The cartoon appears in over 400 US newspapers. And it is far from an isolated incident, similarly fascistic cartoons have been occuring throughout the US press. One publisher claims it is okay since :
> the drain cover depicted in the cartoon is clearly labeled with “Iran” and “extremism”
 http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CQPg

Yet that is plainly a lie. There is no mention of 'extremism', it clearly implies all Iranians are cockroaches. The fact that they lie about something plainly visible is proof they know what they are doing is wrong. This sort of dehumanisation propaganda is a necessary precursor to war and is something Goebbels would be proud of.

Cartoons aid US lynch mob mentality
 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II11Ak06.html

I wonder how much more western media criticism this would have got if this had been published in Middle Eastern papers ?