Cartoon+2

=Cartoon 2= = Just in case you're wondering cathie, this was an issue from 2oo6, but I am still choosing to use it for my second cartoon. =

On Friday, September 1st 2oo9, NDP leader Jack Layton commented that Canada should pull its troops out of Afghanistan by February because the mission has gone astray. (“Layton wants Feb. withdrawal from Afghanistan”). Layton said that the Afghan mission has lost its direction, bantering both PM Stephen Harper, and at the time, President Bush. In this cartoon, the artist portrayed a message that Jack Layton has a big mouth by putting his face on the rear of an airplane, and also doing so by saying that Jack Layton’s idea of getting our troops out of Afghanistan would be by flying them across in his “big mouth”. The only thing that I would add to this cartoon would be a decal along the side of the plane that read, “ Layton air”, identifying that the plane is Jack Layton. Although that has already been done through the text to classify the plane as Jack Layton, that is the only thing I would add to this cartoon. I agree with the message of this cartoon that Jack Layton had a big mouth in saying what he did. A retired general and president of the Conference of Defense Associations Institute said himself that Layton’s suggestion would be a catastrophe. Taking our troops out of Afghanistan would be harder than it sounds. When building a house, you can’t start the framing right away, you must pour footings, basements, and have inspections done. To take our troops out of Afghanistan, we would have to pay to have them brought back, plus also putting more lives at risk by flying planes into enemy territory. Taking our troops out of Afghanistan would also give a message of how all of the soldiers that have died already fighting for freedom, died for nothing. Why? The reason, Jack Layton felt that the mission had gone astray. 10/10

“Layton wants Feb. withdrawal from Afghanistan.” //CTV.// CTV globe media. 1 September 2006 Web. 6th November 2009. []
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