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It's a decent cartoon. Poltical cartoons are illustrations or comic strips containing a political or social message. This does that. It uses a simple metaphore to communicate the reality of the current situation with our military. We are facing a problem. Soldiers are being terribly injured, mamed, and killed, all the while people like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld explain how well the war is going. This cartoon tries to simplify that problem so that even those who can only glance at a paper can understand. In this "callous depiction", Tom Toles is trying to get people interested in the welfare of our soldiers. And this is a diservice to the readers? Not at all. This is only a diservice to those who benifit from sheilding the American people from the reality of the Second Gulf War.
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