I particularly like the burning farmhouse in the background. Very effective propaganda, but possibly a bit too “anti-war” for ProPeace.

In a way, I think I know where they may be coming from. Bush & Blair, while highly oppressive and dangerous holders of high office, are themselves victims of machismo, materialism, xenophobia and Islamophobia – in fact, everything that the Military-Industrial-Petro-Political-Complex has thrown at them and with which they have become enthralled and have colluded. Bush is so testoterone-charged in the language of crusade and war in the quest for oil. Blair must be so immature (or just realistic about the US’s suzerainty over the UK??) to feel that it was somehow better to ally the UK with the US in the invasion. I feel genuinely sorry for them that they have become so alienated from the rest of humanity and sorry for the rest of humanity that we have to suffer the consequences. And let’s face it, we are not completely immune from alienating thoughts and behaviour ourselves, are we?

I wonder how one might be able to depict these oppressors from such a compassionate perspective. Perhaps ProPeace would buy it then!

Thanks for the kind words Alan. The picture you mention (based on the famous painting American Gothic) is a favourite of mine.
I do have to disagree with you though. At the head of the military-industrial complex in both America and England is a compliant and supine government.
In a democracy we should be able to expect our leaders to govern and not be dictated to by special interest groups who have only their own narrow self serving aims to guide them.
There is no excuse for the leader in either country to engage in a war that is not actively condoned and backed by the majority. Further - if you then do engage in a war, against the wishes of the majority and utilising patently false declarations (LIES) to justify your doing so, then you deserve to be lambasted in the harshest possible terms. these are the actions of WARMONGERS.
As for the Pro-peace stance - the very same graphics have featured prominently in the heartland of America as well as in Aus without any form of censorship being imposed. Pro-peace are trying to walk an imaginary line between being compliant and reactionary - it is my firm belief that we have no option but to be highly vocal and reactionary when confronting the reality of a conflict such as the one that our leaders are currently engaged in.
Our leaders are the reactionary ones. They have placed our societies in a situation where we will have to spend a generation or more in repairing the moral foundations of our various states.
LIES need to be called LIES - in no uncertain terms. WARMONGERS must be labeled WARMONGERS.
The deaths of a hundred thousand people can be laid at these leaders feet. This is not a parliamentary debate or a quiet coffee house chat - this is an argument with the future of the western world at stake. With the young lives of many more economic conscripts on the line.
This is no time for carefully judging the length of our footfall - now is the time that we must raise our voices in protest, loud and clear. Now is the time we must point out, in unequivocal terms, that this is WRONG. To do anything less is to become complicit in one of the greatest crimes the modern world has ever hosted.
When the Pro-peace net expends energy in navel gazing and waffling about "pro-peace and not anti-war" they atre doing nothing more than assisting in passing the ammunition.
I AM ANTI-WAR - AND I WILL PROCLAIM THE FACT LOUDLY AND IN STRIDENT AND IN-YOUR-FACE TERMS. Those who are dying in my name, needlessly, deserve nothing less.
James Moylan