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Cartoons: "Last week there was controversy over a cartoon which was NOT of the Prophet Mohammad.  The cartoon shows a US soldier in a hospital who is a quadruple amputee.  Its point is that Donald Rumsfeld is glossing over the damage done to the US armed forces by the continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff felt that the cartoon was in bad taste (so do I) and wrote an unusual joint letter of objection to the Washington Post which had published the cartoon. CNN ran a story on the Joint Chief’s letter.  During the entire story, the cartoon was on the screen.  It should have been; that’s what the controversy was about. If you want to scrutinize the cartoon, click the thumbnail below. But CNN feels differently about the pictures of the Prophet Mohammed: “CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.” This is a slight change from CNN’s earlier statement that they didn’t want to offend Muslims by showing any picture of Mohammed.  They have discovered in the interim that you can buy postcards of the Prophet in Tehran and that his likeness is in bas relief in "