Back in 1990, I picked up “Friendly Dictators Trading Cards“, a box of portraits and facts about 36 tyrants who were counted as America’s friends. The art was by comics genius Bill Sienkiewicz, and the scathing text was by Dennis Bernstein and Laura Sydell.
Lately, in a fad originated by the US Central Command (!), the focus seems to be on playing cards. The copies of the original Iraqi Most Wanted deck are everywhere, spamming my inbox and even showing up on the shelves of my local supermarket. Then come the knockoffs, like the Axis of Weasels set from the morons at NewsMax, a set lampooning the Governor of Alabama for his tax stance, and hand-made cards portraying the Texas Democrats who thwarted Tom Delay’s re-districting hopes by heading across state lines to Oklahoma.
And now, (I hope before the fad has crested and crashed against the Pet Rocks shore), there’s a set from OUR side: The War Profiteers Card Deck. This deck, available for charitable purchase or as a downloadable pdf, exposes
[via Pax Nortona]
