Celebrate the Horror
July 4, 2008Celebrate the horror of what US children are doing this holiday: Miller ran with the Marines he was with to the scene of the attack. “As I ran I saw human pieces…a skull cap with…
Category Archives: Just Plain War
Wrong Assumptions
June 29, 2008So Decider George wants a little history, huh? He thinks the future will look more kindly on his tortured ass than folks do nowadays. Wrong! Never assume! It Makes An Ass Out of You and…
Fan belts and Alternators
June 26, 2008Any idiot general worth his star should have seen this coming. Although a few military types did pipe up, they were shouted down by Decider George and his warrior-in-camp, Damn-Dumb Don Rumsfeld. Now it’s broken-back,…
Romance Redacted
June 23, 2008James Michener’s Caravans is a good-read, romantic novel set in an exotic 1950 Afghanistan. The hero is a young, likable consulate worker with the American embassy in Kabul. The plot: He’s called on to chase…
Real Deal — Oil and Permanence
June 18, 2008Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US. War for oil. Old fart-head Alan Greenspan…
Deadly Dilemma: No Easy Way Out
June 14, 2008The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest…
Drugs, Dying and a Long War
June 7, 2008In order to get through each and every day, many of us medicated ourselves to cope. Whatever: A glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks, or smoke a bowl — means seems to justify the…
GI Tears
June 2, 2008A strong, coherent voice, crying in the wilderness has gone. William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who,…
Surging ‘Uptick’
April 20, 2008Just as soon as we think the situation in Iraq is going to get worse, it does. Business for the new, improved Iraqi version of al-Qaeda is booming. The Iraq central government is farther pushing…
Occupier Beware!
April 16, 2008Yesterday, car bombs in Baghdad and in a couple of other places in Iraq continue to explode-open a war which has become so confused and unfettered by the day. Fifty (at the minimum, probably more)…