War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
One definition-aspect of the word, theatrical, is deeds marked by pretense or artificiality of emotion. Our entangled mess of a planet nowadays is becoming a very-astutely-written piece of theater, a play of many acts and performers — the plot is of a horrible, anti-tragicomedy. And the end is as the French do, ‘finis.’ In this…
Another lost opportunity for Decider George. Even as he holds out a shocking, back-stabbing fig leaf to Iran, the original intent with the late-great Global War on Terror in Afghanistan is going to shit in a wire basket. Just in the last few days, the situation on the ground there has quickly quick-sanded into a…
A little legal note in the shadows of Decider George’s Iraqi adventure. Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, in a tape-recorded interview with a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, said he and Sgt. Ryan Weemer were ordered by Sgt. Jose Nazario to kill the prisoners as the Marines swept through a neighborhood in Fallouja in late 2004. Several…
A shitload of stuff the US says and then does is an outright lie, or at best, a stance hidden behind a forest of double-standards. Case in full point: Cluster bombs. These little bits of long-term horror have been used repeatedly by all the world’s military since the Russians introduced the Germans to its capabilities…
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…
The war in Iraq is a horror in which no US citizen is immune. In a well-presented op/ed in the Los Angeles Times last week, Cy Bolton, a former TV news anchor and military affairs reporter, wrote of the lies Decider George and his cronies presented in getting the US involved in Iraq. There is…
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…