Taliban Taunt — ‘Bring ’em On’
December 22, 2008A war that just keeps on giving, and in lieu of current events, now the shoe could be on the other foot. Five years ago, Decider George blubbered bring ’em on like his ass was…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘Two Feet in One Shoe’ or A Cordwainer’s Delight
December 20, 2008Bloomberg reported Friday a certain Turkish shoe is flying off the shelf (h/t TPM): Baydan has received orders for 300,000 pairs of the shoes since the attack, more than four times the number his company…
Memory
December 19, 2008During the daily US State Department press briefing Thursday, Sean McCormack said the infamous shoe-throwing incident last weekend will be eclipsed by other more-important shit 50 years from now. An image, though, for pure foolish…
Dangerous Shoe
December 18, 2008Another observation from the UK’s Patrick Cockburn on last weekend’s shoe-throwing-at-Decider George incident and how these press conferences, media glad-handing photo ops can be highly misleading. Even with all the Iraqi public support for the…
‘War Dog’
December 18, 2008War correspondents are a relatively new entity on history’s battlefields, only since the middle of the 19th century have these adrenaline-driven reporters been around to point out foolish, fatal horrors of war. In the Crimean…
Preparatory Beware: Info from Liars and Incompetents
December 17, 2008Advice from fabricators and twisters of truth. The current White House people have produced “contingency plans” for President-Elect Obama in case some emergency might quickly pop up in the first few weeks of his administration,…
Outta Iraq!
December 16, 2008Under the newly-approved SOFA arrangement in Iraq, US troops have to be out by 2011. This dovetails with President-Elect Obama’s 16-month commitment to pull the plug on the Iraqi misadventure, but the way things happen,…
Shoe Two
December 15, 2008As the UK prepares to remove its Iraqi operations out in a couple of months — in a “humiliating” withdrawal — Decider George’s last visit to that ruined country this past weekend windows the disaster…
Shoe and Awe
December 14, 2008Quick and forceful: Decider George dodged and ducked more than some footware today. See the YouTube video here. (Illustration found here). Accordingly, one Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network, the guy…
Warmongers, Inc.
December 12, 2008Even as the Pentagon is engaged in two badly-run wars — Iraq and Afghanistan — and militarily involved all kinds of wars in all kinds of superfluous ways, the chief weapons merchant for the world…