Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

Probably the best anti-war site yet: Masturbate for Peace; slogans include:

Hairy palms, not cluster bombs
War’s not kind, beat yourself blind
Cream your khakis, not Iraqis.
Peace is the issue. Use a tissue.
Down with war, stroke some more
Get peace fever, rub your beaver!
War is heinous, thumb your anus
You Can’t Beat Off with Nuclear Arms

Saw this quote from Sky News on the forums at urban75 and thought it was too good not to mention:
“Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton,” UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said in The Commons yesterday.
“He’s either never been to Southampton, or he’s never been to Umm Qasr” says a British Squaddie patrolling Umm [...]

Continuing on from yesterday, I’ve found some more great political cartoons, this time by David Horsey.
There’s lots of satirical news at Spin On This, including this gem:
HARDCORE WARNOGRAPHY: IRAQ LATEST
Geoff Hoon: “Good morning. I just love it when a group of men in uniform drop their payload in front of my face. Oh baby that’s [...]

Just got back from the Stop the War march in London, absolutely knackered. Fantastic turnout, especially for just 4 days notice — organisers estimate 500,000 people (police estimate: a couple of dozen, and some of them were school kids who should have been at home doing their homework). Lovely weather, great atmosphere. Will post more, [...]

“The United States finds the present Iranian regime’s intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims.”

The above quote comes from a 1984 US condemnation of chemical weapons [...]

I watched a late-night political discussion show on BBC1 last Thursday, and obviously it was dominated by the US-Iraq insanity. All the usual, depressing, blah, blah, blah. Then suddenly up popped Terry Jones — ex-Monty Python — with a brilliant and hilarious short film about his neighbours. I’ve just found that a transcript is also [...]

These found their way to my inbox, and I thought they were funny enough to post here:

(I particularly like the first one)

“What democracy looks like.” — Tim Robbins

Yesterday millions of people around the globe protested against the war, in 603 cities as diverse as Moscow, Kiev, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lyon, Marseilles, Sofia, Brussels, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Thessaloniki, Warsaw, Bern, Paris, Mostar and Copenhagen. As the Independent put it, a groundswell of dissent encircles the globe. Some of the [...]