• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      I was there. There were a lot of antiwar marches.

      The New York City alternative paper, The Village Voice ran two cartoons I remember.

      One was a cover. Bush Jr. as Mickey Mouse in the sorcerer’s apprentice outfit. The big broom looked like Saddam and the little ones looked like bin-Ladn.

      The other was Bin-Ladn and Saddam cast in a ‘buddy cop’ movie where they have to learn to get along to take down the bad guys.

      It wasn’t that Bush was carried away by an unstoppable tide demanding war. Bush manufactured the ‘evidence’ and his people sold it hard.

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        2 months ago

        If you have not seen it, you should watch the movie Wag the Dog, and check the release date on it after doing so. Phenomenal movie about government spin doctors.

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          You should read the original book.

          In the book they specifically name Bush Sr. and Saddam. But the author says that the person he was most afraid of offending was the Hollywood producer…

          It was a good movie, too.