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Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008

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first of all, it is beyond irrelevant to criticize d. rees for lacking insight into the root causes of the u.s.'s failed policies in the "war on terror" -- in case it hasn't been advertised correctly, let me clarify: this is a book of political COMICS. rees aims his sharp and hilarious barbs at the personalities, ludicrous marketing, and horrific consequences of the bush-cheney-rumsfeld-wolfowitz-neocon warmongering of the "pre-emptive doctrine" type. his take is not the policy wonk's reasoned analysis, but the bewildered and outraged citizen's stupified i-have-to-laugh-or-else-i'd-cry variety. and lest we forget, these comics are clever, original, stylish in an anti-style kinda way, and, like the best comedy, both angry and funny at once because they get at truths that are difficult to approach or digest in conventional political discussion.

and if you dig these, be sure to check out his early work, particularly the absurdist hilarity of "my new filing technique is unstoppable" (which applies the over-the-top tropes of kung-fu flicks to ordinary paper-pushing office life -- like "Dilbert" if it were edgy, original and FUNNY.)

David Rees never holds back in this profane, bold, hilarious, and very knowledgeable series of comic strips drawn between 2001 and 2008. He skewers everyone and everything, though he focuses mostly on the Bush Administration and its disastrous domestic and foreign policies. Expect appearances by Voltron, Iraqi crybaby theater, and more as the clip-art office staff exchanges phone calls and discussons over donuts and coffee about the state of our messed-up world.
No holds barred!

I've had PART ONE of this collection since it was first published, and re-read it all the time, startlingly dismayed at how relevant it has remained since a few days after 9/11. I recently purchased the combined, updated version and it's all amazingly, heartbreakingly funny, poignant and revealing. David Rees can read inside our true hearts with shocking, hilarious clarity. Stupendously FUNNY.

This guy is pretty damn funny. I kept up with his comic on his website over the last five years, and I'm glad to have a hard copy now.

David Rees holds up an hallucinatory funhouse mirror to America at the height of the Bush Regime and its ignominious "War on Terror", attacks on the social safety net, failed response to Katrina, and overall post-Orwellian public relations debacles, in "Get Your War On". Using clip-art images of corporate drones yammering on the phone, Rees tips every military-executive-media sacred cow in sight. First self-published on what ex-president Bush called "tha Internets", Rees's biting, savage online strip deservedly won a huge online following (I first discovered it through a link from the Bartcop web site).

A must-have for collectors of political comix.

I was introduced to David Sedaris in a writing workshop. We read small parts of "Me Talk Pretty One Day" which I found hilarious. He is a gifted writer and I like his style. With a review of side splitting by the NY Times I expected lots of laughter but smiles were all this book did for me. Its a good read but I failed to find the humor anywhere near what I had hoped for.

not nearly as clever as people think. it gives no insight into HOW follied us policies come into being. for that i highly recommend "the shock doctrine" by naomi klein!