Riding on the Iconoclastic Coattails of the Most Famous WWII Photo

Replace the water pipes in this image with the burning twin towers. Put AK-47s in the background. Give put hooded heads on these guys to make them look like masked terrorists.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7423473@N08/479660813/

http://img53.exs.cx/img53/6539/DeathOfOswald-real.jpg
Put a Star of David arm badge on Oswald.

They could have picked something to do with Arbor Day (a proAmerican enviromentalist holiday) instead.
http://www.arborday.org/arborday/history.cfm

My first thought on this was that they were trying to suggest that the greenies, who wouldn’t defend their family from being murdered by jihadis were somehow heroes on the same moral plane as the men who died at Iowa Jima to free the world from Japanese tyranny.

It didn’t really dawn on me that the greatest insult of all, and the one most revealing about the true intentions of environmentalists was to replace the flag with a tree.

I think it would be wrong to tie the enviromental movement to the anti-war “movement”. There not the same players. Isn’t John McCain one of the “greenies”?

I would suggest not using the Mt. Suribachi image, there is simply no way of tastefully doing it, even to parody. Perhaps one of the ones bbartlog suggests…

Throw Al Gore into a volcano to appease the green’s false ga ga god Gaia, Gotcha, Steala yo Casha.

Jeffrey Nihart

Caption:

Caliphate Supreme Commander for the Muslim State Army Bin Laden puts bored and idle ex US Marines to work planting trees in Ouja outside Tikrit for the Saddam Memorial Mosque. Grand opening is slated for late 2012″.

BTW, Fit Fit… my suggested caption lays out my first impression exactly. I’m not against clean air. Nor am I an environmental un-realist.

Translated more clearly, our Marines do not exist to plant trees. Nor do I think it requires the herculean effort of our Marines to “save the planet” by planting trees. Equating this task with war for survival is highly misleading.

And, to order such specialists to this task is only an insult, done only under the most extraordinary of circumstance.

I can think of no excuse for this photoshop job except a serious number of braincells being out of commission in the ad producer.

Bbartlog… I believe iconoclastic is an appropriate word here. Not for “religion” but for a revered institution or belief.

As a Former Marine I can say that I thrill at the thought of this image from Iwo representing American Victory. I also had three Uncles on the island that all made it home, though two with a lot of holes.

Those Marines represnt us all in Victory, I am ok with that. I just don’t get the tree at all.

If we can all love Jarheads planting Old Glory in the Ayatolla’s @ss then we have to deal with others using the image as well. Springfield if you still have that I would love to see it!

What happened to the Template?

Change the pic to the Marines holding Al Gore upside down and planting his head in the ground! I don’t think there would be many Marines objecting to that.

TIME’s cover is a disgrace. It’s so terribly disrespectful to the thousands who died in the Battle of Iwo Jima and all who have sacrificed in service to our country.

Regarding the contest:

An idea–

You know when Khrushchev had his shoe-banging fit at the UN?

Gore could be Khrushchev and he could be about to smash an incandescent light bulb.

Another idea–

Put a tree lapel pin on Barack Obama.

FF: You said “I think it would be wrong to tie the enviromental movement to the anti-war “movement”. ”

Have you ever been to an anti-war rally? A good number of the people there are holding up some commiee/greenie sign.

Are you aware that groups like the Sierra Club opposed the Iraq war?

Admit you were wrong and “MoveOn.”

I’ll give it my best shot.