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"Uh, it was not a photo, it was an 8mm video tape (movie camera) taken of this NVC getting his head blown off. In the actual video tape this guy drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes with blood pouring out of his head like a garden hose."

NBC aired the tape (without warning) and it took an hour to console my teenaged daughter who was very young while the Vietnam war was in progress.

This cartoon elicits the same initial reaction in many who have posted here. Others don't find it objectionable at all. If this many interpretations can result from observation by people I consider to be of above average intelligence, the cartoonist made a bad choice in sending it to press - no matter how he intended it.

Another take I had was:

Iraq = Vietnam (quagmire, guerilla warfare, etc.)

Today is the 10th anniversary of the departure of Vincent Foster from the Clinton administration

Another take I had was: Iraq = Vietnam (quagmire, guerilla warfare, etc.)

Well, in Iraq today, it is a guerilla war against us. This is clear. As far as quagmire goes, only time will tell.

"Uh, it was not a photo, it was an 8mm video tape (movie camera) taken of this NVC getting his head blown off. In the actual video tape this guy drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes with blood pouring out of his head like a garden hose."

NBC aired the tape (without warning) and it took an hour to console my teenaged daughter who was very young while the Vietnam war was in progress.

This cartoon elicits the same initial reaction in many who have posted here...
Precisely.

The original photograph and video are MUCH too powerful to be trivialized in this manner.

SHAME on the cartoonist, whatever his intentions.

This cartoon is WRONG.
Not illegal, but wrong, nevertheless.