So predictable. Just another librul anti-capitalist rant. To paraphrase a senator at the Blackwater hearings "You're here today because some people can't stand the idea that you're making a profit."

Look: When one group of people wears brown loincloths and another group wears yellow loincloths, war is just going to be an inevitable fact of life. Might as well cash in.

The biggest agitators for liberating the Holy Land from the Saracens were arms merchants.

Military-industrial complex, anyone?

Looks like it's time to bring back an old epithet: the Merchants of Death. Your suffering makes them rich! Your taxes are their profit! Start another war NOW - it's good for bidness.

This here's a cartoon!

It reminds me of some of the great Don Martin or Al Jaffee stuff form the 70's... (which is high praise).

Keep it rolling Mr. Bolling.

Cynical much?

might have something to say about that...

The first group must be Israel. Or maybe the rock dealer is the Jew.

This is Salon, so....

The first group must be Israel. Or maybe the rock dealer is the Jew.

--Anonymous

It says an awful lot more about you than anyone else.

Is angry white racist Republicans who want to oppress the other group and eat their babies. The rock dealer is psychochristian private contractors who provide baby eating cutlery. The third group is of course the Arabs.

The third group is of course the Arabs.

--Anonymous

Is there something wrong with your monitor or your mind?

Wars are, without exception caused by the love of money. All of the other "causes" (religion, religion, and religion) are mere smoke screens.

The evil people are the Turks the people in the valley are the Armenians and the rock sellers are the editorial staff at Salon.com who haven't covered this story yet? In what could be the biggest logistical blow to the war in Iraq forcing us to leave against the will of the administration and nary a peep from the crumpet munchers here.

I get the impression that some Salon comics act as a barometer to how kooky-political the climate really is these days! Just hoping it's enough of an outlet. I envision a chemist dipping a sheet of copper into a tank and seeing how much the acid eats off of it, and what color it comes out after.

Odd the posting about the Armenian/Turks thing.

Also odd Pres. Bush suggests that calling a duck "a duck" in that with a resolution at this time is, well, bad timing. No...no it's not...odd, that is.

Must be hard to work in a munition's factory wondering why a sudden bump in production mysteriously comes along, when things are relatively calm.

This reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where aliens figured out that humanity was best defeated by allowing them to destroy themselves. "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" it was called. The difference of course being that we don't need some malevolent aliens to instigate us to violence and genocide. We're quite capable of riling ourselves up on our own. One after the other, one after the other. . . .

Is that when the Cossacks came over the hill to kill women and rape the cattle, the pithy irony of having to buy a gun to defend myself was so delicious I preferred to get murdered instead. Kiss me, I'm postmodern.

Been following you for years (creepy, I know), from Crazy Morty to God-Man to Super-Fun Comix, and you rock more than is immediately believable, but I've gotta say you're being simplistic here. The first motivation for war wasn't profit, it was blood and hegemony -- same as it is now. Blood blood blood blood blood! Hegemony hegenomy hegenomy hegenomy hegenomy! You know that. Your boy Louis wouldn't exist if you didn't know that. Step up, man. Tell it like it is. Don't be like that easy-answer Tom Tomorrow hack -- you're better and you always have been!

The salesman is the intellectually superior person, because he understands the words, 'for sale' and 'buy now', and 'clubs' and 'rocks'. All anyone else can say is "Ruh".

it shows cavemen, which, as anyone who reads the bible knows, never existed. Just ask the right wingers on here, they'll tell you.