The long weekend is almost over, which means it's time to announce the winners of our anti-war slogan contest.

Once again, there was a flood of excellent entries, making it extremely difficult to pick winners out of the field.

As always, winners receive absolutely nothing, other than bragging rights. A big thanks to everyone who entered, and without further ado, here are the top three winners in each of the following categories: Best Chant, Best Anti-Bush Slogan, Best Slogan To Influence Middle America, Best Slogan To Influence Congress, Funniest Slogan, Most Subtle Slogan, and Best Obscure Reference.

At the end, five awards for Most Profane / Tasteless (because of overwhelming interest in the category), and my five picks for Best Overall Slogan.

 

BEST CHANT

Third place: mutex

One, two, three
what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
Next stop is Iran.
And its five, six, seven
they're building a caliphate
let's listen to Bush orate
Ain't no time
to wonder why
More Iraqis just need to die!

 

Second place: phiddle

What do we want?
PEACE NOW!
How do we do it?
GET OUT NOW!

 

First place: Dap

One year, Two years, Three years, Four...
Five years, Six years...
No more war!

 

 

BEST ANTI-BUSH SLOGAN

Third place: MoNut

IMPEACH
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

 

Second place: MoNut

Tell George the Party's over.

 

First place: Dap

And what did ya expect...
When a Cheerleader was elected President?

 

 

BEST SLOGAN TO INFLUENCE MIDDLE AMERICA

Third place: provgrays

Escalate Peace!

 

Second place: phoenixer

How many additional dead Americans is Cheney's war worth?

 

First place: Michale

IF YOU ARE SO CONCERNED FOR THE TROOPS,
VOLUNTEER TO TAKE THEIR PLACE.

 

 

BEST SLOGAN TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS

Third place: Ben Dixon

Democracy in Iraq at the cost of a broken Army is no victory.

 

Second place: loslobo

When have so few been so wrong?

 

First place: Rethymniotis

IRAQI FREEDOM:
$20,000/IRAQI
AND COUNTING

 

 

FUNNIEST SLOGAN

Third place: magen

I'd like to see a BIG photoshopped picture of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rove, Snow, Lott, McConnell, etc. dressed in cheerleader outfits. On top of the sign in big letters --
CHICKENHAWKS FOR WAR

 

Second place: MoNut

We fight 'em over there...
To adopt their policies over here?

 

First place: negogato

Time to scrape the gop off the constitution.

 

 

MOST SUBTLE SLOGAN

Third place: Qbear

Surge after surge after surge
Is it 2009....YET?

 

Second place: Rethymniotis

As a first thought, I'd like to see lots of signs shaped like baseball's home plate. Maybe with one of those stupid "Support the Troops" ribbons right in the middle. If that's too subtle, add the words "Bring Them Home."

 

First place: progresemulo

Small government, low taxes, unrestricted firearms -- the surge is working!

 

 

BEST OBSCURE REFERENCE

Third place: phiddle

No Soldier Left Behind!

 

Second place: Dap

Look to your future...
I have one word for you...
Prosthetics.

 

First place: dissolvethecorporation

Read my lips: No new wars!

 

 

MOST PROFANE / TASTELESS

Fifth place: Qbear

Michael Vick is voting Republican

 

Fourth place: MoNut

A real God would've sent him a plan by now.

 

Third place: loslobo

Saddam doesn't seem so #@$%*& bad now

 

Second place: loslobo

Killed enough kids for Exxon/Halliburton?

 

First place: Ben Dixon

Better 10,000 Iraqi deaths than one American death

 

 

BEST OVERALL SLOGAN

Fifth place: MoNut

OUT NOW.
NO MORE.

 

Fourth place: nypoet22

Draft Congress

 

Third place: jim_mullen

Rebuild America, Not Iraq

 

Second place: loslobo

Anybody figure out who we are fighting or why?

 

And (drumroll...) the Best Overall Slogan of the entire contest goes to...

Grand Prize: grendl

Thank you Mr. Bush for eight years of gore.

 

Cross-posted at The Huffington Post

 

-- Chris Weigant