Truth in Comics circa 1952

Boing Boing posts a copy of a 1952 comic called T-Man that does as good a job as any I’ve seen of clearly explaining the Bush-Cheney doctrine on Iran.  You’ll get a kick out of some of the dialogue in which our hero calls someone "bub" and "chum", and you’ll notice a distinctly non-PC moment in the panel where the hero throw a pig at the Iranian and says "Here rag-head, take this little fellow home and barbecue him for breakfast!"

What really makes this seem such an accurate representation of the Bush/Cheney stance is that the hero, a U.S. Treasury agent, is breaking up a meeting between diplomats, those effetes that Cheney in particular seems to despise, who are signing an exclusive oil rights treaty between the US, Britain and Iran.  T Man’s response when confronted by the diplomats is "…Why should we split oil when we can bring in a few troops and take it all!"


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