David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

In the last week, two of our most senior generals with command of our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have said they oppose the use of torture or so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques.  These same generals also confirm that the use of these techniques has damaged our international reputation while producing no actionable intelligence. General David Petraeus – the figure lauded by conservatives and the person chosen by Bush and Cheney to sell the surge to Congress – said the following to Fox News in regards to criticisms of President Obama for taking “enhanced interrogation techniques” off the table: Gen. Petraeus: "Well, actually what I would ask is, 'Does that not take away from our enemies a tool which again have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion?' When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized , so as we move forward I think it's important to again live ou...

Peace, U.S. style by ~ Latuff2 on deviant ART High Rez version for printing available here

Superman found dead in Iraq by ~Latuff2 on deviantART Carlos cracks me up with this one.

4000 by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART 4000 US soldiers  (officially) dead in GW Bush's pathological war for resources and a permanent foothold in the Middle East. 4000 is not nearly the monumental numbers of Iraqi dead but these deaths are just as needless.

Iraq Invasion 5 Years by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART

    Notice how the Capital Hill Gestapo hauls out the rest of Code Pink after the initial incident. I guess the committee didn't want their pleasant little social gathering to be disrupted by trivial things like the Iraq War.  

Our Simpleton-In-Chief, speaking to an adoring Fascist crowd at the cretinous Heritage Foundation made this ridiculous statement :   "When it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters ."   By watching the video of the event (if one can stomach "Old Smirky"), this inanity is greeted with thunderous applause. ( video available at the White House link )   But he babbled these responses to questions back in March 2002   Q. Mr. President, in your speeches now you rarely talk or mention Osama bin Laden. Why is that? Also, can you tell the American people if you have any more information, if you know if he is dead or alive? Final part -- deep in your heart, don't you truly believe that until you find out if he is dead or alive, you w...

Published on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 by The Hill by Karissa Marcum An Iraq war protester who got within inches of Condoleezza Rice at a hearing last week said she was shocked that tighter security did not prevent her from coming so close to the secretary of state.   If there had been more security at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, protester Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz said, she probably wouldn’t have approached Rice. “I anticipated that she would have been surrounded by SS [Secret Service] or by private security,” she said.   Photos from the hearing show Ali-Fairooz sticking her hands, which had been soaked in fake blood, in the face of a startled Rice. She then screamed that the blood “of millions of Iraqis” was on the hands of the administration.   Ali-Fairooz, a member of Code Pink who has been arrested four times in the last seven months, was charged with disorderly conduct, defacing of government property and assault on a federal officer. ...

BBC NEWS | Americas | US anti-war mother ends protest Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother who became a figurehead for the US anti-war movement, is abandoning her fight after growing disenchanted with the campaign. She has camped outside President Bush’s ranch since 2005, demanding a meeting over the death of her son in Iraq. But announcing the end of her campaign, she also hit out at Democrats and anti-war campaigners who put “personal egos above peace and human life” She said she had sacrificed her health, her marriage and her finances. In a letter on the Daily Kos website titled Good Riddance Attention Whore - a reference to the abuse she says she has suffered, Ms Sheehan said: “I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. “I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost." Cindy Sheehan became a “postergirl” for the US anti-war movement after she set up her protest camp outside the president’s ranch in Crawford, T...

From rcrentertainment on YouTube Meaning no offense to my Arab friends, this video is intended more as a satire on the current Republican scare ads. 9-11, Osama, terrorism and taxes are all key elements on their desperate desire to maintain power. On November 7th, let's end the Republican reign of lies and corruption! Boot the Repuglicans from Washington DC. They are the true "evil doers" and "haters of freedom" who threaten the fabric of the USA.

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America's cardboard army of Flat Daddies boosts families Paul Harris and Javier Espinoza Sunday October 8, 2006 The Observer It is one of the hardest things about being a military family. How to cope when a husband and father, or wife and mother, is posted abroad, especially to combat zones such as Iraq or Afghanistan. Now the United States army has come up with a bizarre solution: Flat Daddy and Flat Mommy. Many military units can provide families with a life-size cardboard cutout of their overseas warrior. The family can then take that figure to parties, put it in the passenger seat of their car, take it to bed or do whatever it is that families want to with a replica of their loved one. Named after Flat Stanley, a children's book character who was squashed flat, the cutouts have been a surprise hit since they were introduced. In Maine alone, the state's National Guard has given out more than 200 Flat Soldiers since January. The scheme began in North Dakota when one army ...

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

This is my most recent cartoon done as an entry in the Irancartoon "Military Occupation" exhibition. Some clued me into the following poem. It seems so appropriate. Ozymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed, And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822