War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A little legal note in the shadows of Decider George’s Iraqi adventure. Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, in a tape-recorded interview with a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, said he and Sgt. Ryan Weemer were ordered by Sgt. Jose Nazario to kill the prisoners as the Marines swept through a neighborhood in Fallouja in late 2004. Several…
A shitload of stuff the US says and then does is an outright lie, or at best, a stance hidden behind a forest of double-standards. Case in full point: Cluster bombs. These little bits of long-term horror have been used repeatedly by all the world’s military since the Russians introduced the Germans to its capabilities…
Celebrate the horror of what US children are doing this holiday: Miller ran with the Marines he was with to the scene of the attack. “As I ran I saw human pieces…a skull cap with hair, bone shards,” he told IPS during a telephone interview from the so-called Green Zone in Baghdad. “When we arrived…
So Decider George wants a little history, huh? He thinks the future will look more kindly on his tortured ass than folks do nowadays. Wrong! Never assume! It Makes An Ass Out of You and Me. Wrong! Even before being Decider George — back when he was just George Jr., back when he did nothing…
Any idiot general worth his star should have seen this coming. Although a few military types did pipe up, they were shouted down by Decider George and his warrior-in-camp, Damn-Dumb Don Rumsfeld. Now it’s broken-back, breakdown: WASHINGTON — The Pentagon faces a more than $100 billion bill to repair and replace worn out or destroyed…
James Michener’s Caravans is a good-read, romantic novel set in an exotic 1950 Afghanistan. The hero is a young, likable consulate worker with the American embassy in Kabul. The plot: He’s called on to chase down and retrieve the free-spirited daughter of a US senator who has charged off with a local warlord into the…
Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US. War for oil. Old fart-head Alan Greenspan should have stuck to his gumption. He said last fall that Decider George went into Iraq for the Texas tea…
The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. The bomb in the western province of Farah targeted…
In order to get through each and every day, many of us medicated ourselves to cope. Whatever: A glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks, or smoke a bowl — means seems to justify the end. How about each and every day there’s horror, death and destruction? Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health…
A strong, coherent voice, crying in the wilderness has gone. William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who, in recent years, became a forceful critic of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died May 30 at his vacation home…