War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Quick 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 above with the shoe in his up-raised hand, threw both his footwear at Decider George this evening during a press…
Even 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 in all these engagements is the one supposedly spreading democracy — the US. Arming the planet keeps a certain part…
(Illustration — ‘Baghdad Sunset‘ — can be found here). Wikipedia has a good-as-any overall summation of the Iraqi war and can be found here, but there’s a shitload of other case studies of Decider George’s horror tale, just Google ‘Iraq War’ then sit back. In the last few months, however, the story has narrowed down…
Everything!! (Illustration found here). Just when you figured Decider George’s blundering for near-eight years was all in the big stuff — Iraq, Katrina, the economy — think once, and maybe even think twice more. According to Raw Story this morning, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a non-profit investigative journalism group which recently “set out…
Decider George went around blubbering last week about how the CIA screwed way-up over Iraqi WMD: Sorry about that, “just wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” The intel was different, asshole. It just wasn’t war material. Based upon curveball information, goaded by an Iraqi expatriate and doing as the Brits reported: “…the intelligence…
Ironic horror-humor: Not funny in the smallest bit. In fact, the cartoon below creates a vast pissed-offed affect/effect when one ponders the lying words of damn-dumb Don Rumsfeld: “As you know, you go to war with the Army you have…not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” Just micro-seconds…
In a metaphor mix, Afghanistan’s capital appears encircled in a hangman’s noose as Taliban forces expands its footprint across the country. In a report issued Monday by a France-based think tank: The group said Taliban fighters have advanced out of southern Afghanistan, a region where they often hold de facto governing power, and carry out…
Karl and George: Still up to no good. Now they’re on an exploding PR exit-strategy bandwagon to try and purify Decider George’s putrid near-eight years in office. (Illustration found here). In the closing days of a crime scene government that’s been without doubt the most corrupt and incompetent in US history, not to mention one…
In a flash: There’s a couple of stories out there this morning on Decider George’s legacy — both today and beyond next month. One from CNN here and the other from Juan Cole here, although Cole’s piece is an examination of Decider George’s speech yesterday at the the Saban Forum in Washington, DC. CNN is…
The mouthpiece has moved beyond the mouth. Decider George’s front gal, Dana Perino, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, bit the lip of goofiness yesterday during an exchange with Helen Thomas, seemingly the only White House reporter with balls. In a quiet way, Thomas showed Perino as schoolyard bully in some questions about Iraq…