War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
War correspondents are a relatively new entity on history’s battlefields, only since the middle of the 19th century have these adrenaline-driven reporters been around to point out foolish, fatal horrors of war. In the Crimean War (1853-1856), William Howard Russell is credited with being the world’s first battlefield reporter. Others followed, such as Winston Churchhill,…
Advice from fabricators and twisters of truth. The current White House people have produced “contingency plans” for President-Elect Obama in case some emergency might quickly pop up in the first few weeks of his administration, which in turn, creates the silly scenario of actually taking serious the managing director of the White Star Line. (Illustration…
Under the newly-approved SOFA arrangement in Iraq, US troops have to be out by 2011. This dovetails with President-Elect Obama’s 16-month commitment to pull the plug on the Iraqi misadventure, but the way things happen, this may or may not be the reality. Decider George’s Middle East entanglements leave a narrow window of opportunity to…
As the UK prepares to remove its Iraqi operations out in a couple of months — in a “humiliating” withdrawal — Decider George’s last visit to that ruined country this past weekend windows the disaster this past near-eight years has been. From a UK (Scottish) commentary: We can ask, nevertheless. What has it all been…
Quick and forceful: Decider George dodged and ducked more than some footware today. See the YouTube video here. (Illustration found here). Accordingly, one Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network, the guy above with the shoe in his up-raised hand, threw both his footwear at Decider George this evening during a press…
Even as the Pentagon is engaged in two badly-run wars — Iraq and Afghanistan — and militarily involved all kinds of wars in all kinds of superfluous ways, the chief weapons merchant for the world in all these engagements is the one supposedly spreading democracy — the US. Arming the planet keeps a certain part…
(Illustration — ‘Baghdad Sunset‘ — can be found here). Wikipedia has a good-as-any overall summation of the Iraqi war and can be found here, but there’s a shitload of other case studies of Decider George’s horror tale, just Google ‘Iraq War’ then sit back. In the last few months, however, the story has narrowed down…
Everything!! (Illustration found here). Just when you figured Decider George’s blundering for near-eight years was all in the big stuff — Iraq, Katrina, the economy — think once, and maybe even think twice more. According to Raw Story this morning, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a non-profit investigative journalism group which recently “set out…
Decider George went around blubbering last week about how the CIA screwed way-up over Iraqi WMD: Sorry about that, “just wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” The intel was different, asshole. It just wasn’t war material. Based upon curveball information, goaded by an Iraqi expatriate and doing as the Brits reported: “…the intelligence…
Ironic horror-humor: Not funny in the smallest bit. In fact, the cartoon below creates a vast pissed-offed affect/effect when one ponders the lying words of damn-dumb Don Rumsfeld: “As you know, you go to war with the Army you have…not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” Just micro-seconds…