Wow. The Iraq Vets Against The War site! Have you seen it?

This response to Bush's escalation speech is particularly eloquent.

"The people that Bush tries to paint as ‘terrorists’ are really local antagonists. They are citizens of Iraq who feel that the U.S. military is so oppressive that it is worth destroying one Humvee at a time. When sweeps are conducted the insurgents merely go to ground, sitting passively in their homes with their families as our soldiers rifle through their belongings in a vain attempt to find contraband that isn’t there, or is so well hidden that it would take far too long to uncover in the sweep of such a large area. They will always have more time to hide than we have to search. The entire time, American soldiers wearing full body armor and supported by armored vehicles and aircraft are breaking down doors, pulling up carpets and otherwise tearing the house apart. They will not, of course, put everything back in its place when they are done. The soldiers will speak directly to women, giving them orders and sometimes even making physical contact in order to get the women clustered together in one room, where they are easily controlled. The damage done to the familial and tribal honor by ignoring the patriarchal rules of this culture causes a hundredfold more harm than the success gained in these sweeps. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have had their houses tornadoed countless times in a vain attempt to find the ‘terrorists,’ and all of them are now supporters of the resistance."

Worth 1000's new photoshopping competition has a simple theme--Gary Larson cartoons made real. Too many are just as cartoony as the originals, but I like this one a lot. I laughed as hard as I did when I saw the original.



Oh, and while I'm at it, a message to all those cartoonists who think that coming up with any old bollocks is funny as long as the caption is done in that "Phil felt he had become too close to his cat" wording...It's over! It's so over! It was over the moment the first of you rip-off merchants tried it and it's a hundred times as over now!