War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The big, old fat “cakewalk” security agreement between the US and Iraq might be in for some very heavy lifting in the next few weeks. BAGHDAD (AFP) – An Iraqi Shiite cleric on Friday denounced as “eternal slavery” a proposed security deal between Baghdad and Washington that outlines the long-term military presence of American forces…
In the 230-plus-year history of the US, it was bound to happen. One as cynical as us might have figured it would happen before now, before communications opened up governmental processes to a more public scrutiny, yet no real real-ugly hi-jinks until this current administration jackbooted into power. Dick Nixon was a Boy Scout compared…
Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US. War for oil. Old fart-head Alan Greenspan should have stuck to his gumption. He said last fall that Decider George went into Iraq for the Texas tea…
Life in a vacuum. If one lives in a glass house, but can’t see the outside world — creepy. From just about every angle, Decider George’s way-dangerous terms in office have been an unmitigated disaster. The W’s administration portfolio and accompanying details could fill a city of libraries, and just about all of the material…
In an ugly sense of an unconscious daydream, another natural tragedy has struck the US with its leader again out to lunch, or in this case, dinner: About 36,000 Iowans were evacuated because of statewide flooding, 24,000 of them in Cedar Rapids. The massive flooding has overwhelmed the city — which is in a 500-year…
In the few months left to him as king of the world, Decider George is seeking out his nemesis, the biggest bogeyman of them all — Osama bin Laden. President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House. Defence and…
The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. The bomb in the western province of Farah targeted…
Although Decider George reportedly majored in history at Yale, we all know what he did was party. People who major in things like history, usually also like to read. Decider George is not a book-kind-of-guy. He’s more into strutting, and saying dumb-ass things like telling Scott McClellan they’d end up pals years from now, all…
In order to get through each and every day, many of us medicated ourselves to cope. Whatever: A glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks, or smoke a bowl — means seems to justify the end. How about each and every day there’s horror, death and destruction? Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health…
If Sen. Barack Obama becomes President Obama in November, all the change in the world, even all the king’s men and horses and US peoples may not be able to correct the horror. Although a smorgasbord of shredded Americana faces the next commander-in-chief, Iraq is like the unmovable object being hit by an unstoppable force.…