[mamelukesabre]

Actually, I think the trigger was pulled a split second BEFORE this picture was snapped. That's how I remember it anyway. The bullet is already in the poor guys head. That's why he's making that odd face.

[dogbyte12]

Big post... but let me show a few examples of Ramirez' work to show where this guy is coming from.

[Steel Wolf]

Actually, I think the trigger was pulled a split second BEFORE this picture was snapped. That's how I remember it anyway. The bullet is already in the poor guys head. That's why he's making that odd face.

I saw the film during a Law of Land Warfare/Geneva Conventions class a while back. I could be wrong, but as I recall he made the face when the gun came level to his head, and held it until he got ventilated a second or two later.

I'm not entirely sure what Ramirez's take is on this, because the VC in question was a combatant operating out of uniform. He had been captured while engaging in combat, and was, IAW said rules of warfare, executed. If I put on an Iraqi uniform a few months back and was captured, I wouldn't merit POW status. Same goes if I took my uniform off and tried to blend in.

So politics, in the case of this cartoon, is implied to be justified in its actions of capping W as an illegal combatant. (Selected not elected? He lied on WMD?)

Take your pick, I don't buy it. The deep meaning of this cartoon only references the superficial meaning of the photograph.