War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Warriors in that happy-go-lucky city-state of ancient Sparta either can back with their shield, or on it. Veterans from US wars, however, especially those from the little-horrors currently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have no protective shields to ride back home. US Veteran’s Affairs has been just piling up those shields and shredding them. Department of…
Last evening, the US Senate passed Bailout Part Two with some so-called “sweetners” to soothe the savage throats of House Republicans who shot down Bailout One two days ago, and to keep the hole-of-an-ass financial situation in the presidential campaign, both Jackboot John McCain and Barack Obama voted for it amid little speeches with bowl-clenching…
This afternoon, reports surfaced of a little dust-up between US-led forces and Pakistani troops. Although there’s been no US confirmation, supposedly US and Afghan GIs exchanged fire with Pakistani guards near/on/at the border between the two countries. From antiwar.com: NATO has issued a statement today saying that Pakistan troops opened fire on two helicopters near…
Amazing how much is going on right now — a mother of a financial meltdown, a most-bizarre presidential election inundated with so much rhetorical, nonsensical bullshit, oil prices acting bi-polar, even global warming is apparently worse than just this past weekend. Global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions of tons of methane escape from beneath…
UPDATE: This now Tuesday evening and it might appear the story posted below might/might-not be bogus. Interesting tale to it. Link to counterpunch.org listed below has been broken. The story now can be found here. The story seems true to me — fits Jackboot John’s real-life profile of nasty-mouth asshole that’s been published in the…
In the wake of the bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel — killing from 53 to 60 people, depending on the news outlet — the crisis in making war in Afghanistan comes under a deeper blanket of loss, a war that in the end will be un-winnable. Today, US helicopters were fired on again — the…
As the nation seemingly ponders the application of lipstick on various barnyard animals and the financial IED on Wall Street, long-simmering Afghanistan has finally boiled over onto Pakistan. Near seven years ago, this little conflict was indeed a “slam dunk” win — the original Taliban routed, Osama and a few of his boys corralled in…
As the absolute horror of Jackboot John McCain sitting in the Oval office becomes much-more intense with each passing white-collar lipstick smear the real repugnance lies in death and killing and suffering from the Tigris and Euphrates to the south Texas coastline. And what about his Number One? Earmark Sarah Palin will be worse than…
As I drove my oldest daughter to work Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, we discussed her upcoming marriage to a guy then in the Navy stationed in Virginia. She was concerned about his safety being in the military service. Even after seven years, I remember the reply: “He’ll be okay, he’ll be fine — unless there’s…
As the bungled, terrible wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to kill and maim US troops, the return home can be just as tedious and terrifying as the war zones. As of yesterday, 4,151 US GIs have died in Iraq since the invasion in March 2003 while 582 servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan, where…