War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The president’s approval rating in the poll, conducted Dec. 6 through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation, was 32 percent, tying his all-time low rating from June. Sixty-six percent disapproved of how Bush is handling his job, the poll found, about equal to the 65 percent early last month. Only 15 percent said they approved “strongly”…
Hypocrisy in war is worse-case scenerio for horror. In this Decider George’s terrifying war on terror (root of the word, “war”: wers from Indo-European, “to confuse, mix up”) nothing says shit better than the old boots on the ground. On Monday, an US Army hearing officer advised that 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside should not be…
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, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General and obtained exclusively by the CBS News investigative…
“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 on Tuesday Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Decider George always decides what is right and wrong. “The Iranians have a strategic…
“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. George Voinovich during confirmation hearings for Julie Myers, 9/15/05 Meyers was never confirmed by the full Senate for directorship of…
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 sort of halfway livable. However, Gates did say that if the bombings are any indication of future conditions, the situation…
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, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed ‘search and avoid’ missions.” Jamail’s…
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 press conference arrogantly avoiding a question on how he was going to rein in Blackwater, his Christian mercenary army. Although…
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 medical ‘don’t-give-a-shit’ care exploding from Walter Reed and just about every other military hospital, the recruitment of anyone who can…
Fifty years ago today our world was way-way smaller. We here at Compatible Creatures were smaller: Only eight-years-old. Howdy Doody, the puppet. Lee Marvin as a TV detective and those Pall Mall commericals ending with…”outstanding! And they are mild.” And now fifty years later, our world is even-more smaller. We, however, are way-way grown. In…