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,…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
One Hand Clapping
June 1, 2008In watching the world spin away its last few hours, we wondered (not aloud as we were alone) about whether history will continue or maybe would soon change direction and leave no sign of this…
‘Puzzled’
May 29, 2008White House colleagues were stunned, but not lacking for the day’s response. “We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew,” said Dana Perino, the current press secretary who was first…
Frightful Future
May 28, 2008In the waning days of Decider George’s grip on reality, events and disclosures reveal just how bad the past nearly-eight years have been — an ugly, multi-generational inheritance. If one is heartless and puts aside…
High Road History
May 27, 2008Just a couple of news items that caught our eye this morning: I think there is so much that is disturbing in the documents, the fact that they lied to us to begin with —…
In Memoriam: ‘Shut Up and Die!’
May 26, 2008As another Memorial Day three-day weekend draws to a close, the oratories reported given across the country by anyone remotely attached to Decider George’s government makes one want to spew junks. In a time of…
Cash Flow
May 24, 2008Irony can sometimes be just the black residue of a lie. Since Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George has spent US peoples’ money like there was literally no tomorrow. And most of this cash flowed to…
Memorial Day ‘Companion’
May 23, 2008Here it is Friday before the famous Memorial Day weekend — once the party-igniting start to a summer of beer and chicks in halter tops — but now it’s on to $4 a gallon gas…
A General Cluster of ‘Malign Influence’
May 22, 2008As chin-strap, ramrod-retro, surge-happy US Army Gen. David Petraeus slips through his Senate confirmation hearings this morning, Iraq is slipping further into the surreal. Last month, Decider George picked Petraeus out of a crowd, a…
Apology ‘In the sense’
May 21, 2008Christians in the land of Islam. Not only did the holier-than-thou armies of the West invade Iraq, but the religion’s hypocrisy was sucked along with it. Trapped in an inferno, US GIs perform like the…