Cartoon(s) of the Week – The Republicans and the Rich

Joel Pett in the Lexington Herald Reader:

Let’s keep (no) taxes easy for the Rich…

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Tony Auth in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Certainly, the Republicans are nuts to push the tax cuts for the Rich!

A Quote for Today (and for the past several years)

“Is there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people’s countries have anything to do with human liberation?

If such people can be found, let them answer a few simple questions about the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

How many Iraqis did we “liberate” from the companionship of their loved ones?

How many Iraqis did we “liberate” from dwelling in the houses and towns and the country of their birth?

How many Iraqis did we “liberate” from life on Earth?”

– Robert Naiman in Truthout

This from CNN:

clipped from afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com Ex-Pakistan spy chief: Afghanistan war ‘lost cause’ The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is a “lost cause,” said a former Pakistani intelligence chief, and the United States needs to negotiate peace with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. “You have to talk to him, and I’m sure it will work out very well,” Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview to air Sunday.  U.S. intelligence documents published last week by WikiLeaks cited Gul and implicated Pakistani intelligence as supporting al Qaeda. Gul has denied the allegations. “I’m quite a convenient scapegoat,” he said. “I don’t support any one faction in Afghanistan. I support the Afghan nation.” The career military officer, who supported the U.S.-backed Taliban resistance against Soviet occupation during the 1980s, called the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan “unjust” and said he sees legitimacy in the Afghan insurgency against Western forces. “This is a national resistance movement. It should be recognized as such,” he said.

Perhaps we should listen to this guy…