The Lord of the Wars.

Do you intend for this to be humorous or are you being serious?

I would expect big discussion.

Who was him? A former American President: Jimmy Carter. In Stockholm, this week, deadly serious, speaking live to the World's media

Yes. Unfortunately this title is ominously right and applies to a Presidency whose legitimacy is smeared by a very questionable election result under suspicion. Sorry, my Americam friends, these are just facts...

As an American, I find Bush to be a worrisome individual. Dominating the Middle East so we can keep oil prices down is a bad practice, in my opinion. Its going to explode in our face.

 

Im surprised more Americans dont feel the same. I guess its the appeal of paying $1.60 a gallon?

I guess all of the above commentor's have been living in the dark ages without any connection to the real world for the last year and several months if you think that this is about keeping the cost of fuel at $1.60 gallon. Bush has actually been the one to restore family values to the Oval Office and rid the world of extremist tyrants like Bin Laden and Hussein. Maybe you guy's would rather be living in Iraq.

I was under the impression that this was a forum for the dicussion of photography, not politics. Although it doesn't matter much with this image since there was no photographic skill necessary. I've said it before, this is photo.net and not photoshop.net.

Oh this will be popular!! Pity there's not a third rating bar - we could award you 6-6-6.

Someone please delete this soapbox political crap. This is a place for photographer's not to hear your lame political views........and the image sucks too!

 

...especially when they sound like a juvenile rant. Photo.net is about IMAGES not politics. Yours is a cartoon and laughable.

This pic maybe needs a little cropping - say from the very bottom all the way up to the top! :)

Blah blah blah. Bill gates already owns the world anyway. Don't forget, it wasn't George W who attacked New York (my home city). You want to bow down to terrorists and religious fanatics? Be my guest. Now take this political "rhetoric" (can't use the word I want to) and stuff it.

What is great about America is that you can express yourself, in any art form including digital... and when we as Americans pressure others to "conform", and not question our Gov., we begin to tread in dangerous waters. I"m not saying that I agree with all that was stated... Like any government however, America does have room for improvement.

 

 

 

For those of you who don't know who General Hawley is, he is a newly retired 4-star general who commanded Air Combat Command. These are good words and true. Speech from the former ACC commander (now retired and not restricted to being politically correct),

 

Gen. Hawley:

 

"Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too.

 

Here they are:

 

1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative." Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

 

The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the United States would look like one giant line to see "The Producers.

 

" 2) "Violence only leads to more violence." This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already:

Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence.

 

However, complete, fully thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not "reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead. D-E--Well, you get the idea.

 

3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us."

For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to

gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After

all,"

they reasoned, "you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible withsatellites. You have to use other humans.

 

When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break'93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella." Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years.

 

4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us." Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power.

 

Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds (I'm sorry, one of the "alleged hijackers," according to CNN-they stopped using the word "terrorist," you know), is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too.

 

In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. At least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take the Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade? Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell-they-want demonstrators) They all charged their black outfits and plane tickets on dad's credit card before driving to the airport in their SUV's.

 

5) "Any profiling is racial profiling." Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. I think we're all crushed. Please come back. With a cherry on top? Why don't they just change their names, anyway? It's happened in the past.

 

Think about it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the floor as a government official actually said, "That little old grandmother from Sioux City could be carrying something." Okay, how about this: No, she couldn't. It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is it even possible? What are the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball lotteries in a row? A thousand? A million?

 

And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we're all supposed to cry about it because he's an Arab? Didn't it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms incorrectly- -three times? And then left an Arab history book on his seat as he strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's please all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

 

SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."

 

Dick Hawley

It's only a PhotoPaint practice. If you want the face of Bart

Simpsons I can attempt it.

Imagine Margaret Thatcher's opinion next to Osama BinLaden's

opinion. Each head is a world.

Any way, I am impressed with the varied reactions. 1MEGA THANKS!

take it to www.politic.net

Excellent job Mr Ceasar.This war mongering is astounding by post cold war standards.Very scary indeed.Only humans are capable of hating our own kind and prepared to wipe ourselves out in an instant.Now is a perfect time to for an excelleration in the evolution process.

This is why I don't involve myself with politics. It's all based on personal opinions of the people in power anyways even though we're apparently in a democratic society (odd how we never get a say in what should constitute a PG-13 rating or an R rating for a movie or what percentage of a woman's ass can be seen on TV before it should be censored).

 

Anyway, in regards to whether this should be acceptable on Photo.net, I don't recall seeing any notices anywhere that state that we should only present pictures of flowers, puppies, landscapes and naked women. The reason I am involved in photography is partly to record the beauty of the planet Earth. However, I also hope to create an image once in a while that will make people sit back and think about the world we live in. I would personally prefer to do it with as little use of photoshop as possible but if I must use Photoshop to create the image then that is what I must do. I don't suppose the photographer in this case would have been able to get Bush to dress up in the costume in order to make this photo.

 

Think back to the most memorable photos you've ever seen in the last 100 years and I'm sure that the vast majority of the most striking images you can think of are all heavily politically themed. Why? Because they hit you on an emotional level and stay with you because of that.

 

My biggest complaint with the photo presented here is that it could have been much more convincing and look less photoshopped. But I think politically charged images are more than welcomed here.

 

See ya.