The event/issue inspired by this picture is the war that's going on were fighting for oil, and the soldiers that are fighting - their fighting leads to death. The main objects in this picture is the soldier, British flag, U.S. flag, oil crude, and reality. The specific artistic techniques used in the picture is symbolism and irony. The 3 things infer from the cartoon is we might lose the fight, the gov't doesn't really care about one's condition, there's going to be a lot of deaths. The message in the cartoon is the British and Americans are both fighting for oil. Eventually the soldiers get hurt and a lot of them end up dying. The group that would agree with this picture is the soldiers and the gov't and their family would disagree. The artist point of view portrayed that he/she believes that the soldiers are being treated unfair, The word "Crude" on the picture looks like its bleeding- bleeding oil. The cartoon is very persuasive because the author shows us how injured the soldiers gets- by loosing his legs, even his hands.