George Armstrong Custer Bush

[donhakman]

[BostonTeaParty04]

1. Excellent graphic!

Here's an idea:

Can you do one similar to the ones they did of Hoover... with Hoovervilles. Bushvilles!!!

[donhakman]

2. I don't know Hoovervilles

[nodictators]

3. Great cartoon, great analogy

Now, if I remember my history, Custer, a murderous bastard, ended up being scalped at the Little Big Horn.

Of course, Mussolini ended up hanging from a lamp post.

And Hitler, the monster, ended up as stinking ashes in the charred remains of his bunker (or so they say).

Did Bu$h study his history?

[donhakman]

4. Ask the people who wrote his term papers

[Sequoia]

5. Actually, he had cut his hair before that Battle of the Little Bighorn

and was too short to scalp. His ears were gouged because "he did not listen". He smoked the peacepipe with the Crow and Lakota and even had a son by one of the Crow women. He was warned and ordered by his commander NOT to go into that camp with his men. He even split up his men. He wanted all the glory so he could be elected president. He was a vile creature and tourist to this day go crying on that battlefield because he died. He shot himself, the coward.

We all know that Bush didn't listen (there are No WMDs in Iraq), won't listen (looking under tables; "Those WMDs must be somewhere"), and is incapable of hearing the world telling him to STOP ("The world is a safer place because of me")

[displacedtexan]

6. Custer was last in his West Point class.

Figures.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Bush is last in the realm of things Positive.

Cannot manage the Nations Budget

Cannot Promote Peace

Cannot understand his PDBs

Unable to comprehend Logic

A very poor understanding of Science

and unable to say "Sorry for the Woes onto this Nation I have caused"

[necso]

8. A foul slander on a brave man.

Custer was recklessly brave, * is just reckless and far from brave.

Custer had a string of victories in the Civil War, including personally leading his and other troopers in repeated, reckless cavalry charges stopping J.E.B. Stuart's finest in their tracks at Gettysburg and preventing them from falling on the Union rear. Custer also played a crucial role in stopping Lee's retreat from Richmond at the end of the war, bringing that old lion to bay. * has only a string of dismal failures in everything that he has ever touched.

Custer never would have sat behind a desk sending other men to their deaths, as ready as he might have been to lead them there. Custer would never have cowered in a bunker, when there was glory to be won.

Custer was no child of privilege, handed things because of his name and connections, he earned his commissions through battlefield deeds.

As for Custer's supposed suicide, here are the words of Rain-in-the-Face:

"Presently some of the soldiers remounted and fled along the ridge toward Reno's position; but they were followed by our warriors, like hundreds of blackbirds after a hawk. A larger body remained together at the upper end of a little ravine, and fought bravely until they were cut to pieces. I had always thought that white men were cowards, but I had a great respect for them after this day."

"It is generally said that a young man with nothing but a war staff in his hand broke through the column and knocked down the leader very early in the fight. We supposed him to be the leader, because he stood up in full view, swinging his big knife over his head, and talking loud. Some one unknown afterwards shot the chief, and he was probably killed also; for if not, he would have told of the deed, and called others to witness it. So it is that no one knows who killed the Long-Haired Chief ."

Custer was many things, but he was never a coward.