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Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist

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As much as people like to talk about politics, there's nothing like a satyrical comic. One frame, maybe 2 and this image can evoke such responses. I've shown Khalil's work to my family, coworkers and friends. The reactions I got were from pure love and admiration, all the way to confusion and anger. That's how you know someone is doing their job and Khalil does his job in this book. Well.

Award-winning cartoonist Khalil Bendib, whose work is seen in over 1,700 newspapers across North America, presents Mission Accomplished, a collection of his sharp-edged political cartoons lampooning greed, hypocrisy, arrogance, moral ineptitude, and worse, both in America and abroad. An American Muslim, Khalil Bendib does not shy away from tackling issues ranging from terrorism to globalization to militarism, genocide, underfunded infrastructure at home, and much more. Especially harsh criticism is leveled at the ruthless excesses of Zionism, America's ill-planned Iraq occupation and the chaos in its wake, and corporate welfare heaped upon thieving institutions such as Haliburton. Most cartoons are in black-and-white; a few are in color. One particularly telling cartoon shows an empty gasoline pump labeled "Uncle Sam Gas, $2.85 per Gallon" and cars lined up for miles to fuel at a gasoline pump labeled "Death to America Osama Gas Only, $2 a Gallon". At once both sidesplittingly funny and bitterly insightful into the paradox of human greed that keeps America stymied in failure, Mission Accomplished is highly recommended.

Mr. Bendib expresses in his cartoons what so many of us feel and can scarcely articulate. This book is a scathing critique of militarism, the establishment, and everything conscientious people despise. And it's entertaining to boot! This is a must-have classic.

Bendib takes no prisoners, and no one gets out alive. Especially tough on the Bush Administration and Israel, he's not beyond taking Islamic terrorists to task, either.

I can't understand why his cartoons aren't better known by now, except that his viewpoints deviate from the mainstream. But they're certainly viewpoints worth laughing at and with.

My only complaint is that often, in coming down hard on Israel, his cartoons can border on anti-semitic (that is, anti-Jewish).

Bendib's wit and humor say more in one image and a few words than most of us could in a full dissertation. Stunning!