Post by brittanyk88 on Sept 27, 2008 0:10:57 GMT -5
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, 9/25/08
This cartoon depicts a car representing the US Iraq Policy with President Bush and Vice President Cheney as its passengers. The car is in a dark alley directly facing a brick wall in a place that seems somewhat decrepit. The area seems to be a deplorable poor area of a city with evidence of urban decay all around and some mysterious figures lingering about in the shadows of the background. Bush and Cheney both seem to think that they aren't a all lost when they obviously are.
This cartoon is a perfect expression of the US Policies in Iraq. The war in Iraq has become a pointless war. Some however believe the war does have a point: oil. Our troops occupy Iraq and other Middle Eastern regions, and we are basically being a middle-man between two different radical parties that also occupy the Middle East. We are trying to fight a "war on terror" however by populating one country we are doing nothing to stop a terrorist organization that operates in many countries around the world. So as the cartoon suggests, our Iraq policies are lost and they don't have much of a hope of finding the right path.
