War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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…
One of our most-favorite of Iraq peoples is the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Beyond looking like a way-sedated Jack Black with a beard, Moqtada carries enormous political clout, and also has the armed capability to back up the rhetoric, attributes in a country not a real country anymore, but now a series of cells…
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…
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…
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…
“This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes… Remember, all I’m…
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…
In the 230-plus-year history of the US, it was bound to happen. One as cynical as us might have figured it would happen before now, before communications opened up governmental processes to a more public scrutiny, yet no real real-ugly hi-jinks until this current administration jackbooted into power. Dick Nixon was a Boy Scout compared…
In an ugly sense of an unconscious daydream, another natural tragedy has struck the US with its leader again out to lunch, or in this case, dinner: About 36,000 Iowans were evacuated because of statewide flooding, 24,000 of them in Cedar Rapids. The massive flooding has overwhelmed the city — which is in a 500-year…
In the few months left to him as king of the world, Decider George is seeking out his nemesis, the biggest bogeyman of them all — Osama bin Laden. President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House. Defence and…