This Rolling Stone Magazine interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert says more than the basic facts surrounding the American invasions of Iraq, coupled with the death that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to.
These men lead American opinions by the hand using humor as their weapon of choice, concentrating on what I percieve is the correct way to battle ignorance and governmental corruption in a plethora of ways. From the interview:
Do you think the country would be better off if the Republicans or the Democrats were running it?
STEWART: I have no idea.
COLBERT: I wouldn't mind finding out what the options are.
STEWART: Yeah. It's sad that there are only those two choices. I think we'd be better off if you had a sense that people were making decisions based less on their future political considerations and more on what they believed were in the best interests of the country and the world.
Do you think anybody does that on the political scene?
STEWART: If they are, they're disguising it pretty well...