Q: From what country could this cartoon have possible emerged?

A: You get three guesses. And they should all be "Germany."


It's "Bush's Best Friends,' by Rainer Hachfeld! Via the always surprisinger, often perplexinger international cartoonists @ Cagle Cartoons.

I find it sort of odd how only the non-U.S. media is properly emphasizing that Paul Wolfowitz is yet another boneheaded Bush appointee, and that perhaps his flagrant abuses of power aren't so unexpected.

But I always found it very odd that hardly anyone in this country complained when Donald Rumsfeld's bloodlusty number two was inexplicably appointed head of an organization that wields billions of dollars in funds for the benefit of developing nations.

It must have been announced on a Friday afternoon or something. At the time, the U.S. media barely seemed to notice the appointment, let alone question its logic (at least, that's how I remember it. I would confirm that, but I'm still too sick to be expected to do anything challenging or responsible).