Blowback American Style
January 8, 2008Smoke and mirrors continue to embody the war in Iraq. Even as New Hampshire residents go to the polls today for the first primary of the 2008 presidential race, the slaughter in the Mid East…
Category Archives: War & Politics
Homeward Bound — Not!
January 3, 2008“One can only wonder, now that the United States has ‘liberated’ Iraq from Saddam Hussein, just who will liberate Iraq from the United States.” — Raed Jarrar, Iraq consultant at the Public Policy Office of…
Cannon Fodder
January 2, 2008EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Darcy Woodke recalled the day she picked up her husband and several of his National Guard buddies after they got back from Iraq. “I stopped at a four-way stop sign. I…
Despite The Surge
January 1, 2008Still, six years after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, violence persists in much of southern Afghanistan where the government has little presence, and recent militant attacks in Pakistan highlight a long-term regional problem with al-Qaida and…
Cover Up the Curveball
December 26, 2007As 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…
Dollars, Dollars, Where Them Dollars
December 21, 2007On Wednesday Congess approved an additonal $70 billion for the horror in Iraq and Afghanistan, knocking the total up to $700 billion. “Using inflation-adjusted dollars the total cost of those wars has now surpassed the…
Misplaced ‘the forgotten war’
December 16, 2007Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development, according to…
Shredder Header
December 15, 2007Although Decider George’s horrifying time as chief asshole still has another year to run, all evidence of the lies, the backstabbing and dirty-tricks will apparently end up as recycled bits of confetti: Federal spending on…
NIE Means NUTS!
December 6, 2007“Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon. What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?” — Decider George…
Iraq Attack!
November 3, 2007Upon receiving the not-altogether-hideous news, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was reportedly optimistic, but could not predict a realistic time frame in which the overall conditions in Iraq would become the opposite of terrifying, or even…