheaded two Americans, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong. Briton Kenneth Bigley was kidnapped at the same time and also later murdered.
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High Stakes
September 23, 2004 From MSNBC: The United States will sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years, Israeli military officials said. ... Disclosure of the deal comes amid escalating Israeli worries over Irans nuclear development program. Israel and a number of Western countries fear that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for generating electricity. Yeah, right. Iran responded days later by test firing a strategic missile.
Goodnight Dan
September 24, 2004
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Preemptive Diplomacy
September 26, 2004 The Weekly Standards William Kristol wrote: Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi spoke to a joint meeting of Congress. Sen. Kerry could not be troubled to attend, as a gesture of solidarity and respect. Instead, Kerry said in Ohio that Allawi was here simply to put the best face on the policy. So much for an impressive speech by perhaps Americas single most important ally in the war on terror. ... But Kerrys rudeness paled beside the comment of his senior adviser, Joe Lockhart, to the Los Angeles Times: The last thing you want to be seen as is a puppet of the United States, and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips.
Scare Tactics
September 28, 2004 The Michigan Daily reported: Some of Kerrys surrogates have been more explicit [than Kerry] in using the [draft] issue against Bush. Earlier this month, according to The Associated Press, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean told students at Brown University in Providence, R.I., that they would be in danger of being drafted in the event of Bushs re-election. However, Bush unequivocally rejected the military draft as an option, and the only draft bill before Congress was sponsored by a Democrat, and it was overwhelmingly defeated. That didnt stop Kerry and some of his supporters from pushing the draft scare in the final weeks of the election.
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Round One
September 28, 2004
Spoilers
September 30, 2004
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Global Test
October 1, 2004 In the first presidential debate, Kerry said regarding Americas right to use preemptive force against other nations: But if and when you do it ... you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test, where your countrymen, your people, understand fully why youre doing what youre doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons. Bush responded appropriately: Im not exactly sure what you mean, passes the global test, ... My attitude is, you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.
Armed and Disingenuous

October 2, 2004 Kerry acknowledged Americas right to use preemptive force, and thats consistent with his previously stated imminentthreat threshold. But unlike Bush, Kerry didnt make it clear that he would ever choose to use preemptive force to prevent a growing threat, as Bush did in Iraq. An imminent attack obviously demands an immediate response by its very nature. Only a pacifist would advocate sitting still in the face of an impending attack. But the question of using preemptive force is one of preventing attacks before they are imminent. Kerry implicitly rejected that as an option.
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Campaign Fodder
October 6, 2004 In the vice presidential debate, John Edwards used casualty figures from Iraq that did not include Iraqs newly allied soldiers. Dick Cheney took Edwards to task, saying: He wont count the sacrifice and the contribution of Iraqi allies. Its their country. Theyre in the fight. Theyre increasingly the ones out there putting their necks on the line to take back their country from the terrorists and the old regime elements that are still left. Edwards denied that he was demeaning Iraqi sacrifices, but Cheney accused Edwards of biased counting in order to exaggerate American casualties in relation to the coalition.
Black Wash
October 6, 2004
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Strange Bird
October 7, 2004 The mixed, pro-war/anti-war message coming from the Kerry-Edwards campaign didnt seem like it would fly to us.
Coalition of the Bribed

October 8, 2004 The Duelfer report put the final nail in the coffin of the idea that Saddam had stockpiles of WMDs. But, as The Wall Street Journal reported, it also revealed that [Saddam] instituted an epic bribery scheme aimed primarily at three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, with the intent of having them help lift those sanctions. Saddam personally approved and removed all names of voucher recipients, under the Oil for Food program, Mr. Duelfer writes. Alleged beneficiaries of such bribes include individuals in China, as well as some with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Jacques Chirac.
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Disarming
October 10, 2004 More alarming than Kerrys global test comment was this one: The United States is pursuing a new set of nuclear weapons. It doesnt make sense. You talk about mixed messages. Were telling other people, You cant have nuclear weapons, but were pursuing a new nuclear weapon that we might even contemplate using. Not this president. Im going to shut that program down Morally equating Americas possession of nuclear weapons with that of dictatorships was disgusting enough. But Kerrys announcement to the world including our enemiesthat he would act on that belief by disarming America was beyond the pale.
Casting
October 11, 2004 The Boston Globe reported: Srek, the Afghan journalist who acted as a poll observer in Kabul, said she was most excited when she saw an old woman arrive enthusiastically at the polls despite a pronounced limp. It made me happy, she said. Meanwhile, FoxNews reported that in Saudi Arabia, Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabias first nationwide elections, the government announced ... dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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Dose of Reality
October 12, 2004
Fiscal Restraint
October 14, 2004
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Hot Water
October 17, 2004
Hail Mary
October 18, 2004 AFP reported: John Kerry has come under renewed criticism for raising the case of Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, during a presidential debate. Political talk shows, newspaper commentators and an opinion poll have all kept the gay comment in the public. Democrats have bravely called it a storm in a political teacup and Kerrys campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill has said Cheneys daughter is fair game.
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Preempt the Vote

October 19, 2004
The Kerry Draft

October 20, 2004 Kerrys plan for a national community service requirement for high school students was touted during the Democrat primaries. But it later disappeared from his speeches and his Web site, perhaps because such a plan would have blunted his military draft scare tactics.
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Democracy Is
October 21, 2004 It was a great disappointment from Bush, but not really surprising. FoxNews reported: If free and open Iraqi elections lead to the seating of a fundamentalist Islamic government, I will be disappointed. But democracy is democracy, Bush said. If thats what the people choose, thats what the people choose. It would be far more than merely disappointing if Iraq becomes a fundamentalist Islamic state. It would be a defeat for us in the war on terror. Yes, theres a chance that Iraqis will vote for a free country. But if were in a war against dictatorships, why leave the creation of one to chance?
Tora Bore
October 24, 2004
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Spoiler
October 25, 2004
KaDud
October 26, 2004
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Curious Specimen
October 27, 2004
Condolences?
October 28, 2004
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Translation
October 29, 2004
Decision 2004
October 31, 2004
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Pins and Needles

November 1, 2004
A Fresh Start
November 2, 2004
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First Presidents
November 4, 2004 This cartoon was inspired by Rembrandts Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer. The bust of George Washington was inspired by Houdons.
The Uncredibles
November 8, 2004
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Evasive Maneuvers
November 8, 2004 Paul Freedman at Slate.com wrote in The Gay Marriage Myth: Did moral values in particular, the anti-gay marriage measures on ballots in 11 states this weekdrive President Bushs re-election? Thats the early conventional wisdom as Democrats begin soul-searching and fingerpointing. These measures are alleged to have drawn Christian conservatives to the polls, many of whom failed to vote last time. The theory is intriguing, but the data dont support it. Gay marriage and values didnt decide this election. Terrorism did.
Peace Initiative
November 10, 2004 After many days of delay, Yasser Arafat was officially pronounced dead on November 11, which happened to be just hours after we posted this cartoon. Since Arafat was the first cartoon in this section, it seems appropriate that he should be the last. Though he frequently appeared in our cartoons, he will not be missed.
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Other Art
TIA, LGF, ETC.
TIA
The Intellectual Activist covers
By Robert W. Tracinski www.IntellectualActivist.com For the first 22 years of its existence (starting as a fortnightly political newsletter in 1979) The Intellectual Activist did not use any images on its coveror any images at all, aside from the occasional graph to illustrate economic statistics. When I became the magazines publisher in 2002by which point TIA had become a monthly magazine covering a wide range of political and intellectual issuesI wanted to introduce a more visually interesting style which included a larger format, a new layout, editorial cartoons, and images on our front and back covers. But this raised a question: How could we find engaging cover images to represent what were often very abstract, even philosophical themes? We tinkered for a while with using news photographs, such as an Israeli tank rolling through the streets of a Palestinian city to illustrate A Day in the Life of the Peace Process. But these images did not offer the same selectivity, the same sharp focus, the same power to grab the readers attention that we have found in the cover images created by Cox & Forkum. I began publishing Cox & Forkums editorial cartoons in November 2001. I was so impressed by the quality and originality of these cartoons that a few months later, I asked John and Allen to create a cover image. By the middle of 2003, we made the decision to have Cox & Forkum produce all of our covers, and some of the best examples are reproduced here. How do you create intriguing cover images for articles on abstract, intellectual topics? The answer: very creatively. A particularly striking example is their image for Fighting the Hydra (facing page). How do you dramatize a battle of ideas against an intellectual hydra, composed of a proliferation of arbitrary assertions, baseless claims, and misleading statistics? Cox &
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Forkum produced their striking vision of a formless hydra of pointing fingers and menacing fists. Most other ideas, of course, are less abstract. My personal favorite is The Dead Enders (page 214). Produced to accompany an article on the aftermath of the Iraq War among Saddam Husseins Arab, European, and Western allies, this image originated with my own idea. Why not represent these political leaders as faces on the same kind of playing cards distributed to coalition troops to help them capture the top officials from Saddams regime? Cox & Forkums execution of this idea was far more interesting and elaborate than what I had imagined, and it highlighted Johns remarkable skill at producing caricatures. Notice particularly the portrait of Michael Moore aswhat else?the Joker. Some of these covers originated with ideas I pitched to Cox & Forkum, but those ideas would usually evolve and frequently became something quite different than what I originally envisioned. I originally suggested, for The Soul of the Left about the supposedly intellectual Lefts embrace of Michael Moores propaganda filmsthe idea of an unkempt Moore leering out at us from behind the faade of a cardboard cut-out of a respectable mainstream Democratic politician. Instead, Allen and John proposed the image of nested Russian dolls, which also allowed them to pick up another theme from my article and carry the metaphor one step further: beneath John Kerry is Michael Moore, but beneath him there is the totalitarian contempt for truth, represented by Lenin (page 216). Since then, I have taken to pouting that John and Allen never listen to me and arbitrarily throw out all of my ideas. But I have enormous respect for the fact that they are not just putting my ideas into inkthat I can count on them to come up with something better and more creative than I can suggest.
The greatest pleasure I have gotten from these covers comes from the unique division of labor between author and illustrator. As a writer, one of my goals is to come up with memorable phrases and unusual verbal imagery that, I hope, will crystallize in my readers minds the central idea of an article. It is doubly rewarding to see these images transformed from words into pictures, and to see them come to life on the cover of TIA. A good example of this is The Capitalism Cargo Cult, a phrase I have been saving for the better part of a decade, waiting for the right opportunity to use it to describe an alleged free-market reform that, like the South Pacific cargo cults, goes through the outward motions of capitalist wealth-creation while betraying its essence. (The opportunity finally came, alas, with President Bushs expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs.) It was an analogy that cried out for an image, which Cox & Forkum provided with their usual flair (page 214). One of these covers, in fact, was for an article that began with an image. In conversation with a friend, I remarked that the perpetually dour John Kerry and his perpetually smiling running mate, John Edwards, made an oddly contrasting pair, like the ancient Greek masks representing tragedy and comedy. The article then coalesced around the idea of tragicomedy: the comedy of the Kerry-Edwards campaigns missteps, and the tragedy of the fact that this unserious duo was the only political opposition available on the crucial issues of the day (page 217). But what really inspired me to write the article was the confidence that I knew the only team of illustrators who could really make that image work. I hope you enjoy the results, and I hope these cover images achieve their intended effect: to make you interested in picking up a copy of The Intellectual Activist and reading the articles they illustrate.
The Anti-Jeffersonian Revolution

July 2002
Fighting the Hydra

December 2002
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The Dead-Enders
May 2003
The Capitalism Cargo Cult

September 2003
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The Enemies of Columbus

October 2003
The Oligarchs
January 2004
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The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam

May 2004
The Soul of the Left

July 2004
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Cold War II
August 2004
The Kerry Campaign Tragicomedy

September 2004
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LGF
Little Green Footballs weblog
By Charles Johnson Charles Johnson hosts Little Green Footballs (www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog) for which Cox & Forkum has created a few custom cartoons. Here Charles discusses his weblog and some of the inside jokes associated with the cartoons. 2002 Fiskie Award John and Allens first custom cartoon for Little Green Footballs depicted Jimmy Carters acceptance speech (facing page) as our first Idiotarian of the Year winner. Idiotarian is a term generally used to describe Leftists, particularly those who openly sympathize with Americas and Israels enemies. The award is nicknamed the Fiskie after British journalist Robert Fisk, who wrote after being attacked by a mob in Afghanistan, If I were them, I would have attacked me too. Or something equally inane. It would take too long to list all the reasons why Jimmy was our first Fiskie winner, but in a grim harbinger of what was to come, the runner-up in 2002 was Michael Moorewho sat in the presidential box next to Carter at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. 2003 Fiskie Award The Fiskie Award winner for 2003 was Rachel Corrie (facing page), the proPalestinian, International Solidarity Movement member who was photographed burning an American flag in the Palestinian town of Rafah shortly before she was accidentally killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer as she attempted to prevent the clearing of brush in an area riddled with smuggling tunnels. Perhaps nave, perhaps objectively pro-terror, Corrie became a symbol to the American far Leftand LGF made it a crusade to deconstruct their propaganda. This cartoon provoked a furious discussion at Little Green Footballs, with over
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900 comments, and also got me some hilarious hate mail. Trolls vs. Facts On weblogs, a troll is a commenter who posts inflammatory remarks purely for the sake of controversy and usually without basis in fact. LGFs motto is the site that fact checks your ass, as many a troll has discoveredalthough usually not with such catastrophic consequences as in the cartoon (facing page). Since a trolls goal is to get a rise out of regular readers, LGF has a prayer for readers tempted to take the bait: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls, the courage to debate with honest opponents, and the wisdom to know the difference. LFG Lizardoids Ah, Indymedia! It is the locus of farLeft/anarchist/slacker insanity on the Internet, whose creepy denizens we dubbed Morlocks after the flesh-eating, subterranean, subhuman species in the classic H. G. Wells novel The Time Machine. Indymedia became aware of Little Green Footballs soon after we started covering some of the nutball content at their sites. It wasnt long before the Morlocks began accusing LGF of being secretly run by the Zionist World Conspiracy, and in response to one of the loonier screeds (in which they kept spelling LGF as LFG), I wrote: Little do they realize the terrible truth about LFG. You see, Charles is really a cigar-smoking reptilian android from the planetoid Aidemydni, who lives in a top secret nitrogen-filled bomb shelter (why doesnt the nitrogen explode when I smoke? Ah-ah! That would be telling!) concealed beneath Denver International Airport. Bwahahaha! Soon the Earth will be mine, and my lizardoid armies will herd the peace activists into brutal repression camps, the better to slaughter them and feast on their gamy buttocks! Bwahahaha!
LGF readers readily embraced the lizardoid moniker, and John and Allen captured it in a cartoon (page 220). Lizardoids in London Some LGF readers in London made plans to meet and discussed the plans openly on LGF. This caught the attention of the Indymedia loons, who promptly suggested infiltrating the meeting to see what they could discover of our nefarious plans for world domination. But everyone knows that peace activists are no match for reptilian androids (see page 220). JihadTV One of the more dismaying developments after September 11 was the general acceptance by mainstream media of Arab news channels such as al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, which have all the glitz and technology of Western news channelsbut regularly air shockingly anti-Semitic and antiAmerican programming, with a very noticeable sympathy for radical Islam and the global jihad. In frustration at the unwarranted respect given to these enemy propaganda outlets, I dubbed al-Jazeera JihadTV, and the name stuck. C&F caught the essence of JihadTV perfectly (page 221). Baby Got Burqa This one was inspired by LGFs coverage of the release in Iran of an Islamic hip-hop album, officially approved by the theocratic states Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture, with catchy lyrics chastising women for immodesty, such as, More important than bread at night is your lipstick and lip liner, and Theres a lot of religious people here, cover your legs with that skirt. I titled the original post HipHop, Islamofascist Style, and John and Allen took it from there (see page 221).
2003 Fiskie Award

Winner: Rachel Corrie
2002 Fiskie Award

Winner: Jimmy Carter
Trolls vs. Facts

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LFG Lizardoids
May 16, 2003
LFG Lizardoids in London

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JihadTV
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Baby Got Burqa

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ETC.
Bloggers Cycle
July 6, 2003 To understand this one, it helps to be a blogger.

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T-Shirt Designs
The top two designs were based on ideas by Doug Weinberg at ThoseShirts.com. The bottom two are our own. Dean failed to catch on (in more ways than one), so we canceled it. All of the designs are color. Black & White World II / 223
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Creative License
August 3, 2003 And you think renewing your drivers license can be a pain ... John makes a cameo in this cartoon.
Opposites Detract
April 1, 2003 This cartoon was used as part of an April Fools Day gag. Id relate the story here, but its better just to read the whole yarn on our Web site: www.coxandforkum.com.
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Castle Coalition
May 26, 2004 We created this art for the Castle Coalition (www.castlecoalition.org). From their Web site: Despite the requirement of the United States Constitution and the constitutions of all fifty states, governments across the country routinely condemn property for the use of other private parties. Courts often decide to stand passively by and allow these travesties to occur. The Castle Coalition is an effort by activists to take matters into their own hands. Charles Gargano, head of the Empire State Development Corporation, is considered by CC to symbolize eminent domain in New York State.
Revoke the Oscar

April 10, 2003 This art was created for the guys at MooreWatch.com, who launched an unsuccessful effort to have Michael Moores Oscar for Bowling for Columbine revoked.
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Santa Endorsement
December 2003 This illustration was featured in an advertisement in The Intellectual Activist.
Beam
July 21, 2004 This spot illustration was created for our announcement that we were being published in The Detroit News and Investors Business Daily.
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Buy Our Book

May 9, 2003 This cartoon was created for use on our Web site, but we ultimately didnt use it. Thats me in the background and John in the foreground. I have been known to threaten computers.
Bloggers Dilemma
November 6, 2004 When bloggers exposed as forgeries certain memos used in a 60 Minutes report criticizing President Bush, CBS executive Johnathan Klein responded by dismissing bloggers as a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing. The comment didnt make the bloggers any less wrong about the memos. Whether or not Shakespeare wrote in his pajamas is another matter entirely.
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Gas Pains
March 20, 2003 The following four pages feature gag cartoons from our Buster McNutt series (for more on this series, see the Interviews section).
Culture Clash
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Motivated
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CarTel
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Missed Exit
December 15, 2003
Batch Mode
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It Came From!
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Future Car Salesman

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Interviews
Interviews
The Deans World Interview
Deans World (www.deanesmay.com) is a weblog hosted by Dean Esmay. His interview with us was posted on July 30, 2003. It appears below with minor editing (such as the exclusion of the Chomsky cartoon, which makes no sense without colorheck, it barely makes sense with color). Introduction by Esmay: I first noticed Cox & Forkum when I spotted a cartoon called Bloggers Cycle (see page 222). I thought, Wow. These guys nailed me! I could have written this myself, if only I were that clever and talented. I immediately read the rest of the Cox & Forkum weblog, where I was astounded by the sharp, professional level of their work. Given the popularity of my interview with [cartoonist] Chris Muir earlier this year, I thought it would be fun to interview these guys, too. As their Web site explains, Allen Forkum generally writes the cartoons, while John Cox illustrates them. Theyve been collaborating together on various projects for many years, but have only recently branched out into political cartooning. Their work is currently unsyndicated, but they are self-publishing a book called Black & White World. ... I must say, they were a fun interview, and probably the easiest one Ive ever done. Esmay: Where do you guys hail from? Where do you live now? Forkum: Im from the Nashville area, and thats where I live now. Cox: I grew up all over. I was born in Pensacola, but by the time I graduated high school, we had lived in Cincinnati, Birmingham, Orangeburg, S.C., Houston, Denver, and finally Huntington, W.V. Today I live in Atlanta. Forkum: Since we have to collaborate from different cities, one might think we have a direct connection via the Internet. But were still using fax machines. [This is no longer the case.] I fax sketches to John. We discuss them by phone. He faxes back the roughs and finals. Technologically speaking, were stuck in the 80s. Cox: Thats 1880s. I recently sold my mule for a pack of quill pens and a whole bunch of fancy white paper. Esmay: I take it that you still use pen and ink, and then just scan the cartoons. What are your favorite art tools (pen, brush, inks, etc.)? Cox: Ive always had a love affair with old materials: oil on canvas, woodcuts, charcoal on parchment. Pen and ink has a rich tradition, and Ive been enjoying the chance to put my stamp on it along with my cartooning heroes: Michael Ramirez, Ben Sargent, Mike Peters, and Jim Borgman. I love the high-contrast nature of ink and the emphasis it puts on design. Our cartoons often require a certain trickery to pull off, so the challenge to raise the bar is fascinating to me. These days I use Faber Castell brush pens, Pigma Micron pens, Speedball steel-nib pens and smooth bristol board. I do all the pencil work with a 4H and a 2B ... and a big, fat eraser. Esmay: Your work is easily as good as most of whats seen on newspaper editorial pages. Have you approached any of the newspaper syndicates, to see if theyd be interested in your work? Forkum: So far weve only approached one syndicate. We were fortunate enough to have a contact at a syndicate that I thought was a perfect match for our work, because they had many columnists that our cartoons would compliment. But they turned us down. This was very early on, before we had a lot of work to show. We need to re-submit to them as well as other syndicates, but weve been too busy maintaining our blog and trying sell our selfpublished book, Black & White World. Cox: Before we tried our hand at editorial cartooning, Allen and I created Captain Speewak!, a daily comic strip that spoofed science fiction/adventure serials. It had ray guns, evil alien empires, idealistic heroes, disembodied tyrants and, of course, a large space ship shaped like a hand. None of the syndicates were interested in it. We still have a soft spot for the calamitous endeavor, so every once in a while it
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pops up in an editorial cartoon (e.g., Leftists in Space on page 29). Maybe Speewak will see the light of day when theres an audience for goofy space characters who do battle against intergalactic socialism. Esmay: Ever think about doing much with color in your cartoons? Cox: When it comes to bold, exaggerated cartooning, color can be a distraction. Black-and-white work seems to have the most emotional possibilities. Its probably why I prefer black-and-white photographyand zebras. Esmay: You dont cartoon full time, so what do you do when youre not cartooning? Cox: I raise gerbils and set them free. No, actually, I show my paintings at a local gallery and do caricature gigs at many corporate functions. Forkum: My background is in graphic design. Im co-owner and art director of a small newspaper publishing company, which is where John and I first collaborated on cartoons. The newspaper needed a monthly gag cartoon to accompany a humor column in Automotive Reports by a guy named Buster McNutt. That was in 1990 and weve been doing it ever since. By comparison, the Buster cartoons were and are light-hearted: Gorillas in tutus. Amish vs. Technology. Drive-thru plastic surgery. That sort of thing. Esmay: Your description of yourselves on your weblog says the two of you met in art school. Where did you go to art school? When did you graduateor did you? Forkum: We met at the Art Institute of Atlanta in 1983 in the Commercial Arts program. After a disappointing first year we decided, along with a few other students, to enroll at Dekalb Tech, which at the time had a highly-regarded commercial arts course. It was only a one-year
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program with no degree, but we learned a lot and ultimately graduated. I think we got certificates. Cox: Prior to that, I went to Marshall University just long enough to realize I wanted to go to an art school. After graduating from Dekalb, I hit the streets and landed a job at Cargill Wilson & Acree as a remarkably talented comp dudewhich means I drew mock-ups of ads. Yeah, I know: the glamour is blinding. Esmay: Your political cartooning seems to have begun primarily at The Intellectual Activist, and you say your cartoons are inspired by Objectivism, which is what Ayn Rand called her philosophy. To what extent would you consider yourselves to be Objectivists? Forkum: Im an Objectivist. Cox: Id be an Objectivist, too, if it werent for the funny hats. But really, when I was 23, I read The Fountainhead and was utterly transfixed. (I remember insisting that Allen read it ... geez, he read the hell out of it!) I immediately quit my second-hander job at Cargill and began my freelance and fine art career. Ive enjoyed Rands works ever since and find her emphasis on excellence and individualism a great source of creativity. Forkum: One reason I say inspired by is to indicate that were not trying to speak for
Objectivism. Read Ayn Rands brilliant books for that. She advocated, among other things, reason, individualism, secularism, individual rights and capitalism. The cartoons are usually created from that perspective. Im also literally inspired by Objectivism, inspired to speak out against todays irrationalism, whether its from Leftists, conservatives or libertarians. Esmay: Ive long been under the impression that most Objectivists have their senses of humor surgically removed. Thanks for clearing that up for me, but, have you ever noticed that some Rand devotees are a little, uh, rigid? Forkum: If you mean rigid in the moral sense, Objectivists are rigid. That is, we take an uncompromising stance on absolute moral principles. Objectivism is steel compared to todays rubbery moral relativism. But if by rigid you mean humorless, that hasnt been my experience. I have noticed that, because of Objectivisms emphasis on logic and reason, many
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people assume that it shuns emotions all together, as if the goal is to be Mr. Spock. Some Objectivists may even mistake it in such a way. But the philosophy is about rationally pursuing ones own happiness and having the moral right to do so. That requires passionate values and a love of life, which is what characterizes the Objectivists I know. Esmay: A large number of self-described Objectivists and libertarians firmly opposed the war in Iraq. Yet you have been generally supportive of the Bush administrations war policies. Why the disconnect, do you think? Forkum: The disconnect is that Objectivists arent libertarians, not if they follow Ayn Rands ideas consistently. She explicitly rejected libertarianism as anarchism years ago, and today its even clearer why she did. Prominent libertarian organizations opposed the war with Iraq as meddlesome government intervention, as if all government action is inherently wrong. Objectivism, however, holds that government is essential to a just society but must be limited to protecting individual rights. Such protection sometimes involves foreign intervention, such as waging wars against hostile enemies. If anything, it was a lack of interventionfrom the Iranian hostage crisis to the USS Cole bombing that emboldened the Islamist murderers of 9/11. Objectivists might disagree about military priorities, such as whether Iraq should have come before Iran, but none that I know were against war in principle. I recommend that people read the op-eds at the Ayn Rand Institute for more information. Esmay: You seem to pick on Democrats more than Republicans. Why is that? Cox: I cant draw elephants. Actually, the Leftists among Democrats are just hysterical to me. Their over-ripe sincerity must be lampooned.
Forkum: Recently, a couple of the Democratic presidential candidates were bragging about spending time in jail, as if were still in the 60s. Its a real challenge to top that with a cartoon. But we do criticize both parties, mostly for their socialistic expansion of the government. Its just that Democrats are generally worse about that than Republicansthough lately Bush seems to be trying to out-Left the Left. And weve been critical of Bush on other issues, such as his push for a Palestinian state and his multilateralist tendencies. Esmay: Many of your cartoons take a firmly pro-Israel stance. Why is that? Forkum: Our stance is that Israel, as a free country, has the right to militarily defend itself against terrorists, just as America does. Israel is hated by its enemiesboth in the Middle East and in the Westfor a number of reasons, not the least of which is anti-Semitism. But I think the primary reason is something Ayn Rand called the hatred of the good for being the good. For those who want Islamic fundamentalism to reign supreme, who despise individualism and capitalism yet envy its wealth and power, and who evade the blatant failure of their own socialistic ideals, Israel is a constant reminder of the truth that a small, poor, newly formed nation can grow into a prosperous, mighty nation by valuing freedom. That is also why America is hated. Cox: Yeah, what he said.
Esmay: Are either of you Jewish? Cox: Im not. Forkum: Me neither. But I might be if it werent for the funny hats. Esmay: Is there a difference, in your view, between patriotism and jingoism? If so, what is it? Forkum: I understand jingoism to be an irrational sort of patriotism, a nationalistic desire to wage war for wars sake, to conquer weaker countries, to expand an empire, like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. But patriotism is simply a love of ones country. In Americas case, that means a love of liberty and justice. Of course, to those who equate Bush to Hitler and America to an imperialist aggressor, patriotism and jingoism are probably indistinguishable.
The Eye on the Left Interview

Eye on the Left was a weblog hosted by John Little (the blog is now called Blogs of War www.blogsofwar.com). His interview with us was posted on September 29, 2003. It appears below with minor editing. Little: You created your blog to promote your book Black & White World. How is the book doing, and how is the blog impacting the way you work, communicate with fans, and promote yourselves? Forkum: Sales have been slow but steadynot as good as wed like, of course, but at this rate well eventually profit from it. We selfpublished the book, so it was a risky venture from the start. The blog has definitely helped sales. Certainly more people know of us now than before.
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Cox: For all the satisfaction
the book has offered, our work on the Web site has been a huge adrenaline rush. Speed and responsiveness are rewarded in blogging, and it has given me a chance to do the kind of work that normally doesnt thrive in conventional outlets. For all the quick reaction time and head-long thrill of instantaneous fan response, I swear there ought to be racing stripes and sponsor decals on my drawing board. Forkum: As an example of what John means, we were able to post our In the Dark cartoon (see page 81) within hours after the blackout happened. Having that kind of freedom is fun. Little: Why arent these guys syndicated? is a question I hear a lot. Is syndication necessarily an indication of success for cartoonists, and is it something youre pursuing aggressively? Forkum: Wed love to be syndicated, and were striving for it. With the blog were reaching a couple of thousand viewers a day on average. A syndicated cartoonist has the potential to reach hundreds of thousands. Not only would that much exposure be rewarding professionally, presumably the income would be better, too. Cox: To me, syndication would be the limo ride of cartooning. Blogging is more like a Ferrari road trip, opened up and blasting through the countryside. So far, the bug parts on my sunglasses seem kind of cool.
Little: In our two-party system theres the assumption that we operate from a common pool of values. Is that attachment still there for the Democratic Party or is the far-Left enveloping the mainstream Democrat? Forkum: As far as the Democratic leadership and prominent politicians go, I think the Leftist ideology has taken over. Im from Tennessee, and here rural Democrats are very different from urban Democrats. I think thats why Gore couldnt even carry his home state in 2000. Hed be president right now if he had, but he was too far left. Cox: Oooooooooh ... President Gore. Thats a case of Bombay Gin and four days in Vegas to a cartoonist. Little: The Left really appeared to be gaining momentum in the months leading up to the war in Iraq. The war took a lot of steam out of their movement, but theyre slowly gaining traction again. Do you think they will be able to focus the diverse coalition they assembled to oppose the war into defeating George Bush, or will they remain fractured by different priorities? Forkum: I think the Democrats are too fractured right now, but that doesnt mean they couldnt come together and pose a threat to Bush. It may simply depend on whether or not the Green Party fields a candidate and takes votes away from the Democrat nominee. I imagine that they will because they wont be able to resist the opportunity to bash Bush. Little: Are there any public figures on the Left that you can respect or that you believe would serve as proper role models for a rational Left or am I dealing in oxymorons here? Forkum: I dont know of anyone today.
Cox: I think youd have a better chance of seeing Schwarzenegger pass a diction course than witnessing a prominent Leftist spouting a rational approach to world leadership. Little: Your work is guided by the philosophy of Objectivism as opposed to a purely politically conservative viewpoint. Political differences aside, I often find myself most disturbed by the sheer lack of reason, of critical thought, that I find on the Left. Can you relate? Forkum: Absolutely. As far as theyre concerned, their socialistic ends justify their means. Reason and critical thinking only get in their way. Little: What do you think drives a person to associate President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, or Dick Cheney with a monster like Hitler while simultaneously appearing to be unmoved by the atrocities of a Saddam, bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, or the like? Where does this homegrown assumption of American evil by default come from? Forkum: From morality. Generally speaking, Leftists think it is morally wrong that America is rich and powerful while other countries are poor and weak. Their moralityaltruismdictates that the haves are morally obligated to sacrifice for the have-nots. Politically this leads to collectivism and socialism. America, on the other hand, is still basically individualistic and capitalistic. America is about being self-responsible, pursuing your own
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happiness and interests, making money and having the freedom to choose how you spend iteven if that means choosing not to give it away to the needy. What could be more evil by Leftist standards? To them, America is propagating the evil of capitalism and economic freedom. By comparison, the crimes of Saddam, bin Laden, and Kim Jong Il are considered lesser evils (if evil at all), crimes that are further mitigated by the socialistic/anti-American sentiments of the brutes who commit them. The Leftist moral evaluation of reality is the exact opposite of the truth because their morality is the exact opposite of the good. Little: Do you ever find yourselves at odds over creative or philosophical issues? How does the collaborative process work, and how do you resolve differences if they arise? Forkum: As the writer, I have the final say on philosophical and political issues, but its extremely rare that John and I find ourselves at odds. Our basic approach is that once we have an idea, whether its mine or Johns, whatever serves that idea becomes the standardthat is, whatever helps the cartoon communicate the intended message is good; whatever interferes is bad. Most often that approach is what resolves any differences of opinion in, say, how something looks or how something is written. Cox: And I would add that having worked with Allen for about 14 years, I can safely say we know each others aesthetics. The only time we seem to differ in a cartoons direction is when my attempts at exaggeration become overcooked. I like prodding and poking the outer limits of what makes a cartoon visually arresting. Little: What are your thoughts on your peers at the opposite end of the political spectrum? Can you look at a Ted Rall, for example, and appreciate the work but despise the message?
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Forkum: Not in the case of Ted Rall. But there are a lot of excellent cartoonists with Left-leaning politicsfar more from the Left than the Right. Just to name a few, Ben Sargent, Pat Oliphant, and Don Wright are all great artists and masters at communicating their ideas with powerful visuals, and thats true whether I agree with their opinions or not. And from the Right theres the wonderful Michael Ramirez. But far-Left cartoonists tend to merely write screeds with spot illustrations. Its as if they are so caught up in the words of ideology they cant even think of visual ways to communicate. I dont appreciate that type of editorial cartooning no matter what politics it espouses. Cox: Peers? We are the only two-headed, four-eyed, Objectivist visual commando this side of Pluto. Were a new mutation. I think Allens take on the news coupled with my insatiable need for inky fingers make us unique. Little: How did the events of 9/11 shape or impact your work? Forkum: We started editorial cartooning in mid-August 2001. I had written three cartoons, but we hadnt started drawing them yet. September 11 totally changed our approach. Rather than casually pursuing the work, I suddenly had a burning desire to speak out. The large majority of our cartoons have since dealt directly or indirectly with what we think is the appropriate response to the 9/11 attacks. Cox: It also triggered a dictum that Allen and I really treasure: Cartooning is pointless only if you make it pointless. September 11, 2001, was a watershed moment for everybody. For us as cartoonists, it was a call to arms, a call to challenge complacency and inaction. Thats what we strive to do.
The EGO Interview

EGO (egoist.blogspot.com) is a Swedish weblog hosted by Martin Lindeskog. His interview with us was posted on December 4, 2003. It appears below with minor editing. Introduction by Lindeskog: I have enjoyed Cox & Forkums editorial cartoons in The Intellectual Activist for a long time, and it was therefore very interesting to read Robert Tracinskis interview with the dynamic duo in the March 2002 issue of TIA. I was one of the first individuals who had the pleasure to find Cox & Forkums virtual home in cyberspace. I have enjoyed their book, Black & White World, very much. I hope this interview will give you additional insight to the interesting online interviews by Dean Esmay and John Little. Lindeskog: First of all, I want to thank you very much for your work with the EGO logotype. Do you want to tell my readers how you came up with the logotype? Forkum: The initial idea for the logo was a graphic solution using the word ego to
form a persons face, but the results didnt really connote egoism strongly enough. I knew John could illustrate a heroic, proud man, so that is the tack we took. The original drawing had a square border around it. We eliminated that so the man would be the highest graphic element in the logo. The sphere was meant to connote a lofty peak or even the world itself. Cox: Heroic was what I was shooting for. There was power in his stance that I think captured a sense of joy and determination. I really wanted to work simple, simple, simple. You put the logo on a jersey, and Ive worn that shirt out. I really liked the understated size of the artwork, yet its intent is a real attention-getter. That logo was a fun project. Lindeskog: Your first war cartoon was created on September 20, 2001. Please tell me your reactions to what happened on 9/11. Forkum: Disbelief, horror, fear, anger, grief ... and under all those feelings was a dismay at my own ignorance that such a threat even existed. Of course I knew that militant fundamentalist Muslims hated America and that they regularly attacked us overseas, from Lebanon to Africa to Yemen. I knew they had attacked the WTC once before. I knew the Taliban had destroyed non-Islamic statues in Afghanistan. I recalled the name Osama bin Laden. But I never imagined Islamists willingness and capacity to commit an atrocity on the scale of 9/11. It was a wake-up call for me, to better educate myself on the threat and how to defend ourselves against it. In particular I wanted to fight the battle against Islamist jihad ideology. That desire is fundamental to our editorial cartooning today. Cox: That day changed America. It changed me. How could it not? Now all I want to do is take the fight to the horrific ideologies that fueled such antiAmericanism. Were editorial cartoonists, so the battlefield is there.
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Lindeskog: Have you been in contact with many students through your blog? Forkum: Yes, theyve contacted us. University students have asked permission to use our cartoons on flyers advertising demonstrations and lectures. Some student newspapers have published our cartoons. The cartoon Affirmative Racism (see page 68) even caused somewhat of a controversy at Texas A&M. So theres definitely some interest there. Lindeskog: Whats your favorite source and inspiration for new cartoons? Forkum: Mainly current events, though sometimes we lead by commenting on issues we think are important. I spend a lot of time checking the latest news online at CNN, FoxNews, and Google News, as well as surveying information in the blogosphere, which is abundant and useful. I often wish that I had more time just to keep up with the blogosphere. The op-eds at The Ayn Rand Institute are also inspiring. Lindeskog: Whats your view on todays media? Forkum: My general view of them is pretty negative. There seems to be a gross lack of objectivity that leads to biases of every sort, from editorializing in news articles to the total evasion of important events. Some
of this may be laziness, some may be political sympathizing, and some may be out and out propagandizing. But whatever the reason, it is not good journalism. This is not to say that all journalists and every media outlet are corrupt in some way. I dont know enough to comment on the extent of the problem. But when you have major news organizations like Reuters that even after 9/11 refused to call terrorists terrorists, its an indication of deep problems. Lindeskog: During a panel discussion at the Oslo Objectivist Conference, one question was about the fact that several individuals have learned about Ayn Rands books and philosophy through listening to a rock group called Rush. Do you know if you have inspired some of your readers to check out literature by Ayn Rand? Forkum: Yes, a couple of people have mentioned to me that theyve looked further into Objectivism, and I find that immensely rewarding even though it is not the primary purpose of our cartoons.
Cartoon for Buster McNutt column
Lindeskog: What kind of different feedback have you gotten from your readers? Forkum: The overwhelming majority of our feedback is positive, but we also regularly receive criticism, from the full political spectrumconservatives, libertarians and Leftists. Cox: The biggest kick I get out of our work is opportunity to hear from folks so fast. Ive stated it before, but the time between airing the work and hearing what fans think of the work is now down to virtually nothing, and I truly dig the vulnerability ... laying it out there and experiencing the response. Lindeskog: It was very interesting to read the interview in TIA on how you developed an idea for a cartoon. You refer to Ayn Rands book, The Art of Nonfiction. How have you been able to achieve such clarity in your style? Forkum: Thats a tough question. Its partly a matter of practice. I used to write editorials for my own publications as well as write letters to editors of other newspapers. Effective op-eds and LTEs boil an issue down to its essence and comment on it concisely, often using analogies and metaphors to drive home a point. Creating cartoon ideas is a similar process. Beyond that, the execution of the drawing must clearly communicate the idea, which is where Johns skills are so important. Lindeskog: Could you compare an op-ed with an editorial cartoon? What are the differences and similarities? Forkum: Ive already mentioned some similarities above. Of course the main difference is that an editorial cartoon concretizes an opinion with an image. Metaphors and symbolism that are merely handy for an op-ed become essential tools in cartoons. The better editorial cartoons are the ones that emphasize visuals over words and dialogue. That doesnt mean that word-oriented editorial cartoons cant
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be effectivewe do that type all the time. But the strongest cartoons essentialize an idea to a quickly perceivable concrete. This strength in editorial cartoons is a weakness compared to op-eds, which can present full arguments, refer to multiple sources and contexts, and deal easily with high-level abstractions. Its basically the difference between a book and its cover. One advertises an opinion; the other explains it. Lindeskog: Have you read Ayn Rands book The Romantic Manifesto? Forkum: Yes, I highly recommend the bookall of Ayn Rands books are worth reading. The Romantic Manifesto is an excellent, philosophical analysis of art, from television to novels to painting. Cox: The Romantic Manifesto was a fun read. It kind of gave me a beginning point to justify my throwback aesthetic. Instead of being an unimaginative hack, I could be a messenger bringing back the joy of Realism. I found her words to be very invigorating. Now I had something to say to all those stiff-necked modernists who prefer barbaric paint globs over humanist values.
Lindeskog: John, for how many years have you been a painter of fine art? Whos your favorite artist? Cox: Ive been showing my paintings for ten years, and I hope to do it for the rest of my life. I consider my fine art goals to be the engine for my cartooning. A lot of the adrenaline rush I get from a sharp cartoon is found in the experience of selling a very personal painting. Ive come to realize that my two loves are inseparable, and I want to pursue them both with equal passion. Who are my painting heroes? Andrew Wyeth for his elegant use of the figure in large expanses of landscape. Edward Hopper for his sense of solitude in his work. He found a dignity in physical isolation that I find very romantic. Maxfield Parrish for his sense of design and his magical take on Realism. But for pure bravura and lust for the human experience, Id have to say writer Ernest Hemingways life is the most inspirational. Not his outrageous fame per se, or his shameless irresponsibility, but how he reveled in physical and intellectual pleasure. I really admire his sense of adventure and the courage to see it through. Although, I think Ill pass on the shotgun thing.
Lindeskog: Allen, could you provide us with a gag cartoon from your magazine, Automotive Report? How about something on the topic Amish versus Technology? Forkum: This cartoon (see page 239) is from 1996 and, if I remember correctly, it was entirely Johns idea. Cox: Yeah ... the Amish thing. Loaded with paradoxes that lead to some really funny ideas. Granted, the cartoon was also skirting the meaning of progress, but when I hit upon the idea of a horse crunched in a garage door, it became pure slapstick. The cartoon represents my tendency to make fun of religious dogma ... and dumfounded farm animals. Lindeskog: What are your plans for the future? When could we purchase your next book? Another Cox & Forkum product? Forkum: Were still striving for syndication. We recently sent out submissions and are waiting for reactions. In the meantime, were producing cartoons as if were syndicated. Publishing a second book is a strong possibility, perhaps sometime next year. But first we want to sell more copies of Black & White World. I have too many stored in my garage! Well likely add more t-shirts to our line. And were considering selling some of our original artwork. Cox: Ultimately, Id love to see our work in a big gallery show. Think of a nice airy room with cream walls and hundreds of original drawings all matted and glassed. Bottles of cabernet and pinot grigio piled near a bandstand oozing delicious jazz music across the room. Kind of a celebration of art and ideas. Until then, though, Im thrilled with the possibilities of where the drawings can lead us. I tell everyone, You aint seen nothing yet.
Interview about Israel

In June 2004, student Jackson Crawford interviewed Allen Forkum as part of a Professional Communications assignment at Texas Tech University. Crawford: You and John Cox have created numerous cartoons on the subject of Israel, and in particular the war waged on that country by Mohammedan terrorists. Why is this subject so important that you have chosen to draw this degree of attention to it? Forkum: Because of 9/11. Americas war against Islamic/Arab terrorism is essentially the same as Israels war, which they have been fighting for decades. Unfortunately for Americans, it took the atrocities of 9/11 to fully awaken most of us to the fact that we were already at warand I include myself among those awakened. Crawford: Is Israel a legitimate nation? Forkum: Absolutely. Its a free country, the freest country in the Middle East. There are property rights, freedom of speech, and basic guarantees of freedom. There is some socialismsuch as a military draftand some mixing of religion and government. But Israel is not a theocracy or a repressive dictatorship like the states surrounding it. Israels 1948 Proclamation of Independence declared, among other things, that the state will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of religion, race or sex; will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, education and culture. ... My understanding is that Israel later passed Basic Laws, which are similar to the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. With the possible exception of Turkey, there are no other states in the Middle East that protect individual freedom. Crawford: Would a Palestinian state be a legitimate nation?
Forkum: No, not today at least, because it would not protect individual freedom. Besides the illegitimate Palestinian claims that Israel has stolen their land, there is the fact the present-day Palestinian culture is hate-filled, authoritarian, militaristic, and terroristicfrom the children, who for decades have been taught to glorify suicide bombers and to hate Jews as a race, to the very leadership of the current Palestinian government, which is an advocate and sponsor of terrorism. Even Palestinians arent safe from their own terrorists; Palestinians thought to be cooperating with Israelis are dragged into the streets and murdered. There is no way to establish a legitimate nation in such a environment. A Palestinian state today would be a terror-sponsoring dictatorship, which is exactly the type of state were fighting in the war on terror. This doesnt mean that Palestinian Arabs are somehow inherently incapable of forming a legitimate, free state. But short of a foreign power occupying, de-terrorizing, and imposing a free state on them (as was done in Germany and Japan after World War II), Palestinian culture has much to overcome before it will recognize basic rights. And this assumes there is a geographical area that could be defined as Palestine, which is another matter. Crawford: What kind of action needs to be taken by Israel to combat the terrorist threat effectively? Forkum: As for military strategy, I dont have the knowledge to say, though the systematic assassination of terrorist leaders seems to be working well, as do the protective barriers. But in broad terms, they need to maintain a consistent, nonappeasing, uncompromising stance against the terrorists until they have won the war. And it is a war. Not a negotiation. Not a diplomatic problem. Its a war. Groups like Hamas, which have popular local and international support, target Jewish women and children for murder and openly state their goal of wiping Israel off
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the map. Theres no compromise with such people. Crawford: Is Israels security relevant to Americas? Forkum: Yes. As I said before, we are in essentially the same war, fighting the same enemy. We should not allow an allied free state to be lost to tyranny and terrorism at a time when were combating those very evils in other states in the region. Theres a reason Islamists refer to America as the Great Satan and to Israel as the Little Satan. Its not merely because we provide support for Israel; its because they rightly see America and Israel as a threat to their desire to establish Arab/Islamist dictatorships. Crawford: What would be the appropriate stance of the United States on Israel? Forkum: The U.S. should continue to provide Israel with financial and military support, but more importantly it should discontinue providing support to Israels enemies, such as the Palestinian Authority, and stop our present policy of moral equivalence. The Bush administration has
a very bad history on this issue, not only in treating Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian leaders as legitimate statesmen with a legitimate cause, but in actively pushing for a Palestinian state, with no indication of how the formation of a terrorist-sponsoring state would be avoided. Such hypocritical policies only undermine our war on terrorism. Crawford: Can you think of any current statesmen or political parties in the United States or in Israel who can be trusted to take an appropriate stance on Israels right to self-defense? Forkum: I dont know a lot about his history, but judging by his statements after 9/11, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only official who appears to understand what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. His book Fighting Terrorism is a must-read. For example, he writes regarding Iran, Syria, and the Palestinian Authority: These regimes, like all terrorist states, must be given a forthright demand: Stop terrorism, permanently, or you will face the wrath of the free worldthrough harsh and sustained political, economic, and military
sanctions. ... The immediate objective is to end all state support for and complicity with terror. The fact that, almost three years after 9/11, the U.S. government still gives money to the Palestinian Authority indicates how far we have to go. Crawford: Many people claim to be antiZionist but not anti-Semitic. Is this possible? Forkum: No. The Zionist movement created a Jewish nation that protects the rights of its citizens regardless of religion or race, not a Jewish theocracy that imposes religious law on its citizens, outlaws other ideologies, and persecutes nonJewsthough an Islamic version of the latter is found in the vast majority of Arab countries. Had Zionism been a theocratic movement, one could have argued against Zionism on philosophical and political grounds. But it was not a theocratic movement, even though some early Zionist factionsamong many factionswanted to establish a theocracy. There are Israelis today who, wrongly, want the government to be less secular and more Judaic, just as there are Americans who wrongly want the U.S. government to be more Christian. But Israel is a free state. And theres nothing wrong with the notion that Jews should have the right to establish a free state as a homeland. Unless one is an anti-Semite.
A cartoon from our first book, which can also be seen in the background of the previous cartoon.
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Appendix
Appendix
Anti-Bushites for Bush
by Robert W. Tracinski This editorial by Robert W. Tracinski appeared as a longer version in the September 2004 issue of The Intellectual Activist. As an endorsement of President Bush over Senator Kerry in the presidential election, it may seem irrelevant now that Bush has won. But the article is more than a mere endorsement, for it not only gives reasons for supporting Bush in his second term but also explains in what ways Bush should be opposed. Since we agree with the politics and philosophy presented in the editorial, we include it here to indicate where some the ideas for our cartoons came from and where they are going. In the months before the 1972 election, Ayn Rand gave her recommendation for voting in that years presidential election:
I am not an admirer of President Nixon, as my readers know. But I urge every able-minded voter, of any race, creed, color, age, sex, or political party, to vote for Nixonas a matter of national emergency. This is no longer an issue of choosing the lesser of two commensurate evils. The choice is between a flawed candidate representing Western civilizationand the perfect candidate of its primordial enemies. If there were some campaign organization called Anti-Nixonites for Nixon, it would name my position. The worst thing said about Nixon is that he cannot be trusted, which is true: He cannot be trusted to save this country. But one thing is certain: McGovern can be trusted to destroy it.
in 1972, Nixon had already imposed wage and price controls on the U.S. economy and made his famous trip to China, where he betrayed Taiwan in order to appease the Chinese Communists. In one other respect, Bush
is worse: He is much more sympathetic to the agenda of the religious right. Moreover, Kerry is not as clearly evil as McGovern. While the McGovern campaign had floated a proposal, for example, to cap all private incomes at $20,000 per year, one has to go decades back into Kerrys past to discover his more flamboyant expressions of anti-Americanism. The essentials, however, are the same. Kerry may not be the perfect candidate for the enemies of civilizationbut he is their candidate, nonetheless, and he must be defeated. Bush is far from being the perfect candidate for those who want a vigorous defense of civilization against murderous Islamic fanatics. But he is our candidate, such as he is, and he deserves our support. The issue in 1972 was whether America would be delivered over to the strident socialism and anti-Americanism of the New Left. The issue in 2004 is whether we will retreat in the War on Terrorism. Both parties have made the war the main issue. They had no choice in the matter: It is the most pressing issue facing the government of the United States today. We are actively at war with Islamic insurgents in Iraq, and the next year will determine whether we persevere or retreat. The issue, at this point, is not whether we will fight the war properly. It is not, despite the rhetoric at this years Republican National Convention, whether we will be fierce and relentless, firm and unyielding, and so on. The issue is whether we will fight at all whether we will regard this war as a necessity that cannot be avoided and which we cannot afford to lose, or whether we accept the claim that taking the offensive against terrorist regimes is a fatal moral and diplomatic blunder that has turned America into a rogue nation.
This, in essence, is TIAs recommendation for voting in this years election. We urge our readers to be anti-Bushites for Bush. There are some differences between now and 1972. George W. Bush is, in some ways, not as bad as Nixon. By this point
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Readers of TIA know our opposition to the policies of George W. Bushfrom his diplomatic efforts to save Yasser Arafat in the spring of 2002, through his elaborate year-long charade of seeking U.N. resolutions to justify the invasion of Iraq, to the most disheartening events of all: his endorsement of disastrous deals that allowed insurgent leaders to remain alive and defiant in Fallujah and Najaf. If Bush faced a pro-war opponent, a politician who promised to crush the insurgents and confront their sponsors in Iran and Syria, we would endorse him without hesitation. The Democratic Party was unable to produce such a candidate. They were unable to do it because the moral base of the party is now fully grounded in the antiAmerican New Left. The New Left believes that America, as the armed defender of capitalism, is a force for evil in the world that must be restrained. The New Lefts 32-year-old grip on the Democratic Party was tested in this years primaries, and it proved unbreakable. True, Democratic voters did not choose the rabidly anti-war Howard Deanbut only because they did not believe he was electable. They chose, instead, a candidate who would dress up the same antiwar ideas in more respectable camouflage. But as we described in the March issue of TIA (and have explored in even more detail in our e-mail news and commentary service, TIA Daily), John Kerry is a consistent, life-long exponent of the New Left outlook. He began his political career by declaring his desire to subordinate the U.S. to the United Nations, by slandering his fellow veterans with fabricated New Left propaganda about wartime atrocities, and by demanding an immediate and unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, plus the payment of reparations to the Communist government of North Vietnam. When he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he opposed the Reagan-era military buildup and fought to eliminate U.S. support for
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anti-Communist forces in Central America. The Republicans have successfully portrayed Kerry as a waffler, with a good deal of justification. But the waffles and
flip-flops are not the essence of Kerrys record. They are the political expedients intended to hide the essence of his agendawhich has not changed since his days as a New Left anti-war protester. The Bush campaign has struck back at Kerry by promising to remain on the offensive against terrorism, to be fierce and relentless. But we know, from three years of bitter experience, that these promises will be continually undercut by altruism and pragmatism. So why would Bush be better than Kerry? He is better because of the forward strategy of freedom. The forward strategy of freedom is the name Bush has given to his grand strategythe administrations highest-level plan of actionin the War on Terrorism. It is a grand strategy that necessarily puts America into conflict with its chief enemies, committing us to spreading representative government and free institutions to overhaul the political system of the Middle East. September 11 demonstrated that it is necessary to topple and destroy the Middle Eastern regimes that use terrorism as a weapon against the Westthe principle behind the Bush Doctrine. President Bush has applied that doctrine to two regimes, and though he deserves criticism for not doing more, he deserves credit for doing that much. But even military campaigns are not enough, over the long term. Even if President Bush applied the Bush Doctrine consistently (against Iran and Syria) and backed it up with the maximum force available, that would still leave the question: then what? What would prevent the re-emergence of new terrorist regimes to replace the old ones? The only long-term answer is that the Arab and Muslim worlds must be
civilized. They must have imposed on them a better system of government, one that allows, for the first time in the Arab world, the material vibrancy of a relatively free economy and the spiritual vibrancy of the free exchange of ideas. This would do exactly what the clashing examples of East Berlin and West Berlin did in the Cold War: It would provide an unanswerable demonstration of the benefits of a free society on one side, contrasted to misery and oppression on the other side. Replacing at least a few despotic Middle Eastern regimes with relatively free governments is the most important thing that can be done in the military and political realms to defeat the philosophy that animates Islamic terrorism. Note also that, despite the Bush administrations Cold War-style half-measures in following the implications of its strategy, the forward strategy of freedom does commit Bush to an inevitable confrontation with the chief sponsor of Islamic terrorism and the main model of Islamic theocracy: Iran. Turning Iraq into the model for a free societythe administrations main goal right now in the Middle Eastis an ideological weapon aimed directly at Iraqs neighbor. The administration has not taken the logical next step of actively supporting internal dissent against Irans theocracy, though they have hinted at this. But their premises about the proper strategy for the war provide at least some hope for a more vigorous policy against Iran in their second term. By contrast, there is no hope of such a strategy from John Kerry, who has proposed a generous diplomatic grand bargain with Iran and criticized even the Bush administrations weak policy for being too confrontational. President Bush has an essentially correct grand strategy in the War on Terrorism, but since his outlook is deeply undercut by altruism and pragmatism, that grand strategy will be executed in a muddled,
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confused, halting, and tentative manner. On the diplomatic level, the administration will continue to alternate between criticizing the U.N. and appeasing it, wasting months or years in futile diplomatic wrangling. This is a particularly vital problem in dealing with Iran, where diplomatic dithering could delay a confrontation until after the theocracy has already armed itself with nuclear weapons. On the strategic level, the administration has treated Iraq as a battle that can be fought in isolation, rather than as just one step in a regional war. Hence, while the invasion and occupation of Iraq put America on the offensive in a larger sense, the strategy of this particular battle is defensive. It consists of fighting off the isolated attacks of insurgents within Iraqwhile refusing to take the offensive against the outside sponsors and supporters of that insurgency in Syria and Iran. On the tactical level, this administration has been far too eager to mollify European critics, the Arab street, and the sensibilities of Islamic fanatics by shrinking from the ruthless use of force to put down the insurgencies in Fallujah and Najaf. Instead, it has passed the buck to the vacillating political leadership in Iraq and to the still-weak Iraqi armed forces. But it is the administrations highest-level plan for the conduct of the war that is most important. Errors and evasions in the execution of the administrations strategy can be survived and overcome if the grand strategy is essentially correct. Contrast this to what Kerry has to offer on the war. Amidst his contradictory statements, his grand strategy is clear: he would treat the war as a matter for diplomacy, intelligence, and lawenforcement, not for military action against Americas enemies. And on the philosophical levelhis view of the
essence of a proper foreign policyhe is also clear: He would sacrifice American interests for the sake of the collective security allegedly to be gained by abdicating leadership to the Europeans and the U.N. As this issue goes to press [in September 2004], Kerry has already translated those principles into a formal policy of withdrawal and retreat from Iraq, denouncing the conflict as the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time and promising to begin withdrawing U.S. troops by the middle of next year. He claims that he would bring in more European allies to take our place. But this is clearly a ruse. What ally would agree to move forward when America has chosen to retreat? And how could Kerry, of all people, convince the Europeans to take up the burdens of a war he regards as a blunder? It is possible that Kerry, if elected, would be stronger at first than his public statements and past record indicate. He might feel the need, out of political expediency, to authorize significant new military actions in Iraq to prove that he is not weak. But over the long term he would have no choice but to be guided by his deepest, longest-held convictions. Sitting alone in the Oval Office, he would hear the words he spoke to the Senate as an anti-war protester in 1971: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? Withdrawal is the only strategy that this inner voice would permit. The unfortunate choice is this: George W. Bush is a candidate who stands for a vigorous projection of American power to reshape the political structure of the Middle East, destroying the political underpinnings of Islamic terrorism whose execution of that goal is continually undercut by compromise and appeasement. John Kerry is a candidate who stands for American withdrawal and passivityfor whom any expression of American strength would be an act of compromise.
George W. Bush cannot be trusted to fight the war properly, but John Kerry can be trusted to surrender. The main issue of this election is the war, but we must also look at the candidates domestic agendas, and this is where President Bush is least appealing. Bushs economic policies are a dangerous muddlecombining minor elements of the free market, liberal doses of free-market rhetoric, and even larger doses of new spending on government welfare programs. But the worst part of Bushs domestic agenda is his view of the role of religion in politics. In his limitation of government funding for research into new genetic therapies, in his attempts to ban late-term abortions in order to set a precedent for banning all abortions, in his support for a constitutional amendment deliberately targeted at prohibiting gay marriage, in his program to give faith-based charities equal access to federal welfare funds, in his endorsement of the words under God in the Pledge of Allegiance as a statement of the nations relationship to the AlmightyBush has consistently attempted to erode the wall of separation between church and state, to allow more influence for religion in the public square. Kerrys only advantage over Bush is his secularism. He is still a mix, talking to reporters about his religious convictions and denouncing as half-assed the appeals court ruling that removed the words under God from the Pledge of Allegiance. But he has also stated that his religious convictions are private, that as president he would be a lay leader, i.e., he would be serving in a non-religious position, and so he would not impose religious dictates by force of law. Thus, he is pro-choice on abortion and in favor of removing religiously motivated restrictions on federal funding for research into biotechnology. But the most pressing issue today is clearly the War on Terrorism. If we retreat
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now, in the face of terrorist attacks in Iraq, then the Islamic fundamentalists will be immeasurably emboldened and Americas defense will be severely weakened. In this context, George Bushs religious agenda has to be secondary. The growing influence of the religious right at home is indeed an ominous threat to liberty. But whether or not America retreats in the War on Terrorism will be decided in the next four years. Whether or not America maintains the separation of church and state is an issue that will be fought over a much longer time. It is a threat that is gathering strength, not one that has come to a head. The proper outlook is summed up by Ron Silver, an actor well known as a staunch Hollywood liberal who spoke at the Republican convention in support of President Bushs re-election. Silver describes himself as a 9/11 Republican, converted by September 11 into a supporter of an assertive foreign policy. As he explained to a reporter: If we dont get this right, all the other things dont matter worth a hill of beans. Ill live to fight another day on health care, environmental concerns, and sensible gun legislation. But this is such a predominant issue that it towers above all others. Similarly, if we keep Islamic terrorism at bay, we will live to fight another day on prayer in schools, on God in the Pledge of Allegiance, on stem-cell research and abortion. This is why we must be anti-Bushites for Bush. We should support him, on the grounds that he is the only candidate who wants to fight the war, and because he has an essentially correct grand strategy for achieving victory over the long termbut we should oppose most of his domestic agenda and oppose the compromises and weakness of his foreign policy. This position reflects the intellectual and cultural climate of the past century.
America is a philosophical battleground: a battleground between reason and subjectivism and between secularism and religion; between egoism and altruism and between individualism and collectivism; between socialism and capitalism and between freedom of thought and censorship. Any politician who can even become eligible for high public office, especially on the national level, necessarily reflects this mix. If he did not, he would be unable to appeal to a large number of voters. In this context, where every party and every candidate is a confused mix of good and bad premises, fighting for individual rights in the political arena will always require a dual approach: It means fighting for a candidate when he proposes to act in defense of liberty on the most important issues of the daythen fighting against him when he betrays his promises or when he promotes policies that threaten individual liberty. Thus, I do not recommend merely that TIAs readers reluctantly cast their votes for Bush on election day. Both parts of the slogan anti-Bushites for Bush imply the need for sustained action. By being for Bush, I meant that we should actively advocate and promote Bushs reelection, but do so on specific, narrow grounds: that it would be a disaster to retreat in the War on Terrorism. But we should also be prepared, after the election, to immediately and vigorously oppose everything that is wrong with the Bush agendato demand that he live up to his fierce rhetoric in prosecuting the war, and to oppose his attempts to expand the welfare state and to inject religion into politics. This, in the fullest sense, is what it means to be an anti-Bushite for Bush. It describes, not just a recommendation for how to vote on November 2, but a plan for how to influence the most fundamental political and cultural debates over the following decades.
Index
This index lists characters, countries, organizations, and people appearing in or the subject of cartoons in this book. CHARACTERS American Eagle 38, 68 Batman 205 Bull and Bear markets 99 Captain Lefty 107 Captain Speewak 234 Cyclops 176 Darth Vader 160 Donkey (Democrat) 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 29, 47, 57, 61, 62, 65, 71, 72, 73, 77, 81, 82, 91, 95, 109, 110, 111, 117, 125, 129, 131, 138, 152, 153, 159, 170, 176, 195, 203, 210, 223, 224 Dove 85, 175, 199, 210 Elephant (Republican) 7, 9, 13, 29, 65, 110, 170, 185, 195, 205, 224 Frankensteins Monster 205 Grim Reaper 116, 161, 229 Harry Potter 67 Hawk 199 King Kong 178 Kleenors 29, 234 Lady Justice 193 LFG Lizardoids 220 Little Red Riding Hood 3 Multilateral Man 10, 113 Ronald McDonald 98 Santa Claus 118, 226 Satan 35 Spider-Man 24 Statue of Liberty 47, 126, 158, 176, 242 Superman 24 Thor 24 Ultra Sensitive Man 179 Uncle Sam 12, 14, 16, 30, 41, 43, 87, 93, 120, 138, 139, 144, 152, 153, 154, 160, 181, 190, 200, 208, 217, 223 COUNTRIES Afghanistan 88, 123, 126, 200, 209 Australia 42 Cambodia 181, 204 Canada 41, 161 China 40, 62, 92, 97, 113, 177 Cuba 40, 49, 52, 62, 92 France 4, 33, 37, 44, 48, 155, 156, 161, 184, 197, 199, 228 Germany 33, 48, 161, 197
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Greece 177, 180 Haiti 135 Iran 17, 19, 20, 40, 49, 66, 70, 71, 72, 74, 91, 92, 95, 100, 117, 121, 130, 135, 136, 137, 139, 144, 156, 162, 168, 171, 175, 182, 192, 194, 221 Iraq 27, 32, 35, 40, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 60, 75, 95, 103, 104, 115, 125, 142, 146, 151, 155, 162, 166, 191, 195, 196, 198 Israel 32, 53, 59, 60, 64, 66, 79, 80, 83, 96, 112, 137, 147, 170, 194, 206, 210, 242 Italy 161 Japan 55, 161 Jordan 53 Liberia 76 Libya 40, 92, 117 Nigeria 94 North Korea 9, 19, 22, 23, 25, 40, 49, 55, 74, 86, 92, 100, 117, 128, 183 Old Europe 30, 181, 206 Pakistan 130 Palestinian State 53, 59, 60, 83, 147 Russia 4, 44, 48, 161, 185, 187, 199, 214 Saudi Arabia 4, 16, 17, 40, 75, 89, 106, 158, 161, 165, 179 South Korea 55 Spain 34, 139, 155 Sudan 174 Syria 40, 49, 92, 95, 96, 102 Taiwan 113, 177 Turkey 36 United Kingdom 42, 110, 161 Venezuela 20 Vietnam 196 Zimbabwe 40 ORGANIZATIONS al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades 80 al-Jazeera 221 al-Qaeda 14, 17, 57, 86, 88, 106, 107, 108, 109, 145, 158, 171, 154 Castle Coalition 225 CNN 43, 49, 69 Democratic National Committee 138, 173 Earth Liberation Front 84 Fatah 124 G-8 63, 161 Green Party 82 Hamas 66, 79, 80, 83, 124, 132, 141
Hezbollah 132, 171 Indymedia 220 Islamic Jihad 80, 132 Ku Klux Klan 68 NATO 34 The New York Times 28, 35, 56, 69, 209 Palestinian Authority 172 PeTA 13, 87 PLO 129, 170 Republican National Committee 185 Supreme Court 69, 70, 163 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 182 Taliban 88 United Nations 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28, 31, 40, 41, 87, 92, 96, 100, 112, 116, 135, 148, 151, 152, 162, 170, 192, 197, 199, 202 PEOPLE Abbas, Mahmoud 64, 90 Abdullah 16, 75, 161, 165 al-Sadr, Moqtada 144, 175, 179, 180 Allawi, Ayad 195 Annan, Kofi 18, 50, 96, 112, 135, 152, 192, 197, 199, 202, 214 Arafat, Yasser 2, 4, 53, 64, 80, 85, 90, 108, 141, 147, 172, 206, 210, 214, 240, 242 Arnett, Peter 45, 69, 214 Assad, Bashar 49, 92, 102, 214 Baghdad Bob 48, 69, 107 Berg, Nick 154 Berger, Sandy 173 Berlusconi, Silvio 161 bin Laden, Osama 65, 91, 108, 163, 168, 207 Blair, Tony 53, 110, 161 Blix, Hans 14, 26, 37, 39, 214 Brahimi, Lakhdar 151 Burk, Martha 15 Bush, George W. 2, 5, 10, 14, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 37, 39, 51, 55, 61, 62, 63, 72, 74, 76, 87, 90, 92, 93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 102, 109, 110, 111, 113, 117, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 131, 137, 145, 147, 150, 161, 179, 186, 188, 189, 193, 194, 196, 198, 204, 207, 223, 242, 244 Byrd, Robert 55 Carter, Jimmy 4, 9, 52, 112, 141, 219, 237
Castro, Fidel 4, 49, 52, 62, 92 Chalabi, Ahmad 156 Cheney, Dick 93, 150 Cheney, Mary 202 Chirac, Jacques 32, 33, 34, 36, 41, 44, 48, 50, 63, 94, 111, 161, 184, 197, 199, 214 Chretien, Jean 41 Clark, Wesley 99, 105, 116, 133, 141 Clarke, Dick 140, 142 Clinton, Bill 91, 141, 164, 173 Clinton, Hillary 63, 167, 214 Columbus, Christopher 215 Corrie, Rachel 219 Daschle, Tom 2, 5, 11, 47, 223 Davis, Gray 96 Dean, Howard 54, 77, 91, 105, 113, 116, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 141, 223 Edwards, John 54, 123, 125, 171, 174, 198, 199, 202, 217 Fridman, Gal 183 Gargano, Charles 225 Gephardt, Dick 54, 58, 125 Gore, Al 6, 20, 132, 141 Greenspan, Alan 11, 99 Hirohito 116 Hitler, Adolf 116, 122, 196, 204 Hu Jintao 62 Hussein, Saddam 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 17, 21, 26, 31, 33, 35, 36, 39, 42, 45, 46, 47, 65, 74, 78, 91, 108, 109, 114, 116, 132, 140, 163, 169, 189, 199, 236 Hussein, Uday & Qusay 54, 74, 107 Jackson, Michael 114 Jefferson, Thomas 213 Jiang Zemin 4, 92 Junichiro Koizumi 161 Kahn, Genghis 116 Karzai, Hamid 209 Keeshan, Bob 127 Kennedy, Ted 2, 11, 47, 223 Kerry, John 47, 54, 58, 91, 123, 125, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 138, 141, 142, 143, 150, 152, 153, 159, 171, 174, 175, 181, 182, 186, 188, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 208, 214, 216, 217, 245 Khamenei, Ali 49, 66, 71, 124, 130, 132, 136, 144, 156, 168, 192, 194, 221 Khan, Abdul Qadeer 130
Kim Jong Il 4, 23, 25, 49, 74, 86, 92, 100, 108, 117, 128, 183 King, Martin Luther Jr. 83 Kucinich, Dennis 54, 105, 123, 125 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 216 Lieberman, Joe 54, 58, 77, 123 Limbaugh, Rush 97 Lott, Trent 19 Mao Tse-tung 116 Martin, Paul 161 Marx, Karl 40, 167 Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh 38 Moore, Michael 40, 148, 157, 169, 187, 189, 209, 214, 216, 225
Moore, Roy 84, 85 Moseley Braun, Carol 54, 105, 125 Mugabe, Robert 4 Musharraf, Pervez 130 Mussolini, Benito 116 Nader, Ralph 58, 134, 205 Pelosi, Nancy 47, 214 Penn, Sean 21 Powell, Colin 90, 101, 155, 156, 191 Presley, Elvis 65 Putin, Vladimir 33, 44, 48, 161, 199, 214, 215 Qaddafi, Muammar 92, 117 Qureia, Ahmed 90 Rall, Ted 152
Rangel, Charles 47 Rantissi, Abdel Aziz 141, 147 Rather, Dan 190, 191, 192, 194, 209 Reagan, Ronald 160 Rice, Condoleezza 143 Rose, Pete 122 Rumsfeld, Donald 44, 93, 102, 103 Sahaleh, Ateqeh 182 Schroeder, Gerhard 33, 48, 161, 197 Schwarzenegger, Arnold 79, 96 Shakespeare, William 224, 227 Sharon, Ariel 53, 59, 90, 98, 129, 147 Sharpton, Al 54, 58, 91, 123
Socrates 204 Stalin, Joseph 116 Stewart, Martha 67, 172 Thurmond, Strom 19 Wellstone, Paul 11 Wray, Fay 178 Wright, Orville & Wilbur 115 Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed 141, 147
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