Secondly, what happened to the animated version? It seems like the results are about the same as they were a few months ago. It would be a shame if this project got shelved, the voices of the characters were almost exactly the same ones in my head…

Q: How many neo-cons does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Neo-cons don’t bother with light bulbs, they declare a war on “darkness” and set the house on fire.

It’s best not to glide over the fact that the wrong invasion of Iraq has killed many hundreds of thousands more innocent people than every terrorist action on the planet in at least the last generation. The wrong war has also dissolved hundreds of billions of dollars that could have vastly addressed the many inequities — equal access to safe drinking water, for instance — that creates the desperation that fuels terrorist activities. To pretend as though this were a mistake within an otherwise sound world view is exactly what GYWO makes fun of as absurd and hateful.

Also, if recent evidence and expert opinion are to be given any regard, the U.S. military model is exactly the wrong structure to address terrorism. The catastrophe terrorism of September 11, 2001, could not have been avoided with more tanks and bombers and submarines. The far more pervasive terrorism of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and policies of deprivation also can’t be addressed with military hardware.

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in which Mr. Rees’ commentary hones in, with laserlike precision, on motherfucking Kung-Fu Snoopy in the motherfucking house and the timing of ambulance drivers.

I love this book and your description of reading morphing into white-hot rage. Mr. Rees captured the truth when Bush and Company sold lies. I read the complete series on-line but wanted the book so I can show later generations the terror that a bad administration can bring to the American people; all in our name! While I am at it: Fuck You George Bush!

“He was right to strengthen the military”
By plunging them into two different wars, overextending their stays, not giving them the right equipment, underfunding them, employing torture so the people who captured them felt they were morally justified in doing the same?

“holds those who harbor, train and support terrorists as responsible as the terrorists themselves”
Unless those people happen to be doing business with him and his Daddy, or uncle Dick. Or unless those people are his Daddy and uncle Dick.

“He was right to take the war on terror abroad instead of waiting until dangers fully materialize.”
If only he had done that when presented with a PDB saying Bin Laden determined to attack US, or the one describing how they would fly aircraft into building. (I’m no truther; never blame on malice what you can blame on incompetence or simply not giving a shit.)

“new tools to monitor the communications of terrorists”
Which have failed to capture anyone, but have allowed innocent people surveilled because they disagreed with the administration?

“kill & capture their operators”
Remember the day Bush brought Osama to justice? How we all cheered and cheered! The Bush Administration had finally made us all safe forever!!!

I really just want to welcome Big Ed, representative from Republican World to BoingBoing and, dare I say, reality? This is right up there with how you partially blamed the financial crisis on Freddie and Fanny.

Does anyone else think that this title is implying that the WoT is finished?

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That is crystal ball pre-emption; it’s also fucking insane. It’s like the old Smith Act, which jailed friends of mine for — get this — conspiring to someday conspire to violently overthrow the state! Wow. Reads like heavy-handed satire, doesn’t it? Guilty of agreeing to maybe get together at a later date to plan a revolution!

The Bush Doctrine is just as lunatic. Witness Iraq. A totally unnecessary war waged on false assumptions. Paranoids, lunatics, ignoroids and morans ran the Ship of State onto the rocks. And here we sit…

So it goes.