Somebody please tell me what is funny or - more importantly - true about this cartoon.
Is this really the view of Dan Wasserman and by extension the paper that employs him - the Boston Globe? Do Wasserman and the Globe really believe that, in his heart, President George W. Bush is a torture-master of medieval proportions? Do they truly think that only international agreements and court decisions stand between him and the barbarous flaying of prisoners?
The cartoon is presumably referencing a recent Supreme Court decision that ruled against the administration's use of military tribunals for the trial of Gitmo detainees. No torture was even alleged, much less proved. The only thing being tortured is logic - by the Globe.
At the end of the day, just what is the Globe's point, other than to express contempt and hatred for the sitting President of the United States?
Note: Click here for my take on an earlier Wasserman cartoon, depicting Ann Coulter as a desecrator of 9-11 victim graves.
