War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
It looks like George Tenet, the former CIA director whose intel proved to be wrong in the run-up to the Iraqi war, will have a big say in the coming weeks about the Bush Black House and the lies and twisted truths about the whole freaking mess. Now it’s revealed today that Tenet’s CIA actually…
Driving the US into the Iraqi war was the now-known completly false claims Saddam Hussein was a horrible threat to the entire planet. In those heady days in the run-up to the war, the visions of mushroom clouds and Saddam marching hand-in-hand with Osama Bin Laden was played over and over and over. Dick Cheney,…
Not only has the horrific Iraq war turned into some kind of long-tentacled Orwellian nightmare, now comes word of another Army scandal, right on the heels of the Pat Tillman tale, and appears to be plotted by screenwriters of a cheesy, nasty little action movie. According to the NBC News Website, the U.S Army has…
Dick Cheney had five deferments during Vietnam. And he claims those who oppose the Iraq mess “don’t have the stomach” for the war on terror. Easy life, easy street. The boy’s had it real good for a long time. In today’s LA Times, George McGovern takes Cheney to task for saying Domocrats are returning to…
In an age where events are known so fast and everybody just about everywhere can instantly become aware of every corner of the globe even the smallest little word can carry a big weight. And the little word here today is “palliate,” which means to try and make a wrong or an offense seem less…