Five years after the invasion of Iraq, with hundreds of thousands dead, I can’t help but think of the original assessment by the brilliant Bush-Cheney team, that the operation would be a cakewalk. After all their belly-aching about imminent doom, one really wonders why they should at the same time predict that we would be greeted with flowers. It’s almost as if some terrible misinterpretation of reality took place, which brings me to the amusing comic above. I found this book in San Francisco a few years ago, Komikaze, by Turkish artist Erdil Yasaroglu. You really should check out his amazing website! He draws with a naturalistic sarcasm, reminiscent of Gary Larson, and ought be translated into English. So, here is my contribution, the above strip translates roughly as:

“Waiter, this is scandalous! There is a fly crapping on my cake!”

“But let the fly perform, sir, it’s our exotic dancer!”