Time Warp (Can you date these episodes from "Get Your War On"?

[shereads]

A comic strip called Get Your War On debuted soon after we began delivering democracy to Afghanistan. (Remember Osama Bin Laden? Remember wondering if the safest way to drop food into the bombed areas was in wooden crates the size of VW Beetles? Remember those Afghani women who briefly appeared in public without their bhurkas? Those were giddy times, weren't they?)

I went online just now to replace my torn print-out of my all-time-favorite episode, and I was struck by how little has changed. Other than the loosened dress code that women enjoyed in Afghanistan for the few weeks before the press left, I must be missing something because I don't see much benefit to America's security and the advance of democracy, considering the lives lost and the lack of any evident plan for the future of Afghanistan and/or Iraq.

Here's the link to the site (where we can support capitalism by purchasing Get Your War On t-shirts!) I wanted to attach my favorite strip, but when I convert these to JPG they come out B/W reverse...

Hell, I'm attaching it anyway. Here's what it said when it was readable:

Frame 1. Guy #1 says: "You know who I've really come to like in all of this? John Ashcroft. The guy just gives me a warm feeling."

Frame 2: Guy #2 says nothing, stares at phone.

Frame 3: Guy #1 says: "Good grief, these are some powerful antidepressants I'm taking! Even my smiles are smiling."



Here's the link, so that those of you who don't yet get a warm feeling from the Attorney General can still Get Your War On. They're readable here, unlike my attachment. Enjoy.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

 

[snooper]

... because I don't see much benefit to America's security and the advance of democracy, considering the lives lost and the lack of any evident plan for the future of Afghanistan and/or Iraq. ...

Well, I think the plan for Afghanistan is clear, if not often stated explicitly.

The people are back to their main source of income, which the Taliban suppressed rigorously, and the wholesale price of heroin in the West has dropped dramatically with the new crop coming in. Soon that price drop will make itself felt at retail level.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Time Warp (Can you date these episodes from "Get Your War On"?

Well, I think the plan for Afghanistan is clear, if not often stated explicitly.

The people are back to their main source of income, which the Taliban suppressed rigorously, and the wholesale price of heroin in the West has dropped dramatically with the new crop coming in. Soon that price drop will make itself felt at retail level.

Could the War On Terror beat up the War On Drugs?

 

[ruminator]

Re: Re: Re: Time Warp (Can you date these episodes from "Get Your War On"?

Could the War On Terror beat up the War On Drugs?

Are we going by fatalities or gross sales for the leaderboard?

 

[snooper]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Time Warp (Can you date these episodes from "Get Your War On"?

Are we going by fatalities or gross sales for the leaderboard?

How about taxpayers' money wasted?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Thanks, S darling. That’s a very funny site.

I especially like the strip where the guy’s rewriting the constitution according to Bush/Cheney and saying: “And now for an amendment saying WE WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER DEVELOP SOLAR POWER, NO MATTER HOW MUCH FUCKING SENSE IT MAKES! Fucking goddamn sun!”

Brilliant stuff.

---dr.M.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Here's the link, so that those of you who don't yet get a warm feeling from the Attorney General can still Get Your War On. They're readable here, unlike my attachment. Enjoy.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

Thanks Sher,

That was entertaining! I need to go back and read some others. I had never heard of this before now. Of course I don't subscribe to rolling stones either.

Much of that is worthy of a chuckle!