War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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…
Irony can sometimes be just the black residue of a lie. Since Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George has spent US peoples’ money like there was literally no tomorrow. And most of this cash flowed to the Middle East in pursuit of the perfect war. Now the out-stretched hand comes beckoning. This would be absolutely hilarious…
Here it is Friday before the famous Memorial Day weekend — once the party-igniting start to a summer of beer and chicks in halter tops — but now it’s on to $4 a gallon gas and a world shattered by shit-heads in power. One of the most pointed writers/performers is Garrison Keillor, of “A Prairie…
As chin-strap, ramrod-retro, surge-happy US Army Gen. David Petraeus slips through his Senate confirmation hearings this morning, Iraq is slipping further into the surreal. Last month, Decider George picked Petraeus out of a crowd, a total stranger, (ironic sarcasm, we have you know!) and then nominated him to replace Navy Adm. William J. Fallon as…
Christians in the land of Islam. Not only did the holier-than-thou armies of the West invade Iraq, but the religion’s hypocrisy was sucked along with it. Trapped in an inferno, US GIs perform like the false, twisted logic that put them there. An American sniper has been sent home from Iraq for using a copy…