War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As we bask in the happy-rhetoric of the DNC, just consider a Jackboot John McCain presidency — maybe one shouldn’t willingly do such a thing. It’s the stuff of horror fiction. A good comment/view on this affrightful apparition comes from investigative journalist Robert Perry over at consortiumnews.com. Perry envisions rightly so a picture of some…
Poland’s prime minister shortly after inking a missile agreement with the US earlier this month: Speaking in an interview televised on news channel TVN24, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the United States had agreed to help augment Poland’s defenses with Patriot missiles in exchange for placing 10 missile defense interceptors in the eastern European country.…
Sixty-three years ago today Sueko Hada was then seven-years-old: “I managed to claw my way out from under the rubble. By now, our house was on fire and the cries of my sisters were getting fainter. I left to look for help. When I went outside I saw that everything had totally changed. Although it…
This sad, ugly Wide World of War on Terror has gone from real bad to a mounting realization of a coming catastrophic turn for the worse, even as Barack Obama trips through Afghanistan and Iraq, gaining seemingly popular support, as US warfare tactics cause more and more civilian deaths. After all this at the pad…
Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates Monday morning about how time is coming nigh for the US to gather…
A category here at Compatible Creatures is Orwellian — a sort which in recent days seems to aptly fit. The word’s very image represents a malignant, manipulative and repressive entity in a position of power, including the power to control reality. Coined from a book by UK writer, Eric Arthur Blair, writing under the way-now-famous-name…
The war in Iraq is a horror in which no US citizen is immune. In a well-presented op/ed in the Los Angeles Times last week, Cy Bolton, a former TV news anchor and military affairs reporter, wrote of the lies Decider George and his cronies presented in getting the US involved in Iraq. There is…
Vice President Dufus Dick Cheney is way-more than an asshole, more a liar, thoughtless and corrupt and yesterday a bit of this horror came out in spades. Dufus Dick’s chief-of-ass-scratch, David Addington, paid a subpoeanaed visit to the US House Judiciary Committee and acted like his time was way-too precious to be wasted talking to…
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…
If Sen. Barack Obama becomes President Obama in November, all the change in the world, even all the king’s men and horses and US peoples may not be able to correct the horror. Although a smorgasbord of shredded Americana faces the next commander-in-chief, Iraq is like the unmovable object being hit by an unstoppable force.…