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War on terror

international military campaign that started after 11 September 2001
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Thewar on terror,officially theGlobal War on Terrorism(GWOT), is a globalcounterterrorismmilitary campaign initiated by theUnited Statesfollowing theSeptember 11 attacksand is also the most recentglobal conflictspanningmultiple wars.The main targets of the campaign weremilitant IslamistandSalafi jihadistarmed organisations such asal-Qaeda,theIslamic State,and their international affiliates, which were waging military insurgencies to overthrow governments of variousMuslim-majority countries.Other major targets included theBa'athist regimeinIraq,which was deposed during aninvasion in 2003,and various militant factions that fought during theensuing insurgency.

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During the 1990s, theMiddle Easthad witnessed a decade of relative calm, in part thanks to the détente betweenIranandSaudi Arabiabut also as a result ofPax Americana—post–Cold War,the United States was the unchallenged hegemon. The Saudi-Iran rapprochement had yielded more than anyone expected, including a security agreement. WhenSaudi Arabia’s defense ministervisited Tehran in May 1999,his Iranian counterpartdeclared: “The sky’s the limit for Iranian–Saudi Arabian relations and cooperation as the whole ofIslamic Iran’s military mightis in the service of our Saudi Muslim brothers.” PresidentBill Clintonwas basking in the glory of a unipolar world and America was prospering as the indispensable nation. Throughout hispresidencyand until his very last months in power, Clinton was working onpeace between Arabs and Israelis—succeeding only with theJordanians.Even though people likeNasrinEgypthad their lives upended,Iraqwas underUNembargo,andbombshad gone off in the Saudi kingdom, the decade carried some promise. It all came to an end on9/11.PresidentGeorge W. Bushwent to war against theTaliban,who were shelteringOsama bin Laden.After liberating Afghanistan, America declared a global war on terror, a frenzy of liberation. Bush decided to finish what his father had begun—he went afterSaddam.~Kim Ghattas
American militaryveterans of the “war on terror” are nearly 100 times more likely to develop some form ofcancerthan they are to bekilled in action.Whereas the war on terror claimed over 7,000 lives of U.S. military personnel, more than 500,000 active-duty soldiers have been diagnosed with cancer over the past two decades. Due to exposure to toxic chemicals found inordnance,burn pits,combat operationsin countries and regions with lax environmental restrictions, or some combination of all three, cancer or chronic illness stemming from deployments is endemic to veterans returning home over the past two decades. ~ Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
In 2002, as the United States moved towards war againstIraq,a final, huge war game testedAmerican forces’ ability to defeat an unnamedMiddle Easternpower. The American side had a clear advantage in advanced electronics,tanks,planesandwarships.The general in command of the much weaker ‘enemy’ forces, however, rang rings around his opponents. He keptradiosilence and usedmotorcyclesto deliver messages and so made it difficult for his opponent’s electronicsurveillanceto follow his moves. He had fleets ofsuicide bombersin speedboats knock out, on paper, sixteenAmerican warships.The Pentagonsuspended the game part-way through and rewrote the rules. The warships were miraculously resurrected and the ‘enemy’ general was ordered to turn off his air defences and reveal the location of key units. He chose to quit in disgust. His demonstration ofasymmetric war,where a weaker power can disrupt and challenge much stronger forces through unconventional means, was a warning of what was going to happen to coalition forces in bothAfghanistanand Iraq, where they were battered by hit and run attacks byguerrillaswho communicated through secure channels and who used cheapimprovised explosive devices,often shells or other containers packed with explosives and pieces of metal such as ordinary nails which can be set off with cheap, readily availabletechnologysuch as the remote controls for children’s toy cars or garage-door openers. Such devices have caused the majority of casualties for the occupying forces in both countries. ~Margaret MacMillan
  • The so called war against terrorism is in fact a war between twofanaticisms.One istheocratic,the otherpositivistandsecular.One is the fervent belief of a defensive minority, the other the unquestioned assumption of an amorphous, confident elite. One sets out to kill, the other plunders, leaves and lets die. One is strict and the other lax. One brooks no argument, the other 'communicates and tries to spin into every corner of the world. One claims the right to spill innocent blood, the other to sell the earth's entire water.
Outrageous to compare them.
  • John Berger,'Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance', Verso.
  • It made sense to getbin Laden;it made no sense to try and unifyAfghanistan.It made no sense in my view to engage in thinking that inIraqthey had anuclear weapon.
    • Joe Bidenas interviewed by Erin Burnett inErin Burnett OutFront,(5/8/2024)
  • For whose benefit these endless wars in a region that holds nothing vital to America, - saveoil,which theArabsmust sell us to survive -? Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between theWestandIslam?Answer: one nation, one leader, one party.Israel,Sharon,Likud.What theseneoconservativesseek is to conscript American blood to make the world safe for Israel. They want the peace of the sword imposed on Islam andAmerican soldiersto die if necessary to impose it.
    • Pat Buchanan,"Whose War? The Loudest Clique Behind the President's Policy"The American Conservative, (March 24, 2003)
  • We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy theOslo Accords.We charge them with deliberately damagingU.S. relationswith every state in the Arab world that defiesIsraelor supports thePalestinian people's right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over theIslamicand Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.
    • Pat Buchanan,"Whose War? The Loudest Clique Behind the President's Policy"The American Conservative, (March 24, 2003)
  • It's nonsense to talk about the war onIslamic terrorismas a clash of civilisations. The distinction is betweencivilisationandchaos.Whatever people may claim - and the desire to cut through thepolitical processescan be very powerful - there is never any justification forviolence.
    • Michael Burleigh,As quoted in “Michael Burleigh: The reluctant guru,” John Crace,The Guardian,March 10, 2008
  • What we have found inAfghanistanconfirms that, far from ending there, our war against terror is only beginning... tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large. These enemies view the entire world as a battlefield, and we must pursue them wherever they are. So long as training camps operate, so long as nations harborterrorists,freedomis at risk. And America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it....Our military has put theterror training campsof Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries. A terrorist underworld — including groups likeHamas,Hezbollah,Islamic Jihad,Jaish-i-Mohammed— operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities....But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will.
  • The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war withIslamic fascistswho will use any means to — to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.... The — this country is safer than it was prior to9/11.We've taken a lot of measures to protect the American people. But obviously we're still not completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America.
  • In order to win this war,we need to understand that the terrorists and extremists areopportunists.They will grab onto any cause to incitehatredand to justify the killing of innocent men, women and children.If we weren't inIraq,they would be using ourrelationship and friendship with Israelas a reason to recruit, or theCrusades,or cartoons as a reason to commit murder. They recruit based upon lies and excuses. And they murder because of their raw desire for power. They hope to impose their dominion over the broaderMiddle Eastand establish a radical Islamic empire where millions are ruled according totheir hateful ideology.We know this becauseal-Qaedahas told us. The terroristZawahiri,number two man in the al-Qaeda team, al-Qaeda network, he said, we'll proceed with several incremental goals. The first stage is to expel the Americans from Iraq; the second stage is to establish an Islamic authority, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of caliphate; the third stage, extend thejihadwave to secular countries neighboring Iraq; and the fourth stage, the clash with Israel. This is the words of the enemy. ThePresident of the United Statesand theCongressmust listen carefully to what the enemy says in order to be able to protect you. It makes sense for us to take their words seriously if our most important job is the security of the United States. Mister Zawahiri has laid out their plan. That's why they attacked us on September the 11th. That's why they fight us in Iraq today. And that is why they must be defeated.
  • There are some Arabs who think that theGermansdid the right thing by theJews.This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.
  • There is a big difference between fighting thecold warand fightingradical Islam.The rules have changed and we haven't.
  • We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.
  • In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.
  • You can't make war against terror.Terroris a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
  • To operate an intelligence network against theIslamist terroris terribly difficult because they don't have a central command and control center such as we would understand. Therefore you cannot penetrate at the top and find out what will happen on the ground.
  • Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be.
  • On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.
  • Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
  • We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security — and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
    Similarly, we must abandon the traditional approach of defining security in terms of boundaries — city walls, border patrols, racial and religious groupings.The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. In such a world, we must combat terrorism with an infectious security culture that crosses borders — an inclusive approach to security based on solidarity and the value of human life. In such a world, weapons of mass destruction have no place.
  • During the 1990s, theMiddle Easthad witnessed a decade of relative calm, in part thanks to the détente betweenIranandSaudi Arabiabut also as a result ofPax Americana—post–Cold War,the United States was the unchallenged hegemon. The Saudi-Iran rapprochement had yielded more than anyone expected, including a security agreement. WhenSaudi Arabia’s defense ministervisited Tehran in May 1999,his Iranian counterpartdeclared: “The sky’s the limit for Iranian–Saudi Arabian relations and cooperation as the whole ofIslamic Iran’s military mightis in the service of our Saudi Muslim brothers.” PresidentBill Clintonwas basking in the glory of a unipolar world and America was prospering as the indispensable nation. Throughout hispresidencyand until his very last months in power, Clinton was working onpeace between Arabs and Israelis—succeeding only with theJordanians.Even though people likeNasrinEgypthad their lives upended,Iraqwas underUNembargo,andbombshad gone off in the Saudi kingdom, the decade carried some promise. It all came to an end on9/11.PresidentGeorge W. Bushwent to war against theTaliban,who were shelteringOsama bin Laden.After liberating Afghanistan, America declared a global war on terror, a frenzy of liberation. Bush decided to finish what his father had begun—he went afterSaddam.
    • Kim Ghattas,Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East(2020)
  • Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from theOxford English Dictionary?
  • You know, terror is an idea. You don’t fight an idea with a conventional Army. To win a war on terror you have to win the hearts and minds of people from whom, from where the terrorists are operating from. If you win their hearts and mind and get them on your side, you’ll win the war. If those people start regarding the terrorists as freedom fighters, history has told us that you can’t win the war.
  • I’ll give you an example of (George Bush's) war on terror. He’s spent something like almost a trillion dollars. The estimates are that anything up to a million people have died and has he made the world a safer place? In my opinion he’s made the world a far more dangerous place. These are now nurseries for future terrorists.
  • Motivated by the near-complete lack ofinformationon post-9/11veterans, HunterSeven set out to uncover and make known as much data as possible, hoping to draw links between service and illness. Almost immediately, the foundation was flooded by veterans reaching out with their own stories of illness and the walls they had to breach in an effort to find care. Comprised of a small group of volunteers, all of whom work in the medical field, HunterSeven has undertaken extensive clinical research, using data to continue to draw lines between post-9/11 deployments and incidences of cancer and other deadly illnesses, as those connections are essential to ensure the government provides post-service care.
    One of the organization’s biggest research discoveries has highlighted the discrepancies in cancer rates between branches.Air Forceveterans who served on active duty are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer when compared not only to their age-adjusted civilian population but also to every other branch of service. Meanwhile,Marines,despite having the highest exposures to combat, had the lowest risk ratio for cancer diagnosis. Simoni said that as much as this data likely has something to do with exposure to work on flight lines, with jet fuels and the like, it is more likely a corollary to the average career span of an Air Force member being 12 to 16 years longer than that of a Marine. The more time in the service, the more years spent exposed to potentially toxic materials.
  • Conflicts do not arise out of the blue. The occur as a result of causes and conditions, many of which are within the antagonists’ control. This is whereleadershipis important. Terrorism cannot be overcome by the use of force because it does not address the underlying problems. In fact the use of force may not only fail to solve the problems, it may exacerbate them, and frequently leaves destruction and suffering in its wake.
  • In 2002, as the United States moved towards war againstIraq,a final, huge war game testedAmerican forces’ ability to defeat an unnamedMiddle Easternpower. The American side had a clear advantage in advanced electronics,tanks,planesandwarships.The general in command of the much weaker ‘enemy’ forces, however, rang rings around his opponents. He keptradiosilence and usedmotorcyclesto deliver messages and so made it difficult for his opponent’s electronicsurveillanceto follow his moves. He had fleets ofsuicide bombersin speedboats knock out, on paper, sixteenAmerican warships.The Pentagonsuspended the game part-way through and rewrote the rules. The warships were miraculously resurrected and the ‘enemy’ general was ordered to turn off his air defences and reveal the location of key units. He chose to quit in disgust. His demonstration ofasymmetric war,where a weaker power can disrupt and challenge much stronger forces through unconventional means, was a warning of what was going to happen to coalition forces in bothAfghanistanand Iraq, where they were battered by hit and run attacks byguerrillaswho communicated through secure channels and who used cheapimprovised explosive devices,often shells or other containers packed with explosives and pieces of metal such as ordinary nails which can be set off with cheap, readily availabletechnologysuch as the remote controls for children’s toy cars or garage-door openers. Such devices have caused the majority of casualties for the occupying forces in both countries.
  • Moreover, theoccupationslacked clear goals after the initial ones of toppling theTalibanorSaddam Hussein.The military found themselves taking on nation-building, something they were not trained for and for which they were not given clear directives. Before the invasion and occupation of Iraq in March 2003 there was only one meeting inWashington– that February, far too late to be helpful – when representatives from all the different departments involved, including State, Defense,Treasuryand theCIA,came together to discuss the post-war situation. Although theState Departmenthad spent a year preparing a massive study, the Defense Department andthe White Housemade it clear that they had no interest in its findings and did not want leading US Iraq experts anywhere near the planning for what happened after victory.War,as the coalition was to discover in Iraq, takes on its own momentum and is often easier to start than to stop.
  • In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" —exactly what, pray tell, is that?—to the mind-set ofInterpoltracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or theFBIstalking theMafia,or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
    • Bill Moyers,"The Meaning of Freedom", Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, 15 November 2006,Moyers on Democracy(2008), p. 78
  • As we do, we must also reaffirm that theUnited Statesis not—and never will be—at war with Islam. I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not againstIslam.Bin Ladenwas not aMuslimleader; he was mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed,al-Qaedahas slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
  • During my conversations with American andEuropeanleaders, I always spoke of the need to fight terrorism together, as a challenge on a global scale. We cannot resign ourselves to and accept this threat, cannot cut it into separate pieces using double standards. Our partners expressed agreement, but a little time passed and we ended up back where we started. First there was the military operation inIraq,then inLibya,which got pushed to the brink of falling apart. Why wasLibyapushed into this situation? Today it is a country in danger of breaking apart and has become a training ground for terrorists. Onlythe current Egyptian leadership's determination and wisdom savedthis key Arab countryfrom chaos and having extremists run rampant. InSyria,as in the past, the United States and its allies started directly financing and arming rebels and allowing them to fill their ranks withmercenariesfrom various countries. Let me ask where do these rebels get their money, arms and military specialists? Where does all this come from? How did the notoriousISILmanage to become such a powerful group, essentially a real armed force?
  • The first blow was struck by the events of9/11and, more significantly, by the way theUnited Statesin particular responded to this. Long cherishedcivil libertieswere struck down andmulticulturalismbegan to fray.Public spaceswere boarded up. The backlash of the “war on terror” profoundly shaped developments inEurope,too, though some countries held out better than others. Above all, these years began to pose the question of a failinginternational order,as it was conceived at the end of theCold War.Accustomed to projecting itself outward, the West was no subject to forces determined to break in.
    • Simon Reid-Henry,Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971-2017(2019), p. 7
  • We found that, contrary to what most Americans believe, the war on terror is not winding down—it has spread to more than 40 percent of the world’s countries. The war isn’t being waged by the military alone, which has spent $1.9 trillion fighting terrorism since 2001. TheState Departmenthas spent $127 billion in the last 17 years to train police, military and border patrol agents in many countries and to develop antiterrorism education programs, among other activities.
  • Since the start ofOperation Enduring Freedom(OEF) andOperation Iraqi Freedom(OIF), thesuiciderate formilitarypersonnel who have seencombathas increased to that of the general population (Kang & Bullman, 2008), and perhaps beyond. This alarming increase suggests that exposure to combat may be an important factor that may cause or at least contribute to later death by suicide. At the same time, military service appears to have some qualities that lower suicide risk in times of peace, with deaths by suicide during basic training being as low as 5 deaths for every 100,000 military recruits (Scoville, Gardner, & Potter, 2004). Thus, the relationship between military service and suicidal behavior appears to be quite complex, serving as a risk factor for some and a protective factor for others.
    Unfortunately,researchon the mechanisms through which military service influences suicide risk one way or the other is sparse. Employing newtheoreticalapproaches to suicide may shed light on the recent alarming elevation in suicide rate, and aid military health professionals in providing efficient, economical, and effective assessments and treatment for suicidality.
  • President Bushhas consistently argued thatIraqis the central front in the War on Terror.Al Qaedaleaders describe it the same way, which is why they are trying to use murder and mayhem to provoke sectarian violence, foment chaos, and create a safe haven for terror. Defeating al Qaeda has been central to our new strategy in Iraq from day one and will continue to be.
  • All actions have consequences, and all nations, like individuals are ultimately held accountable for their actions. I felt that waging war in Iraq would have the consequence of harming America, not making it safer, both in the short and long term.
    • Ann Wright,Peace and Policy,vol. 9,Journal of Toda Institute,www.toda.org.

“Americans could owe $6.5 trillion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and that's just the interest” (August 18, 2021)

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Rachel Layne,“Americans could owe $6.5 trillion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and that's just the interest”,CBS News,(August 18, 2021)

The ultimate cost of the nation's engagements inAfghanistanandIraq,on top of the incalculable personal toll on combatants and civilians, reflects a shift in how war has typically been financed. From theAmerican Civil Warthrough theKorean War,the U.S. government has mostly paid for its conflicts throughtaxesandwar bonds.But in the post-September 11 era,U.S. military spendinghas been financed almost entirely throughdebt
  • The ultimate cost of the nation's engagements inAfghanistanandIraq,on top of the incalculable personal toll on combatants and civilians, reflects a shift in how war has typically been financed. From theAmerican Civil Warthrough theKorean War,the U.S. government has mostly paid for its conflicts throughtaxesandwar bonds.But in the post-September 11 era,U.S. military spendinghas been financed almost entirely throughdebt.
  • Since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government has spent $2.2 trillion to finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to figures fromBrown University's Costs of War Project. Yet that sum — which amounts to roughly 10% of the the country's totalgross domestic product— only reflects upfront costs.
    Including the cost of interest on those wars will add an additional $2.1 trillion by 2030. And through 2050, the interest alone is forecast to top $6.5 trillion — even if war spending had theoretically stopped in 2019, according to research published last year from Heidi Peltier, director of the "20 Years of War" Project at Boston University's Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
    Such borrowing leads to larger total costs because interest must be paid as long as the debt is owed. That pushes the "true cost of war out to future generations," Peltier told CBS MoneyWatch.
    "What that does is shield the American public from the costs currently," she said. "So, Americans don't realize that they're paying for the cost, because their taxes are not increased. And they're not buying more [war] bonds, they're not in any way feeling the [financial] effects currently."
  • Previous wars were largely paid for by taxes. For example, PresidentHarry Trumantemporarily raised the top tax rate on the richest Americans to 92% to help pay for the Korean War. And PresidentLyndon Johnsontemporarily raised the top rate to 77% to fund theVietnam War.
    At the outset of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq under President George W. Bush, however,Congress cut taxes by roughly 8% for the wealthiest Americans.Since then, war costs haven't been included in the regular defense budget, experts have noted.
    "In every previous major war, the war budget was integrated into the regular defense budget after the initial period. This meant that Congress and the Pentagon had to make trade-offs within the defense budget," Linda Bilmes, a lecturer in public policy and finance atHarvard's Kennedy School said told Congress in 2017. "By contrast, the post-9/11 wars have been funded mostly by supplemental appropriations."
  • Another hidden cost: military personnel. The U.S. has committed to pay thehealth care,disability, burial and other costs for about 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, which are projected to amount to more than $2 trillion. Those costs will peak after 2048, according to theAssociated Press.

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  • Star Trek: Enterprisewas the firstTrekseries to appear after 9/11, and reflected these new realities. The prequel series crew stumbled as they confronted all manner of unfamiliar civilizations, and did not even get along with theVulcansvery well. Then, in season three a 9/11-style attack onEarthforcedStarfleetto launch an expedition to go after the shadowyXindi,who had launched the strike. Making the Xindi potentially scary was the consortium nature of their alliance, including humanoid, arboreal, insectoid and aquatic species. Just asal Qaedawas an international terrorist consortium, the Xindi was more dangerous together than separately — a fact the Enterprise crew use to pry away some of the species from the organization.
  • Enterprise, fatally, was not a popular series, even though it lasted four seasons. Just as it was winding down came a much more robustSFresponse to the post-9/11 world in the form of the rebootedBattlestar Galactica.Shedding the disco era look of the original series, this was a much grittier, murky series.
    The Cylons were not relentlessrobots,butgenetically engineeredand emotional humanoids with their ownreligion(monotheistsvs the terranpolytheists). The series addressed myriad topics raised by the Global War on Terror and theIraq War:torture of suspected terrorists, profiling of terrorist-prone groups, curbs on democratic freedoms, enhanced executive powers for national security imperatives, and discrimination based on security fears. The season arc containing the Cylon occupation of the terran New Caprica colony was a parable of the Iraq War, involving common elements of Bush’s conflict: insurgency, foreign occupation/suppression, collaboration with occupiers, and even suicide bombers.
  • Hueysqueals to the Feds’ terrorism hotline -
Huey:Why do you keep hanging up on me? I’m telling you thetruth!
TheCIAtrainedOsama Bin Ladenin using terrorism against thesovietsduring theReagan-Bushadministration they gave theAfghanistanrebels countless amounts of covert funding!
FBI:Don’t you have better things to be doing?
Huey:Better than fightingterrorism?Heck no! We’re atwar!!
  • Huey helps the FBI wage war on terrorism
Huey:Wait, before you hang up. I have one more important tip!
G.W. Bushgave theTalibangovernment $4.3 million this May!This May!! How much of thatmoneywill be spent onweaponrythat will be used againstU.S. soldiers?
FBI:Wow – I didn’t know that…
Huey:He lives at1600 Pennsylvania– hey, are you writing this down? And I suggest bringingreallytight handcuffs.
  • Editor’s Note
    Despite the tremendous reader response to “The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon,” we have decided to bring back “The Boondocks” on a probationary basis. However, should material be deemed inappropriate, we are prepared to bring back “Flagee and Ribbon” at a moment’s notice.
    United We Stand.
Huey:Mr. Petto, how come nobody is talking about the ways thatBush’s big-oilcompadres will benefit from this “war on terrorism”?
Ribbon:Hey, flagee, can we sing “the star-spangled banner”again?
Flagee:Of course, Ribbon. It’s our national anthem!

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