A Farewell to George Bush: Play the Video Game!

Muntazar al-Zaidi, what have you started? As the 43rd President leaves office, you can send him on his way with shoes...and also candies, daisies, eggs, and weapons of mass destruction.

Or, if you prefer, you can help Dubya pack up the Oval Office (don't forget the Osama bin Laden dartboard).

Gaza: More Tasteful Video Games

Last Friday we featured the sensitive, thoughtful video-game tribute to the Gaza conflict "Save Israel". Turns out, however, this is only the beginning --- "Jhak" has kindly pointed us to the far more elaborate "Raid Gaza". This time, you're not firing the Qassam rockets at southern Israel but following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's orders: "You get 5 minutes. Eliminate as many Palestinians as possible."

You even get an introductory quote by Olmert, "The parameters of a unilateral solution are to maximize the number of Jews, and to minimize the number of Palestinians." (Yes, it's a real quote.)

Gaza: Tasteful Video Game of the Day

Enduring America has a proud tradition (in its two-plus months in existence) of combining international news and video games. We were proud, for example, to feature the Muntazar al-Zaidi tribute games last month and not-so-proud to report the US Army's use of video games to get American teenagers into military service.

Now, however, we may take a step back. How can anyone compete, for taste and decency, with "Save Israel?": "You need to save Israeli citys. First, click on the city, to turn on the alarm. Now you can click on the rocket, to blow it up."