After reading that US military forces prohibited aid from reaching Haiti for as long as seven days after the earthquake–in order to establish “command and control,” whatever that is—hard-hitting editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and animator David Essman rushed out their trenchant critique of America’s bizarre post-9/11 practice of sending soldiers to disaster zones like New Orleans and the Indian Ocean after the tsunami.

Watch “Operation Haitian Freedom” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8zVZzdbXQ