Blog Birthday: ‘Eighteen Years Later …’
April 24, 2025This particular day, 18 years ago, was a Tuesday. What a stretch of time, huh? In April 2007, war was the major topic, and shit looked bad — yet in a nowadays perspective, them was…
Category Archives: Iraq War
Memorial: ‘It Feels A Shame To Be Alive—When Men So Brave—Are Dead’
May 29, 2023Today in memory of those KIA in our country’s historically many far-flung wars, a reminder of those currently dying in the really-way asymmetrical war within America (NBC News): ‘A spate of shootings across the United…
Time Melt Iraq — Day One Of ‘Bush Lied, People Died’ 20 Years Later
March 20, 2023Today is the first day of Spring 2023, and also the 20th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion. (Illustration: US Marines in northern Kuwait assembling to invade Iraq; photograph found here.) How those two events combine…
Iraq Invasion Near 20 Years Ago — Part Two: ‘Thunder Run’
March 17, 2023Sunshine and warm temps this late afternoon Friday in California’s Central Valley — another most-gorgeous day. In the opposite direction, another spin here into the upcoming 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq — on…
Iraq Invasion Near 20 Years Ago — An Approaching Anniversary Of Infamy
March 13, 2023Next Monday is the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq — an international day of infamy: (Image: ‘The Three Amigos‘ — Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Don Rumsfeld, oozing manliness on a road outside…