War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the last few years there’s been a lot comparisons between the current Iraqi adventure and the Vietnam war, two towering blunders in US foreign policy, not to mention the immeasurable loss of life and the cataclysm in the social conscience of a nation. Iraq is not Vietnam — or is it? (Illustration found here).…
Mark Twain hit the real bird squarely on the truth’s head: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the…
Decider George is like a rotten, aching and throbbing tooth, one of the them backside, big-old molars, one that can’t be worked on or even pulled, sitting there in the headcase, making life even more miserable with each countdown-passing second. Yesterday, the outgoing commander-in-chief told a crowd of people most-likely destined again for the Islamic…
Big Al and Decider George at show-and-tell. Four years ago near to the day: “There’s a lot we don’t know about his actions as White House counsel and his advice to the president,†said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists. “What we do know is rather…
Delusion is the child of ‘What, Me Worry?’ Especially if one doesn’t like homework and just goes with a gut instinct. In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on a Japanese television network, Decider George blubbered through his lying, delusional teeth he was very pleased with how the Iraqi war has been handled and how wonderful…
Decider George has become worse than useless. The little shithead is in Peru this weekend waxing “a little nostalgic” for the hallucinogenic heady days of shock and awe, mission accomplished, and ‘bring ’em on’ — certainly not for the reality of those episodes of horror. Events seem to have accelerated the past few weeks. Terror…
A reunion of history sipping ice tea and savoring the memories. Journalism became a celebrity job in the mid 1970s, surging upward an already-emerging elite, near-aristocratic class of news people, from the copy desk, reporters, editors, to the executive suites, and this mechanism of modern media received its biggest boost from a “two-bit burglary.” (Illustration…
Even here in the far reaches of northern California, life appears as a dilemma. If one ponders the entangled proceedings bursting at the seams, many questions arise in which the answer lies within the question itself, where the reply means more than the words — A horse goes into a bar, bartender asks, ‘Why the…
Villainy from a master. Corruption is Decider George’s real middle name — along with a nasty form of depravity named Karl Rove — and this innate form of life has spilled over into Iraq, an original corrupt state, where pocketing US cash has become a habit. In a war started with lies, the only recourse…
In full Arabic transliteration his name is UsÄmah bin Muḥammad bin`AwaḠbin LÄdin. In the West, however, in English-language mass media, it’s simply Osama. The original bad boy of modern times. The US military has been fighting and killing thousands of people all over the globe in the past decade searching for the reported mastermind…