I can't believe I was able to post before the guy who always complains about Dan "phoning it in"!

My lucky day, I guess.

Charlie

it's hard for that guy to type one-handed...

And corn chips

Don't ever forget the original pretext for going to war! Bush and his cronies claimed that Saddam Hussein absolutely, positively had weapons of mass destruction, ajnd links to Al Queida. Bush asserted that we must attack Iraq just in case they might be planning to attack us first. "The lesson of September 11th is that we mustn't wait to be attacked." There was no solid evidence that Hussein as planning to attack us, but Bush said that we must not wait for evidence! The "smoking gun" might come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Bush was frustrated that the inspectors never found any WMDs, and had them pulled out of Iraq. Then he claimed that Saddam Hussein refused to let them in, and used that brazen lie as a big part of his pretext for going to war. When no weapons were found, the Bush Administration decided to change their whole pretext for going to war: this time, our troops were there to spread democracy. We were supposed to have forgotten all about the initial reason for going in. However, the second reason has proven to be as much a crock of shit as the first reason. Hardcore Bush supporters will never admit they were wrong about anything, however.

Is just phoning it in by now, obviously.

Wouldn't he be emailing it in? Or maybe texting it in? Or maybe he's IM'ing it in. C'mon you fucking luddite retards, get with the modern age. Or kill yourselves and save us all the time.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf taller than a tree,

Toki Wartooth not a bumblebee,

William Murderface Murderface Murderface,

Pickles the Drummer doodily doo ding dong doodily doodily doo,

Nathan Explosion.

...that certainly clears it up for me, thanks.

Any chance of TT admitting that the Israel lobby pushed us into the war? Or how it's currently pushing for one in Iran?

Lefties hate the NRA, but they never say anything about, you know, that other lobby. That, in itself, is funnier than these cartoons.

Best post ever on Salon. I can't wait 'til next season.

And maybe the 'phoning it in' guy finally got laid. That or he killed himself because Dan wasn't responding to his love letters.

Maybe he forgot to pay his Phoning It In bill...

Gee, I wonder if Dan Perkins has any chance of acknowledging how wrong he was about Gore in all those strips? It would be nice to see doggie and penguin say what Daickhead Dan was thinking when he wrongly busted on Gore when those of us reading current events saw exactly who Bush was and what he was going to do.

Did he really? Know where I can see some of this?

For a (bad) trip, use archive.org to read Michael Moore's website in the days leading up to the 2000 election -- the guy was doing everything in his power to make it look like voting for Gore was equal to voting for Bush, and was still trying to get people to dump Al for Ralph.

"Phoning it in" is just an expression. Relax.

Maybe the phoning-it-in guy is switching to Vonage. Then he'll accuse TT of voning it in.

As for admitting they were wrong? Hell, I know one guy who still swears that trucks full of WMDs were spotted by satellites crossing into Syria in the hours before the invasion, and that this is well-documented fact the "liberal media" just refused to report. He also argues that "we don't know there aren't WMDs buried that we just haven't found yet". Admit he was wrong about the entire war? He can't even admit what was admitted years ago - that the *justifications* for the war were wrong.

You can't expect the insane to suddenly become lucid just because their fantasies are exposed completely, rather than partially.

Great TMW strip.

Oh... the heady days of "Democracy, whiskey, sexy" when anecdotal nonsense from some Iraqi "man on the street" was elevated by "journalists" to validate the entire NeoCon's public version of their plan for the ME.

Of course hawks have moved on to blame war opposition for defeat claiming the left emasculated them, to stoke resentment and culture wars, and fuel the next next war of aggression to destabilize a region.

Divide and conquer. What else is new.

PS - This phoning it in thing sounds totally inane + insane from the comments it generates.

To the person who asked, all of TMW (except, perhaps, for some very early strips) is archived at ThisModernWorld.com and more recently at WorkingForChange.com.

Too true to be funny. Sad really.

What if the administration had been right about the WMDs, AND all the intelligence about other threats had been correct?

Iraq would STILL be a disaster.

Bush has admitted that the war was justified by the use of false information. Blair, though forced to admit there were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam posed no threat to the west still maintains he was right to believe the information he told his aides to put in the Iraq dossier in place of that provided by the weapons inspectors and the military.

So come on America, admit that our guy is stupider than your guy.

We're talking about the president who reportedly asked the president of Brazil if there were any black people in Brazil! The guy who didn't know that the country his daddy had bombed in 1991 had Shiite AND Sunni Moslems! The guy who described his summer reading as "Three Shakespeares." The guy who shouted back at the voice in his earpiece during a televised presidential candidates debate. The guy who fell off of a Segway because he forgot to switch it on.

And this is just the stuff we know about!

Complaining sycophant? Not even close.

How about making an absurd joke at the expense of an absurd person?