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You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want Paperback – May 1, 2003

by Micah Ian Wright (Author), Howard Zinn (Introduction), Kurt Vonnegut (Foreword),

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Stunning, hilarious, and politically incendiary, this full-color poster book reworks classic American World War I and II propaganda into commentaries on war, peace, and patriotism for the post-September 11 era. The forty one-sided posters make fun of war mentality, the Bush White House, Homeland Security, the War on Terror, Ashcroft, the 2000 Presidential election, the military-industrial complex, and much more. Forty posters of yesteryear such as Uncle Sam's "I Want You," and "Loose Lips Sink Ships" are reworked with new messages of peace and protest.

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Seven Stories Press
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May 1, 2003
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6.01 x 0.27 x 8.9 inches
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1583225846
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Former Army Ranger turned antiwar comic book artist Wright had what he calls a moment of clarity after participating in the U.S.'s 1989 invasion of Panama. Feeling that media coverage was blatantly pro-war, but that the post-invasion results for Panama were far from positive, he offers this as a (belated) warning against war on Iraq. Reworking American propaganda posters from WWI and WWII, Wright reveals his satiric take on current events: one poster reads, "Millions of troops are on the move...All To Protect Your Oil Supply! Is your SUV really worth their lives?" In another, a girl sitting in her father's lap asks, "Daddy, why don't YOU or any of your friends from ENRON have to go to war?" And many are messages from the Orwellian-sounding "Ministry of Homeland Security": The Statue of Liberty points to the onlooker and commands, "You! Stop Asking Questions! You're Either With U.S. or You're With The TERRORISTS!" The antiwar contingent will read these and weep, rather than laugh. 40 pages of color illus.
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“Reworking American propaganda posters from WWI and WWII, Wright reveals his satiric take on current events: one poster reads, 'Millions of troops are on the move … All To Protect Your Oil Supply! Is your SUV really worth their lives?' In another, a girl sitting in her father's lap asks, "Daddy, why don't YOU or any of your friends from ENRON have to go to war?" And many are messages from the Orwellian-sounding 'Ministry of Homeland Security': The Statue of Liberty points to the onlooker and commands, 'You! Stop Asking Questions! You're Either With U.S. or You're With The TERRORISTS!' The antiwar contingent will read these and weep, rather than laugh.” –Publishers Weekly

“Micah Ian Wright's book of "remixed" war posters, You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want! manages to be both comic and chilling as it skewers just about every military-minded institution of the Bush administration.” –AlterNet

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press (May 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583225846
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583225844
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.01 x 0.27 x 8.9 inches

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Micah Wright is a writer, director, designer, and artist who has worked in film, television, video games, comic books and animation. He has written and designed on over forty videogames, including the mega-hits "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" and several games in the Transformers franchise. Micah has also written several feature films, hours upon hours of aired television, four books of political commentary, six graphic novels, and a musical comedy based on the jingoistic 1980's action film "Red Dawn." Micah is currently in post-production on his live action horror-comedy "They're Watching."

Before moving into film and games, Micah worked in animation, where he wrote episodes for various animated shows and was a staff writer on Nickelodeon's "The Angry Beavers." Micah also created, wrote, directed, and produced Nickelodeon’s first action-adventure show, "Constant Payne."

Micah is also a political commentator and protest artist. His poster website PropagandaRemix.com has reached millions of people worldwide. He has published three books of remixed propaganda posters. The first, "YOU Back The Attack, WE'LL Bomb Who We Want" includes a foreword by noted historian Howard Zinn and an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Micah's second book of posters, "If You're Not A Terrorist... Then Stop Asking Questions" and his third book "Surveillance Means Security!" are available now at booksellers. His satirical political art has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Sunday Guardian UK, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, the New Internationalist, the New Statesman, The Washington Post, and on the Fox News Channel.

Micah's Mature Readers comic "Stormwatch: Team Achilles," ran to high critical praise, and was collected into four trade paperbacks. "Duster," Micah's new Kickstarter-funded independent graphic novel, was published in 2015, and his next graphic novel, "Get Lucky" is currently in production.

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Turning the screw

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2003

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It must be the Judo.
I've always been impressed when someone can reverse an attacker's own technique and throw him with it.
The author has done this taking old propaganda art and changing it just a little so that its new message stands out even more sharply. Micah Wright's message seems harsh, reptetitive and maybe a bit bitter. Fair enough. He's an elite, blooded Army Ranger who lost his innocence when he saw atrocities performed in his country's name. Some soldiers make their peace with this. Others become angry. He became angry.
But this is a minor criticsim.
The message should be welcome to civil libertarians and lovers of freedom from all parts of the political spectrum. The underlying messages are simple. By pushing the country in to an unneccessary war the government has betrayed its soldiers. By creating a climate of fear and paranoia they are destroying the freedoms which make America America.
In short, there is a very good chance that our current leaders are involving us in another WWII, but with America as the Axis.
Scary stuff.

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STEVEN F. SCHARFF

Gold-plated monkey wrench in the propaganda machine's gears.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2003

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In-freaking-credible! Micah has taken WW2 posters and detourned them into new messages against the creeping fascism the USA finds itself in today. The typical visions of charging soldiers, the Statue of Liberty, and various patriotic images are framed with ironically Orwellian slogans or calls to rebel and protest. Perfect for enlarging as protest signs, or copying and leaving on a public bulletin board or under an SUV's windshield wiper.

Next to each poster is a text written by the Center for Constitutional Rights, giving further detail to the message of the poster.

Anyone even remotely interested in curent politics, or political activity should buy this book. Better still, reproduce the images (something the artist encourages in the inroduction) so others can be enlightened.

Buy this book...while you still can!

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A Grey Haired Hacker

No treason, just honest opinion

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2003

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I have read "About Face" by David Hackworth, I have read (and laughed at) "Up Front" by Bill Mauldin,
I have read Mr. Wright's comments. There is no treason in this book, just the opinions of a fellow citizen.
In "About Face", Mr. Hackworth enumerated the political
and military blunders committed by the U.S. during the Vietnam
War. In "Up Front", Mr. Mauldin chronicled the silly
administrative blunders of the U.S. Army during WW2.
Mr. Wright is simply following in this tradition.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2016

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good condition, great price

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Mister Bones

Powerful, Edgy, Funny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2003

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These posters speak for themselves. Every conscious American will love this book.
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Robin Orlowski

Democracy actually begins at home

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2003

Like many thinking Americans of all political ideologies, I was both horrified by the events of September 11th, and the response of my elected officials.

Instantly, a public policy originating against suspected terrorist funder Osama Bin Laden morphed into an assasination attempt against Saddam Hussein, and then just as quickly an unexplained general urge to impose our goverment on the Iraqi people, who (despite the abuses under Saddam) do not seem as enthusiastic about our dictates.

That the Bush administration's intervention rationale changed as quickly as the weather was convienently discarded by a 'liberal' media more enamored with fawning descriptions of 'patrotism' than raising difficult questions which had the very real potential of casting a shadow on the American political system itself. Because many of today's news anchors came of age during Vietnam themselves (and learned the administration response is not always truthful) the ommission is all the more upsetting.

I also realized however well-intentioned my politics, they would be difficult to communicate in a soundbite driven economy where even the most initally open-minded of swing voters becomes quickly ailenated by lengthy political tomes. Thus, even if a majority of citizens actually doubted the administration, their ability to provide memorable soundbies quickly reassured the same audiences. This book is an excellent tool for beating the far right at it's own game.

The updated images are intentionally culled from 1940's-1950's propaganda posters, ironically a time when patriotism was also blindly practiced. In those days, the fastest way to defeat your opponent was to accuse them of un-American behavior, a frightening trend returning in our own era. Government abuse of constitutional rights is allowed as long as good citizens remain silent and do nothing.

Wright has cleverly rengineered some entries to directly appeal to the self-humor of anti-war protestor's. Social change by nature is hard and prolonged, but taking a little time out to engage in sardonic humor at one's self helps lighten the long journey ahead.

Although there are dozens of national and local anti-war organizations, this book would be especially helpful for groups (new ones, and/or students) who want to protest 21st century colonization without blowing their own budgets. The professionally edited images arrive ready for modifications (an explicit suggestion within the book) thereby helping to ensure American democracy is more than a slogan, and something we actually practice ourselves.

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extending outright offing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2018

Remixed war propaganda has a back cover with the message: I only joined up for the college money. That made it logical for me to get drafted soon after I started graduate school in 1968 so I would have GI Bill benefits for more months of the three years it took to get a law degree, when Watergate on TV was making organized efforts to think as absurd as the message Don't Try to Think, which suggests defiance by role reversal to Howard Zinn in his introduction on Dissent and Democracy. The 2003 copyright puts this book thirty years after my law graduation. Page 91 mentions John Ashcroft, who would not want any of my thoughts to become the official wheat dementia brain disintegration.

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