Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 17, 2010
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Transcript:
Ray: Well, good luck with the base, Captain Ramaldi. Or what's left of it. Man: Thank you, my friend. Ray: I don't get it - don't you care about Iraq's future? Man: Iraq has been at war for 30 years. How am I to imagine her future? Ray: Good question... so what exactly does one do with a guard tower? Man: We're selling it to a prison.
We can also contact the moderators on Joe’s behalf; since he’s been fired, it shouldn’t hurt, maybe help. I always found Joe to be honest and often interesting (even in his ObviousMan cape), if a bit long-winded at times.
As to the other discussion above; what would you give to read the contents of the envelope Obama is said to have found on the desk in the Oval Office on his first day, addressed “To #44, From #43”?
I have to wonder if it might have been some of the answers (and updates) to the questions raised by Bill Moyers in 1987 about the Secret Government, ever since 1947.
Maybe it’s not too late to clean up that mess with a BIG dose of sunlight, before we have to invoke the second part of the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence, that most seditious of documents. That won’t be a pretty fight.