# Tom Toles 03/15/07: What's the reference?

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**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057 "2007-03-15T16:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057/1 "2007-03-15T16:53:10Z")

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Tom Toles is the editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post. In [today’s cartoon](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&date=03152007) (Thursday 15 March 2007) he castigates Joint Chief of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace for his recent comments about homosexuals. Toles does so in the form of an open letter. He added a little cartoonist character at the bottom of the cartoon saying “P.S., I trust this will sound familiar”

Well, the letter does sound familiar, but I can’t quite place it. Didn’t the Joint Chiefs release an open letter giving somebody grief about a statement about the Iraq war? I can’t quite remember who or when - and my Google-fu is weak. Somebody political - John Kerry??

Inquiring and confused minds want to know! Thanks in advance, Dopers!

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**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057/2 "2007-03-15T17:20:19Z")

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Last Feburary Toles got lambasted by the Joint Chiefs for a cartoon. This seems like his answer.

[link](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102465.html)

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057/3 "2007-03-15T17:31:42Z")

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Thankew!! Ignorance fought.

Hey, General Pace, ain’t symmetry a bitch!

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057/4 "2007-03-19T09:42:59Z")

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There was also a [Pit thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357034&highlight=toles) back when it happened, which includes a link to Pace’s original tantrum.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-toles-03-15-07-whats-the-reference/396057/5 "2007-03-19T15:17:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Typo Knig]

Hey, General Pace, ain’t symmetry a bitch!  
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Amen! _Ziiiiiiiiing!_

Good on ya, Tom.