PART I: THE IRAQ WAR: REAL AND VIRTUAL * Yellow Ribbons Everywhere and No Meaning to Be Found--Ernest A. Hakanen * Political Bumper Stickers and Vehicle Class: Are SUVs the Enemy?--Douglas Porpora and David Koch * Stars and Stripes in the Year after 9/11: 'Rally around the Flag' or 'The Flag Is a Rag'--Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell * A Small World-and Its Flags-in a Much Bigger One--Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood * Searching for Common Sense: Tracing the Roots of George W. Bush's War Rhetoric--Michael Butler * The Pornographic Barbarism of the Self-Reflecting Sign--Paul A. Taylor * Warlords of the Iraqi Blogosphere--Priscilla Ringrose * Warriors or Amazons: How Opposing the War in Iraq Became a Gender Issue in Mexico--Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza * PART II: WARS THEN AND NOW *  Not So Far from Vietnam: A Study of War, Film and the Media--Jonathan Ervine * War, Nationalism, Fear, Cruelty, Religion: Comparing Depictions of Indians in 19th Century French-Canadian Literature and Arabs in Americal Political Cartoons 2001-2005--Vincent Masse * War and Peace in Christian Prayer--Andrew Thomas, Susan Berg, Tor Berg, David Nice.