Cartoonist pisses off the Pentagon!

Go Tom Toles! Seriously, this is ridiculous. Tom drew a cartoon criticizing Rumsfeld for not caring about what happens to wounded soldiers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff write an angry letter to the Washington Post claiming Toles hates the troops.

I've been a huge fan of his work since I was in high school, and he talked me and several other cartoonists into a salsa-dancing excursion at the 2003 AAEC convention:

From left to right: Mark Fiore, Tom Toles, Lalo Alcaraz, Ted Rall

That faraway look in Tom's eye? He's thinking about how much he HATES THE TROOPS.

P.S. AmericaBLOG has the most detailed coverage of this whole nonsense. If you're reading this link a while from now, just look in their February and late January archives.