War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Decider George shames all US peoples. He couldn’t grasp his ass with both hands. And his hypocrisy makes one suffer enough to shit a brick: SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt — President Bush said Saturday that “it breaks my heart” that the Palestinian people have been unable to establish an independent homeland and he vowed anew…
Is Decider George’s government heartless and cruel at every level? Apparently, the whole shebang is not worth a shit: WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal e-mail message written by a Veteran’s Affairs Department employee suggested that the agency avoid giving a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans and instead consider a diagnosis that might result…
Since early Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, the US has reportedly been at war. According to Decider George and his bunch of continually-wrong minons, this war is being waged against those who practice terror. Aside from the fact this actual war has been ongoing for decades, maybe since Iran in 1953, or even maybe back to…
Can anyone really take Decider George seriously? He seems to have absolutlely no shame. Does one think Jenna Bush considers/thinks/reflects/ponders or even wonders about her daddy being a blundering, atrocious villian? Of course not! Jenna on Sunday married that baby-necked, dumb-ass-looking Hank Hager in a pastoral, Hollywood-old-West wedding while the world burned. After a sweet, booze-drenched…
In the long run, probably the biggest news story of the year so far is the unspoken one, a seemingly open secret. The New York Times expose a couple of weeks ago on the Pentagon’s public propaganda machine, enlisting retired military types to wax eloquent on TV news about the ongoing disasters in Iraq and…
As a writer, we here at Compatible Creatures have numerous technical difficulties when operating equipment, whether large or small — from a rude, ungainly Smith-Corona typewriter 40 years ago to a confused, mysterious, virus-infected 2007 Dell laptop — and even with a Skil saw during manual-labor days. In a literary instance, we should have remained…
As the Iraqi and Afghan wars continue, the frustration and horror of US GIs on the ground seems to have no bounds. Not only do they have to endure a violent and senseless situation every day, but they have to suffer double and triple for it, even after coming home. American and Iraqi forces in…
Now more than seven-and-a-half years later, the US has been sidelined from pursuing bad guys and instead is on a quagmire-like, downward spiral via a couple of savage sinkholes. Although a military strike into Afghanistan appeared to be logical move in the fall of 2001, original intent had been Iraq. “We will definitely have to…
A first read and seemingly nothing new. A few minutes, hours and now a couple of days to contemplate. The scenario now sickens us to the bowels. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s…
Just as soon as we think the situation in Iraq is going to get worse, it does. Business for the new, improved Iraqi version of al-Qaeda is booming. The Iraq central government is farther pushing the country into a wide-open, no-holds-barred, bloody civil war each and every day. And literally scrambling around in the crosshairs…