Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 17, 2011

Good God! Th-that’s the Red Rascal’s music!!!

The old copier service adage:

Fast, cheap, accurate- pick any two.

mrbribery, re your comment yesterday; of course Duke has ‘rescued’ beforehand see http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1989/07/20/ The full story arc starts here: http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1989/07/12/ Enjoy

Mike

Ah, so Duke can just marry His Excellency!

I believe they like to call it, “Dirty deeds done, dirt cheap”.

Where’s Otto Skorzeny when you need him.

Desert one? Was that where Jimmy sent in the Marines to save our hostages and they ran out of fuel? I bet that isn’t in my son’s history book.

The best track record in this area belongs to the Israelis. Maybe put the Prez through a quickie religious conversion and call Tel Aviv?

Lew, I doubt Iran-Contra would be found in your son’s history book either. Remember that? A lot of Ronnie’s more reverent devotees don’t (no joke).

Personally, I vote for either the Mission Impossible group or the A Team. The only problem is that Mr. T would probably end up killing His Excellency for being such a jerk.

Someone PLEASE Look up Desert One.

Confusion in ground handling due to an unexpected severe dust storm caused a collision between two aircraft on the ground that led to a catastrophic fire. Since some other aircraft had to turn back earlier due to mechanical difficulties, they were below mission minimums and had to abort.

Orion

Not Carter’s finest hour. Caving in to political pressure, he allowed 3 branches of the service to participate, with no one person in charge. Huge mistake on a mission so dangerous and complicated. The ‘team” had only been working together for a short time. As the Israelis would tell you, this needs to be excuted by an experienced, highly synchronized team who knows exactly what the others will do in even unplanned eventualities. Since this incident, the military has put together various specialized teams for just such a purpose.

Don’t ever mind the facts. Stick exclusively to your pet ideology. It saves time and energy and keeps your pesky enemies at bay.

Prez-for-life WILL be rescued, despite inept Jeff,only to be tried convicted and thrown in prison (solitary 8 X 10 cell) for the rest of his filthy life.

Back to the strip, Overkill is coming in? Nice way to tie in corrupt war profiteers and corrupt lobbyists.

@rayannina: Well played.

exact words, pop

Radish, you forgot to mention in your detailed analysis the mysterious black helicopters that appeared from the UFO and kept broadcasting Bee-Gees tunes at high amplitude over all the rescue channels, disrupting communications. Dick Cheney denied all involvement, but it’s known that he was a diehard Bee-Gee’s groupie.

Jack vs Eric Prince, Desert one vs WMDs, a single “mission” vs a single war(well two) filled with screwups, now we have the turmoil in all the “Arab” countries AIPAC and others have been fomenting- Jack Overkill is no longer a caricature.

Dick Cheney would eat Overkill, bones and all. Now there’s the ultimate survivor.

^No, Cheney would just get his sixth deferment and then go hide in his bunker

( I can’t believe somepeople actually think that sniveling coward is a tough guy. )

The biggest mistake with Desert One was to have Navy personnel rather than Marines flying the helicopters.

Right you are Radish, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot more Iran/Contra Weasels than that. Here’s just a few.

Couldn’t find the Bee Gees card Nemesys. What’s their number? Neocon denier.

Happy President’s Day weekend everybody.

Too bad His Excellency’s name is not Forrest. Then we could say - - - - -

RUN, FORREST, RUN!!!

You may be thinking of these Top Tier Weasels, Radish.

I see the son is shopping at Barney’s now….