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Amazingly, most people seem to misinterpret the Photoshop illustration below as being a "patriotic" pro shrub illustration, when in fact it is my biting social commentary on the rabid, war mongering, flag-waving trend of nationalism that swept across the country in the wake of 9-11. This is how we look to the rest of the world and it is not a pretty picture. Now that the war in Afghanistan is essentially over, shrub seeks to provoke a response from Iraq, Iran or North Korea by naming them "the axis of evil" in what was a virtual declaration of war during his recent state of the union address. Which, by the way, is the scariest thing I have seen since The Blair Witch Project. (Check out my knock off on the movie poster by clicking here.) Tragically he seems willing to sacrifice any number of american lives to keep his approval rating from dwindling. |
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And I for one am about sick of the "Ground Zero Flag." It has become the Turin Shroud of shrub's holy war for american oil interests.
Needless to say I am not surprised by the recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle about shrub giving $98 million to the Colombian government to protect an oil pipeline in that country. Kind of makes you wonder what the war on drugs is really all about. The bottom line is this. The rich have nothing to gain by winning the war on terrorism, or the war on drugs, and everything to gain by continuing to fight them. So these "wars" will never be won. Religion and "patriotism" are just tools used to manipulate the masses and maximize profits. The real problem in the world is not terrorism or drugs, it's greed. |
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| And while I am touching on the subject of religion, it seems more and more as if shrub is bent on starting a world war. Perhaps he and his bible thumping cronies think it will vindicate those who continue to believe a 2000 year old fable if he can fulfill the prophecies of war from the book of revelations. Last year when I designed the $3 bill for Ray Taliaferro I think a lot of people wondered about my choice to include a nuclear explosion among it's images. I think they are beginning to understand now.
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