Alan Moore (comic writer genius) writes about America and the war in Iraq

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I got this article off of Arthurmag.com. It's a great free magazine, and I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone. Alan Moore is the genius behind Watchmen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, and many other fantastic books. Here's the article:

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Here’s a joke: What do you call an eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no arms, surviving family members, or unblackened skin below his waist? I don’t know. I was shouting at the TV and I didn’t catch his name. Don’t worry if you don’t get it. We’ll no doubt be telling it again in another dozen years or so. And still not getting it.

It’s the repetition that grinds us down. All this Groundhog Day shit. The history classes of the twenty-second century, assuming that we can be bothered to hold one, will hate us for doing everything twice and messing up their grades. “So which Bush was Gulf War II again? Was that the wimp or the chimp?”

The British have been running this bayonet-porn loop for more than a millennium, since the 1090s and the first Crusades, waged to safeguard holy Christian sites (which, being also Muslim sacred places, were not actually threatened in the first place) rather than for Freedom and Democracy, although strangely enough the invading forces were even then led by Franks.

Back then, those territories blocked England’s access to the Silk Road, but that wasn’t why we were going to war. It was those Christian monuments we were concerned about. Richard the Lionheart addresses his men with that Tony Blair weasel-in-a-slaughterhouse look in his eyes: “Look, okay, I know there’s always a conspiracy theory, but I can honestly say this is not about silk.”

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1. oh yeah

Does anybody else read Alan Moore? I was hoping that people wouldn't see Alan Moore COMIC genius and think this was going to be funny (although it has its moments).

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2. ok, i'll do this the correct way:

Here's the link to the website that has the full article:

Arthur magazine

It's in the current issue. Unfortunately, the issue is 12 MB in size, and it's nearly impossible to find unless you live in a cool liberal city (unlike me).

Art Spiegelman also has a comic about 9-11 and America.

Go to the web site, check out the mag, then get back here and post!

[Merlin]

3. Interesting magazine. New Yorker wannabe for the Wired set.

They sure make it tough to read online. Open a 12MB PDF, then scroll through it to find the article.

Hint. It's on pg 14.

But it's so wordy, pick it up at pg 18 or pg 20.

Moore has some talent, but he'd be better off writing 1/10th the words and putting 10 times more effort into what he does write.

Then again, maybe he's paid by the word.

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4. I liked the part

I liked where he writes about Saddams WMDs.

"How do we know Saddam has sarin gas, anthrax, etc? Because Donald Rumsfeld was nice enough to hold onto the receipts!" :D

[ninedwarfs]

5. He's great

Love his comics!

[Khephra]

6. If you're a Moore fan

Keep your eyes out because his first actual novel is going to be published in a month or so.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

7. Thanks

Thanks for the link. (I also enjoy Mr. Moore's works as well.) It's too bad this computer is a little on the slow side. I've heard of similiaries between this war and the Crusaides before, but Moore does make some interesting similiarities.
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Yaoi Huntress Earth