[Peace-discuss] WP cartoon

[C. G. Estabrook]

[As Ricky mentioned at Sunday's meeting, some of the only
serious commentary in the press seems to be in cartoons. --CGE]

   Editor & Publisher Online - June 21, 2005
   Cartoonist Tom Toles Appears to Take 
   Swipe at 'Wash Post' Editorial Page
   By E&P Staff

NEW YORK Widely-honored syndicated cartoonist Tom Toles
appeared to take a swipe at his home editorial page--at The
Washington Post--today with a cartoon
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/toles.html?name=Toles&date=20050621>
aimed at newspapers that have pooh-poohed the so-called
Downing Street memos.

Last week, a widely-publicized Post editorial declared that it
was "obvious" that the leaked 2002 British documents, which to
many reveal with near-certainty that the Bush administration
was determined to go to war in Iraq, "add not a single fact to
what was previously known about the administration's prewar
deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was
publicly known in July 2002."

Critics of the paper have charged that this is not true, and
that the Post, among other newspapers, was hardly trumpeting
this view three years ago. One of the memos also notes that
intelligence to back an invasion would be "fixed" by the Bush
administration.

Today, Toles, in the Post itself, joins the critics with a
cartoon that depicts a newspaper correction that suggests the
The Downing Street memos may appear "to be at odds with pretty
much everything you remember seeing and hearing in the runup
to the Iraq war." But the correction advises readers: "Your
memory is in error. We regret your mistake."

Then a tiny sketch of Toles at his drawing board, which always
appears in the lower right corner with a final comment, adds:
"The first draft of the rewrite of history."

Alongside the correction is a "Garage Sales" classified ad,
which reads: "Prewar Intel, fixed."
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