Matt Bors has been traveling in Afghanistan, along with fellow cartoonists Ted Rall and Steven Cloud, unembedded and unprotected, drawing what he sees and hears. Here’s the first cartoon in the series but there are six more (all from Afghanistan) now; click here (or on the comic) to follow along: © Matt Bors
On the other side, there are reports that the leaked documents reveal the names, and sometimes the location, of Afghanis who worked as informants for the US military. If this is true, then lives will have been put in danger by these leaks.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), currently touring Afghanistan, when asked about Michael Steele’s recent comments about this being “Obama’s War”: This is not President Obama’s war. This is America’s war. … I want to separate myself from that statement. And the good news is Michael Steele is backtracking so fast, he’s going to be in Kabul […]
Yesterday, Republican Party chairman Michael Steele tried to blame the war in Afghanistan on Obama: This was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. It was one of those, one of those areas of the total board of foreign policy … that […]
“Former Gov. Sarah Palin has been very busy. She’s been campaigning for select Republicans, including John McCain, who’s in the middle of a tough Senate race in Arizona. How does he introduce her? ‘And now, the young woman who cost me the presidency, Sarah Palin!”‘ – Jimmy Kimmel “You know who is out campaigning now […]
© Matt Bors Despite the fact that I find this comic pretty funny, I have to admit that it does make me feel better that Obama was actually listening to people and doing research when coming to the decision about what to do in Afghanistan. Could you imagine the same thing from the previous occupant? […]
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