War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. The bomb in the western province of Farah targeted…
Although Decider George reportedly majored in history at Yale, we all know what he did was party. People who major in things like history, usually also like to read. Decider George is not a book-kind-of-guy. He’s more into strutting, and saying dumb-ass things like telling Scott McClellan they’d end up pals years from now, all…
In order to get through each and every day, many of us medicated ourselves to cope. Whatever: A glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks, or smoke a bowl — means seems to justify the end. How about each and every day there’s horror, death and destruction? Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health…
If Sen. Barack Obama becomes President Obama in November, all the change in the world, even all the king’s men and horses and US peoples may not be able to correct the horror. Although a smorgasbord of shredded Americana faces the next commander-in-chief, Iraq is like the unmovable object being hit by an unstoppable force.…
A strong, coherent voice, crying in the wilderness has gone. William E. Odom, 75, a retired Army lieutenant general who was a senior military and intelligence official in the Carter and Reagan administrations and who, in recent years, became a forceful critic of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died May 30 at his vacation home…
In watching the world spin away its last few hours, we wondered (not aloud as we were alone) about whether history will continue or maybe would soon change direction and leave no sign of this generation’s passing. And all those who led up to this generation. History’s root comes in the unfolding of three Greek…
White House colleagues were stunned, but not lacking for the day’s response. “We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew,” said Dana Perino, the current press secretary who was first hired by McClellan as a deputy. Later in the day, she relayed the reaction of Bush himself: “He’s puzzled, he…
In the waning days of Decider George’s grip on reality, events and disclosures reveal just how bad the past nearly-eight years have been — an ugly, multi-generational inheritance. If one is heartless and puts aside the shredding of the US Constitution, the legislative disaster for global warming and environmental issues, the political Karl Rove bullshit,…
Just a couple of news items that caught our eye this morning: I think there is so much that is disturbing in the documents, the fact that they lied to us to begin with — and you know, when you are lied to and you see discrepancies, it just makes you more concerned and confused…
As another Memorial Day three-day weekend draws to a close, the oratories reported given across the country by anyone remotely attached to Decider George’s government makes one want to spew junks. In a time of war, especially with the Iraqi war so widely held to be a disaster, “a debacle,” a slaughterhouse of errors, any…