War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In another attempt to pinch-out a phrase for the times, President Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid this morning with a stirring, “It begins with us,” planted on his official site at barackobama.com. I knew 2008 personally, and this ain’t 2008. From CNN: Shortly afterward, Obama sent an e-mail to supporters to say he will…
In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway bus of a 24-hour news cycle. However, death is still there as six US GIs were killed Tuesday in eastern…
In observation, however, it’s not flies in the ointment that really matters, but worms in the can, which once opened, spews forth something way ugly, slimy and gross. And this little adventure now ongoing in Libya has all the makings of one nasty can. Hillary Clinton begs to differ: As international forces launched attacks against…
Is this a back-home by-product of a horrifying nightmare called Afghanistan? An ‘award winning’ veteran loses his shit: An enraged Seymour man shot his mother and tried to shoot his father Tuesday night after the couple refused to acknowledge their son as the reincarnated Jesus, Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole said. Cole said one mystery…
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.“ – Bill Copeland (Illustration found here). In an interview Tuesday in the New York Times, David Petraeus blew smoke up the ass of history, a procedure that the good general is most good: “The momentum of the Taliban has been halted in much of the country…
What the shit is the US doing, thinking? Even after nearly a decade on the ground in Afghanistan, the war there has gone beyond insane. (Illustration found here). Warfare should have at least some semblance of sense, though, the horror of it stretches one’s mind, but the main objective, one would think, would be to…
“I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad,†said one US businessman active in Iraq since 2003. — Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 2/16/09 (Illustration found here). War crimes means more than what one would think. An official study…
As the massive unrest in Libya continues into its eighth day on Tuesday — reportedly more than 230 people have been killed so far — and despite declaring he’s still in control, Moammar Gadhafi is reaching the point of no return — meaning he’s about to flee Libya without a chance of returning. The popular…
In the annals of warfare there’s most-likely not been a most-obvious display of immoral lying than the case of George Jr.’s adventure into Iraq. Not only 4,436 US military people have been killed, nearly 33,000 wounded (estimates there top 100,000, not including the number of GIs suffering from PTSD and other problems), the illegal, murderous…
As simple as one, two — bye, bye. (Illustration found here). As events in Egypt reach once again a kind of flash point Friday after Hosni Mubarak showed himself as mentally-unhinged in not only not stepping aside, down or in some kind of way displaying a sense he needs to get the shit out of…