Tag Archives: iraq

GW Bush Still An Idiot — And Still A War Criminal

May 19, 2022

(Illustration out front: ‘The Three Amigos,’ and found here). An idiot remains an idiot despite the whitewash, and even with the incense burning tattering holes in history books. When this blog first appeared 15 years…

Colin Powell And COVID — Also War Crimes

October 18, 2021

Colin Powell died earlier today — as I’m sure you now know  — he was 84 and lived a high-flying military life. Despite all the achievements, he will be remembered most/best for lying at the…

Nine/Eleven — 20 Years Of Crippling History

September 11, 2021

Cool and way-comfortable this mid-day Saturday in California’s Central Valley after a week of triple-digit temperatures and real-heavy air — a day of national remembrance of horrific airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and…

Afghan Again — Firefight Claims Five/Six US Soldiers

February 8, 2020

(Illustration found here). Even as the US seems to be on the cusp of break-down, we’ve still got the war on terror going strong, especially in Afghanistan — from the Military Times this afternoon: Numerous…

No Shock, No Awe — Iranian Rockets Glare in Iraq, US Troops ‘Still in Bunker Mode’

January 7, 2020

Into dangerous uncharted waters this Tuesday evening as reports of Iranian rockets falling onto a couple of Iraqi military bases housing American troops, first retaliatory strikes in the wake of the T-Rump’s command to assassinate…

WTF! — ‘War, huh, good god, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to me…’

January 3, 2020

A short new year and we’re up to our asses in dangerous shit in a hurry. Despite acting DHS honcho Chad Wolf declaring this morning there’s ‘currently no specific, credible threats against our homeland,’ the…

Iraq Again! ‘We Were Sent to Fight and Die for Absolutely Nothing’

December 31, 2019

Tomorrow is a brand-new year, but top of the news rounding-out 2019 is a topic decades old — Iraq. Via the Washington Post: Supporters of an Iranian-backed militia besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on…