I was reading the opinion column in the local paper, again. Someone was complaining about a cartoon by this Fitz guy. He says it's unfair...

Here's the cartoon...
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/opinion/33836.php

And here's his letter...

David Fitzsimmons has produced some egregious work in his time but the cartoon he created in the Aug. 14 paper topped them all. I understand that most good political cartoons are unfair. It is the nature of the beast.

But there are so many ways that this cartoon is vile and disgusting. We did not go to war in Iraq to get its oil. The president is attacked with the charge that we are "going it alone." Yet Fitzsimmons would have us go into the Sudan alone to stop the horrific killing. Why isn't that the United Nations' job? If they have any duty at all it would seem that this is it.

It is a very sad thing when people have let themselves hate the president so much that they lose all sense of propriety. Fitzsimmons has gone way over the line.

Anyone that thinks the US military is in Iraq for some reason other than imperialistic reasons needs to pull their head out of the sand. The first justification for going into Iraq was weapons of mass destruction. When that didn't pan out, al Qaeda was in cahoots with Saddam, or so the administration wanted us, and the world, to believe. It is now obvious that neither was a good basis for going into Iraq, and that our administration knew this in advance.

But to be fair, we didn't go into Iraq specifically for oil. We did, however, go there because there is oil there to be had. The administration is posturing that we are 'taking on the burden' of rebuilding Iraq. How is this being done? Why, American companies that specialize in this sort of thing are over there right now. How is it being paid for? A good portion is with Iraqi oil!! If you honestly think that we would be there if there were no oil, again, a head needs to come out of the sand.

I'm not sure if Fitzsimmons is saying we are going it alone. The point of the cartoon isn't that we should be in Sudan. The point is that we aren't. There are atrocities happening all over the world, seems there are atrocities happening all the time in some part of the world. The United States cannot right all the wrongs of the world, but it seems the only time we do anything about wrongs in the world is when there is something in it for us. To be fair, this is only human nature. But another point of the cartoon is that the administration should stop trying to kid us, or anyone, that there are honorable motives. Otherwise, we would be in Sudan, or anywhere oppression exists.