1952 Comic Eerily Predicts Bush/Cheny Iran Policy

[kpete]

Cartoonist and all-around seeker of unusual truths, Jay Kinney, says:

Attached is a page from T-Man comics #3 from 1952. I just happened upon it by chance and - Holy Smokes! - all was revealed. We can now grasp the origins of the Bush administration's foreign policy! It was all there in T-Man #3, 55 years ago! Perhaps Cheney read this comic in his youth and just bided his time until he was in a position to actualize it in real life.


http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/14/1952_comic_predicts_.html

[radfringe]

1. k&r

[dipsydoodle]

2. Current events are just

kinda blowback.

Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and the Shah's
coup d'état in 1953
http://www.angelfire.com/home/iran/1953coup.html

So much for spreading democracy.x(

You did well finding that. Thanks.

[independentpiney]

3. k&r it's eerie how prescient it is

I think you're right- Cheney & the rest must have loved T-Man comics.

[losthills]

4. Mindblowing...

[Tom Joad]

5. Mohammad Mossadegh, US/British coup topples secular, progressive regime. 1953

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html

1953


The US has fought tooth and nail against all progressive, secular forces in the middle east that support Democracy.
Despicable!

[BornagainDUer]

8. Good information thanks for he effort.

[morningglory]

6. I thought it would be Pogo: We have met the enemy, and he is us! n/t

[Terri S]

7. wow

Scary how identical that mindset is today! Any bets on how many freepers were big T-man fans? yikes!

[eggman67]

9. To be fair to the comic.

I have this issue. This page of the comic depicts a Soviet Agent impersonating T-Man Trask in order to discredit the US. The point of view expressed in the comic is not intended to represent US policy or public opinion.

[Hissyspit]

10. So in other words, the totalitarian policy of the Soviet Union in the 1950s is the source

of the policies of the Bush/Cheney administration today?

[eggman67]

11. Exactly

I just want to give credit where credit is due.