THIS WAS the first Astonisher.com Free (Thought) Banner. Created in December 2002 -- four months before the U.S. Invasion of Iraq -- it said just about everything you needed to know about the George W. Bush era in four words: "Stupid President - Stupid War."

Six months later, after the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" fiasco revealed that Bush and Cheney had baldfaced lied to the American people to justify their illegal, immoral, atrocitry-laced and horribly counter-productive war, I added the following corollary: "Dishonest President - Dishonest War."