Comics and Editorial Cartoons: Doonesbury on Yahoo! News
In my opinion this comic should be clipped and placed on the front of every refrigerator in every kitchen in the home of every citizen of the United States of America. In the event you don't care to follow the link (or it becomes broken, or removed )it's the Sunday morning issue of the Doonesbury cartoon. In the first panel, Mark, is addressing his audience of his radio talk show.
"Of course water-boarding wasn't the only technique we borrowed from the inquisition...
Second panel"...just the one tv news correspondents cared to try."
Third panel, "And teddy Roosevelt, perhaps mindful that both Washington and Lincoln forbade torture, ordered the court-martial of a U.S. general accused of water-boarding."
Fourth panel, "Later after WWII the U.S. prosecuted Japanese interrogators for water-boarding. There was no debate about it being a war crime"
Fifth panel"Why then, do half of all Americans now believe torture can be justified in certain circumstances? How could ANY circumstances be more dire than Word War II, when 60 million people perished?"
Sixth panel "This is the legacy of eight years of fear and lawlessness!This is the damage a small band of amoral leaders has done in stripping a nation of it's own traditions of decency!
Seventh Panel, "OOPs ... Sorry. That was kind of a long introduction. You still there, Secretary Rice?"
Eighth panel, Mark"Hello? Madam Secretary?" From out of view "Hey Mark? Just FYI It took two years to book her"
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