The timetable for withdrawal from Iraq

According to the inimitable Steve Bell. In another bygone era (the early 1970s) there was a joke about something that was not very funny. "What do you call 7500 GIs and 10000 US Marines dangling from the runner of a military helicopter?" "An orderly withdrawal from Southeast Asia." (Alternative answer : peace with honor. Honor. What a quaint word.) The same so-called joke can soon be applied to Iraq, but you might want to add "over the smoking wreckage of an overloaded British helicopter?" And they had the gall to say Iraq was no Vietnam.

Steve Bell

I am just sad that I am too old to offer to bear Steve Bell's children. This man is an effing genius.

A Really Wicked Steve Bell Cartoon

Click on the cartoon for more from Steve Bell.

Covering the war

There's a very funny vignette and also some good rumours and murmurings in Brian Whitaker's daily briefing on the war.

Steve Bell, excellent political cartoonist, has an article about being a "war cartoonist". Read why he would rather stay in the Palestine Hotel than wear a flak jacket with CARTOONIST stenciled across it.