War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the waning days of Decider George’s grip on reality, events and disclosures reveal just how bad the past nearly-eight years have been — an ugly, multi-generational inheritance. If one is heartless and puts aside the shredding of the US Constitution, the legislative disaster for global warming and environmental issues, the political Karl Rove bullshit,…
In the long run, probably the biggest news story of the year so far is the unspoken one, a seemingly open secret. The New York Times expose a couple of weeks ago on the Pentagon’s public propaganda machine, enlisting retired military types to wax eloquent on TV news about the ongoing disasters in Iraq and…
As the Iraqi and Afghan wars continue, the frustration and horror of US GIs on the ground seems to have no bounds. Not only do they have to endure a violent and senseless situation every day, but they have to suffer double and triple for it, even after coming home. American and Iraqi forces in…
Now more than seven-and-a-half years later, the US has been sidelined from pursuing bad guys and instead is on a quagmire-like, downward spiral via a couple of savage sinkholes. Although a military strike into Afghanistan appeared to be logical move in the fall of 2001, original intent had been Iraq. “We will definitely have to…
A first read and seemingly nothing new. A few minutes, hours and now a couple of days to contemplate. The scenario now sickens us to the bowels. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s…
Just at dawn on Christianity’s most-holy day, rockets and mortor rounds slammed into Baghdad’s Green Zone. Time for the biggest blunder in history to begin its horrific draw down. The attack seemed to spark violent incidents all across Iraq, like a disjointed, ragged shock wave, although at first view might appear un-related: A suicide bomber at a police station in Mosul, leaving at least 17 dead;…
As 2008 A.D. un-gaily moves forward, Decider George is playing out his game in high drama. Although cavorting all over the planet the last few months, he and his cohort, Dufus Dick Cheney, have sealed themselves into a self-created, highly-hardened ‘bunker mentality’ — reminds one of an old Phillip K. Dick novel (we cannot remember the title) in which just about all these…
March 19, 2003: Today five years ago. Better yet is yesterday five years ago. Then there was still a chance, a flicker of a remote possibility something could have stopped the horror from happening; a 24-hour window for a back-to-the future trek to rescue the world from the clutches of crazy people. Alas, however, the day is…
Even in a clenched-teeth lie, Decider George is incapable of talking straight. In a press conference Thursday, amid a gaggle of bullshit about the failing economy, Decider George waded into the current presidential race, offering a back-stabbing, fear-mongering, twisted-history view of Barack Obama’s position during the debate this week of withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but…
As in the recent disclosures on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Decider George has been lying out of his ass for a long time. Probably once he discovered Santa Claus was a lie, he understood the need to continue the effort. Asked if an inquiry would be held after British troops withdraw, David Miliband, the Foreign…