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War Focus of Some Serious and Not So Serious Editorial Cartoons

Aired April 17, 2003 - 05:57   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The serious business of war has been the focus of some serious and not so serious editorial cartoons.
Our Jeanne Moos takes a look at some of them in this segment of Drawing Fire.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some who make a living drawing fire had Syria in their sights. There's Donald Rumsfeld saying "boo" to a petrified Syria. Syria's leader gets an ominous call. "It's Tommy Franks. He'd like a sample of your DNA." At the Baghdad Cafe, an American soldier says, "Still hungry. Think I'll have Syria for dessert." Today's special? "Grilled Saddam."

The "Cincinnati Post" showed CNN mobilizing for Syria. New logo, new theme music, "move the embeds."

And there CNN was again, a reporter giving a live report as his camera is stolen. "Sporadic looting continues here in Baghdad, Wolf."

Real pictures of what inspired couch potato cartoonists. "I saw one like that at IKEA." Chandelier from one of Saddam's palaces, $20,000. Air conditioner from Basra Hospital, $150. Looted Iraqi antiquities, priceless.

Celebrities who opposed the war paying the price.

JANEANE GAROFOLO, ACTRESS: Do we have the right to do that to a country that's done nothing to us?

MOOS: Janeane Garofolo and Martin Sheen are shocked and awed. "I'm shocked that the Iraqi people are actually greeting U.S. troops as liberators." "Aww, that means we look like idiots." Susan Sarandon gets a visit from the Iraqi minister of information. "Tell Ms. Sarandon her new P.R. rep is here."

That boy who lost his arms to a U.S. bomb keeps showing up in scathing cartoons: "Anything good on the news about how we disarmed Iraq?"

As for that deck of wanted regime leaders: "These Iraqi playing cards are so confusing. Do you have Saddam? Go fish."

It seems like everybody's fishing. But either the big one isn't biting or he's bitten the dust. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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Aired April 17, 2003 - 05:57   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The serious business of war has been the focus of some serious and not so serious editorial cartoons.
Our Jeanne Moos takes a look at some of them in this segment of Drawing Fire.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some who make a living drawing fire had Syria in their sights. There's Donald Rumsfeld saying "boo" to a petrified Syria. Syria's leader gets an ominous call. "It's Tommy Franks. He'd like a sample of your DNA." At the Baghdad Cafe, an American soldier says, "Still hungry. Think I'll have Syria for dessert." Today's special? "Grilled Saddam."

The "Cincinnati Post" showed CNN mobilizing for Syria. New logo, new theme music, "move the embeds."

And there CNN was again, a reporter giving a live report as his camera is stolen. "Sporadic looting continues here in Baghdad, Wolf."

Real pictures of what inspired couch potato cartoonists. "I saw one like that at IKEA." Chandelier from one of Saddam's palaces, $20,000. Air conditioner from Basra Hospital, $150. Looted Iraqi antiquities, priceless.

Celebrities who opposed the war paying the price.

JANEANE GAROFOLO, ACTRESS: Do we have the right to do that to a country that's done nothing to us?

MOOS: Janeane Garofolo and Martin Sheen are shocked and awed. "I'm shocked that the Iraqi people are actually greeting U.S. troops as liberators." "Aww, that means we look like idiots." Susan Sarandon gets a visit from the Iraqi minister of information. "Tell Ms. Sarandon her new P.R. rep is here."

That boy who lost his arms to a U.S. bomb keeps showing up in scathing cartoons: "Anything good on the news about how we disarmed Iraq?"

As for that deck of wanted regime leaders: "These Iraqi playing cards are so confusing. Do you have Saddam? Go fish."

It seems like everybody's fishing. But either the big one isn't biting or he's bitten the dust. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com




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