9/11/2003: French editorial cartoon

This was published a few weeks ago when Mars was at its closest approach. The caption translated reads:

Rumsfeld: The Martians are getting closer and they are supposed to have weapons of mass destruction. Bush: I'll give them a last warning.

Elsewhere on the Cellar we are talking about the NYT editorial which claims that Bush has squandered the good will that the world felt towards the US on 9/11. Regardless of how you feel about that, the cartoon might be evidence of it in some senses.

I found it on Merde in France, which blogs the US/France relationship with a skeptical eye.

Re: 9/11/2003: French editorial cartoon

Well, hrm... I dunno, his take seems to be that France is slowly dying and that its overwillingness to make enemies with the US is part of that.

Actually if it were in English, I could see that cartoon appearing in a number of U.S. publications.

Is that sorta like "BSD is dying"? Now France is dying! I guess now I've heard it all...

Yes everyone should bown down to us, because we have a "flag"


(if you've seen Eddie Izzard then you get the joke)

"You say 'erbs', and we say 'herbs'... because there's a fucking H in it."

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