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STFU if you don't know WTF you're talking about, you senile old fart.

(BTW, THX 4 crushing fascism way back when. That was GR8! KTHXBAI)

Dadgum hippies with their dadgum trees.

Good thing they didn't see that Time cover about the battle over dildos.

(Serolf? little help?)

Japan didn't invade Indonesia for the oil. They wanted cheap batik prints?

I hate it when staged propaganda become fodder for photoshop propaganda. Fucking bastards.

Not pictured: Dick Cheney remotely napalming the giant carrot from the comfort of his orbiting Halliburton pleasuredome.

WWII reenactments should have loaded guns.

Are these the same tough-ass old motherfuckers who complain about kids today getting offended over every little thing? The same ones who would only let blacks and Japanese (and -- ahem -- that's not what they called them) fight in segregated units? Yeah, that's what I thought.

What, there weren't any dadgum trees on Iwo Jima? No, because you blew them up with dadgum bombs.

Wait until they see Larry Flynt's photoshop of Chesty Puller ass raping Dubya....

Germany actually wanted Romania for the Dracula souvenirs. Duce wanted Libya for the dried fruits?

Mortal sin huh I agree, uninspired cutesy headlines accompanied by photo a mediocre Photoshop really do put you put on the fast track to hell, just ask those poor bastards over at the New York Times.

Gotta love how rednecks always "threaten"/secretly yearn to shove something into the offending party's rectum.

@officejob9000: Do you even know the English language? I mean, that was waaayyyyy off (BTW you know where I work and live. Please do not kill me.)

Do you really even have an office job, 9000?

@weazel:He was there for the outrageous fashions from the House of Qaddafi.

(actually, I didn't mean to be so disrespectful in my first comment. I think the un-ironic use of 'dadgum' in a declarative sentence is absolutely precious.)

@shortsshortsshorts: Oh shorts hows about you make yet another ass rape joke and then we can call it a day.

Mr. Dick : the phallic projection is a dadgum tree up the rear of someone "who wants that and thinks it's gonna cure anything." so, at least, the fantasy rectal rape involves consent and prospective health benefits. it's never too late to come out, even if it involves tree-penis butt rape, not that there's anything wrong with that.

@officejob9000: Jesus man. I bet your interoffice memos read like you went off your medication.

How does Time magazine feel about the American flag? Barack and Al Gore better apologize for this flagrant blasphemy against all that is true and just in our nation.

How do the'y retire a flagpin? Would there be the traditional ceremonial burn? And where is this separation of
church and state in this carrotgate?

Why, oh why are we giving any attention to right wing hacks at the "Business & Media Institute"

God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.

Yes, be careful out there, TIME editors. Those Iwo Jima veterans might bludgeon you with their oxygen tanks, or run you down with their Rascals. And if you see one of them pull out a white plastic bag, for god's sakes run!

Also: will this image be featured on the Asian edition, too?

@StrangelyBrown: SRSLY.

You gonna git gummed to death.

IRA HAYES 08

I have this image of a group of John McCains calling for my head. *shivers*

None of them seem to have rolling papers?

If the hippies want to take over the government, what are they going to replace it with? What do they know about darkness?

If the Paultards want to take over the government, what are they going to replace it with? What do they know about the real moral burden of the billionaire elites and their ideological footsoldiers and technocratic servants, manipulating world events? People need to start paying fucking attention to more than their own self-interests, starting from the grassroots.

If I was an Iwo Jima survivor, I'd be a lot more pissed I was sent to fight and die for virtually no purpose. This place had no strategic value, was hardly used as an air base, never became anything of value during the war. Cost 20,000 Japanese dead, nearly 30,000 US casualties (almost 7,000 dead). All for a picture and a monument.

I'm also getting tired of everything being equated as a war on something: war on global warming, war on poverty, war on drugs, etc, etc. This is a terrible, idiotic metaphor, retire it already.

Dad gum lasts longer than the outrage behind this cover.

"Of course it is a play on the famous Iwo Jima photo/statue from World War II, which was a fake to begin with."

--The photo on the cover o' Time is unstaged. Now, there's another photo that has really squared-off composition and is shitty-looking. That one made the front page of Stars and Stripes or some bullshit propeganda paper.

And WTF is it with "war on" shit? I've got clippings of hundreds of "war on" headlines, ranging from actual war to prices, drugs, poverty, the right, the left, on and on and on. Total lack of creativity. Bastards are lazy is all.

It's okay.

We'll honor their wishes and not try to stop global warming.

We'll all be dead and the cockroaches will long remember the sacrifices the Marines made in the south Pacific.

Those men dies for Tony the Tiger.

d*

I like the goatsAmerica cover from '04 better.
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These guys are silly to get so upset (even if it is a stupid comparison) but what bothers me more is that the original picture wasn't actually staged! Rosenthal did stage a "gung-ho" picture, but he caught this one on the fly. Sad that your readers will now believe it was a fake.

No, no, no. It's all a silly misunderstanding. The dadgum tree is a genus in the flexilifolia family. Similar to Sweetgum, yet more bitter. It's ridged for your sodomizing pleasure, and is purported to have curative properties.

Moral equivalent of war anyone? 30 years ago? We wouldn't be IN this mess if we had listened to Jimmah?

I was amused to find out what a suribachi is, a ceramic bowl used for grinding culinary herbs. My housemate has one. Marines posing on top of giant kitchen utensils is funny all by itself. I have an uncle who was there, he never talked about it in my hearing, but he was always a real bastard, not particularly avuncular.

I think we're being hard on the old fucks. After all, without them we'd never even have the unsustainable standard of living that is slowly dooming us all. And, without old fucks, who will keep us reminded of how good things were before all the races started drinking from the same water fountains?

@bjarmson: No, taking Iwo Jima saved far more B-29 crews' lives than died on the island. Something like 15,000 B-29 crewmen wouldn't have made it back to the Marianas, and most would have died, if they couldn't land at Iwo Jima. Not to mention the ones who would have been shot down by Iwo-based fighter planes.

You're probably thinking of Pelilieu, which was a total waste of lives.

I met a Marine Iwo vet about 10 years ago. Dude crushed out his filterless cigarettte with his fingertips before tossing it, without apparently noticing he'd done it. Hardcore.

@bjarmson: For real? Wars on miscellaneous are AWESOME! Remember when we declared war on drugs and now you can't buy drugs anymore? This war on terror is KICKAZZ! Too bad that war on drugs was so successful cuz I could really use some fucking marijuana right now.

@SuperUnison: "I think were being hard on the old fucks."

You just made my day.

The Iwo Jima photo was a fake? Way to promote an urban legend, Wonkette! Now go after NASA and their whacky story about a "moon-landing."
Joe Rosenthal had to defend his photo for more than 50 years.
The misunderstanding began because Rosenthal shot two photos; one of the flag-raising and a later one with everyone posed around the flag. When an editor asked over the phone if the shot was staged, he said yes, thinking he was asking about the group shot. The flag-raising happened so fast, he wasn't sure he got it on film. A cameraman also filmed the flag-raising, which proved it wasn't staged, but the misunderstanding continues to this day.

@Lazy Media: This is a myth and PR to justify the unnecessary slaughter, do your homework. Few of the B-29 landings on Iwo were emergency ones, most were for minor technical gliches. In the months before the battle only a few B-29s were lost to fighters on Iwo, B-29s were never forced to detour around Iwo due to Japanese interceptors (which because of the severe oil shortage and lack of trained pilots were ineffective even over Japan). The Japanese early warning system wasnot affected, just shifted to another small island that was never invaded. This B-29 rationale was only promoted after the battle ended to justify the high price paid for a virtually worthless piece of real estate.

That said, let's cut the old vets some slack. They did things most of us can't even imagine doing and often laid their lives on the line doing their part to win the bloodiest war in history. Later generations owe them a debt of gratitude and a little respect for what their generation was forced to do.