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June 18, 2006
If You Want a Happy Father's Day, Don't Read Prickly City. Ever.
I really hope someone gets Scott Stantis a calendar. Because if he had one he would have realized that today is Father's Day and he could have spared us this pretentious "comic" strip about how conservatives are right about Iraq and progressives all want to "cut and run."
You see in Stantis's mind Bush has planted the flower of democracy and freedom and snuggly puppies in the desert known as Iraq. Winslow realizes that it doesn't make much sense to plant a flower in the sand. However he goes insane over the idea, screaming "cut and run," something NO Democrat I've seen do yet that's how Republicans paint anyone who opposes them - crazy in the head. Then of course through the power of Carmen's smugness and sense of superiority the flower blooms.
One problem: Stantis leaves something out. After Winslow says the flower won't grow, he should have inserted a panel that says "OVER THREE YEARS LATER - AND PROBABLY MORE THAN FIVE YEARS SINCE PRESIDENT BUSH HIMSELF HAS SAID THAT IT WILL BE UP TO FUTURE PRESIDENTS TO WATER THIS FLOWER."
Once again I'll reference Jack Murtha. Six months ago he advocated redeploying our troops to the region so the Iraqis could work it out. And now he asks again - who thinks things will be better six months from now? A year? The answer seems obvious, especially after al-Zarqawi is killed and bombs have gone off all over Iraq. And al-Qaeda isn't even the biggest problem there - we've got two warring factions doing everything they can to stay in power, and the ones we seemingly want to win are allies with Iran, the next country the neo-cons want to invade, who just made a pact with Syria in case we do.
In other words, Bush and Co. keep piling sand and rocks and torture and killing innocent civilians on top of that little seed and somehow think that's going to help it grow.
So for all of you fathers out there, Happy Father's Day. I pray that your son or daughter isn't one of the ones sacrificing his or her life so George W. Bush can "grow democracy" around the world while he celebrates today with his daughters who are of age to serve in the military but never will.
Comments
Carmen gets credit for the metaphorical successful war while Winslow gets blamed for its literal disastrous equivalent?
Well, that's a terrific photo on top, anyway.
Posted by: Marc Heiden at June 18, 2006 12:47 PM
It's funny. It's not just "Prickly City" that didn't do a father's day comic, OTHER comics didn't do a Father's Day comic too!
The only ones I can find are "For Better or For Worse", "Luann" and "Off the Mark".
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at June 18, 2006 11:30 PM
