Bush is the Butcher of Baghdad

Small poster produced in protest of the 1991 bombing of Iraq by the United States and Allied forces, squarely denouncing the Bush administration for the violence wreaked in Iraq. Notably this poster, also draws a direct link to the American firebombing of Dresden 46 years earlier, a bombing campaign that killed more than 20,000 civilians.

Though there is little recorded information about the group itself or the artists behind the initiative, we do know that Arch D. Bunker grew out of Processed World, the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist magazine directed at office workers, produced in San Francisco in the 1980s and '90s. Their pointed criticism of the mainstream media's complicity in the everyday spectacle of modern war is prescient in the age of media overdrive, riot porn, and social media.