The best Pollitical Cartoon i have seen in a while

[Viking 0]

Bald Eagle sharpening his claws HELL YES!!!
I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver

[miked10270 0]

Yeah... very appropriate.
My own favourite was a quote from a Robin Williams stage act... "Americans. We're a peaceful people, but if you piss us off we'll flatten your cities!"
Turn sand into glass.
Mike D10270.

[Brokeneagle 0]

Interesting. Disturbingly interesting. How far do YOU think we'll go on retaliation?
Brokeneagle.
I'm really very gentle, no matter what my kung-fu teacher says...

[miked10270 0]

Hi Eagle,
DId you see the TV footage of President Bush getting out of VMH1 a few hours after the attacks? Even the Light Infantry only do 140 paces per minute - That was the walk of a man in a rage! The words and body language during his speeches may appear reasoned but away from that he gives the impression of someone in the "Big Stick Shop"!
I think the actual actions to be taken are very much up in the air at the moment - The way things are going I don't think that there will be a single simple act of reciprocity for the terrorist attack. The US will demand Bin-Laden's delivery to them and I think that your president will escalate this as far as neccessary to achieve that. Some Islamic countries are presently threatening a Jihad (holy war) over any US response to these attacks - i.e. Their script is that the US should just accept these attacks (as they have largely done so in the past).
I think that the "First World" will be intransigent regarding their demands over this incident. I know that the relevant Islamic states will be equally intransigent. That is how wars start and I personally see little point in fighting a war fairly! The "First world" leaders should accept that there WILL be war and should not try to restrict themselves and attempt to fight a "Police Action" (as was done in Vietnam).
Just my $0.02.
Mike D10270.

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That is how wars start and I personally see little point in fighting a war fairly! The "First world" leaders should accept that there WILL be war and should not try to restrict themselves and attempt to fight a "Police Action" (as was done in Vietnam).

If it comes to this, I fervently hope that Bush and the other leaders go into it with this mindset.
I think any action should have NATO's blessing, and if NATO can't arrive at a consensus.....then we should form a new Alliance of countries that will.....it's been done before. Even though I am a child of the "Cold War", I find it heartening that Russia, and others most of us would consider our relationship with as "strained" at best, have already offered their assistance.
Don

[PalmettoTiger 1]

Hi guys and gals. Don't have much time to post here anymore due to the start of classes, but I'll offer this as the best statement of US resolve I've seen yet:
"Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political, and class division, but a family nonetheless. So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know what you just started.
But you're about to learn."
-Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald, September 12, 2001
Stay safe and God bless.
TIGER

[Viking 0]

to Mr. Leonard Pitts Jr, you sir took the words right out of my mouth!
also Bush's speach saying "You choosed the time and the date that this all started, but we shall choose the time that it ends" I bet daddy bush is beaming with pride at how his boy is handling this.
I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver