Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces,…
“Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon. What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?” — Decider George…
“I’d really like to have him (Michael Chertoff) spend some time with us telling us why he thinks you’re qualified for the job, because based on the resume I don’t think you are.” — Sen.…
Upon receiving the not-altogether-hideous news, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was reportedly optimistic, but could not predict a realistic time frame in which the overall conditions in Iraq would become the opposite of terrifying, or even…
An interesting item, the lede from Inter Press News Service, written by Dahr Jamail: “Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor,…
As the worldwide price of oil subtly neared $90 a barrel and two US wars in the Middle East are quickly, horrifically going-to-shit in slow motion, Decider George obtained a good laugh yesterday at a…
Just when one thinks all the worst aspects of the US military system has been revealed, here comes another. Even with the well-documented horror about equipment, body armor, and prolonged tours in war zones, the…
Fifty years ago today our world was way-way smaller. We here at Compatible Creatures were smaller:Â Only eight-years-old. Howdy Doody, the puppet. Lee Marvin as a TV detective and those Pall Mall commericals ending with…”outstanding!…
“President George W. Bush’s paranoid megalomania is so rampant that close friends and supporters worry about the man’s sanity and fear he has lost his tenuous grip on reality.” Â Â Â Â Â Â…
“I’m not much of a reader,” I said, ashamed. “I never had much schoolin’.” “But you can read, can’t you?” “A mite ma’am.” I pushed back from the table. “I’m gettin’ up early. I better…