A Trip to Bush’s Fantasy Land
Here is a kind of scary excerpt from a George Bush interview with German TV: Q Do you think there’s a point where you’d say only a military option is a possibility for us? THE PRESIDENT: I would never...
View ArticleDEATH BY FIRE: POLITICS AND TAXES
A fire in Gloucester, Massachusetts last night destroyed an apartment building and a synagogue and killed a 70-year-old disabled man. The fire broke out across the street from the city’s fire station...
View ArticleIRAQ: THE MYTH OF THE SURGE
‘Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it’s gonna happen?” Mrs. Bush declared. ”It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” –...
View ArticleIraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Senator McCain
Recent and ongoing events in Pakistan and Afghanistan highlight in new ways the disastrous effects of the United States’ misguided Iraq invasion and the delusionary nature of Senator McCain’s...
View ArticleCampaign Update: The Candidate of Sarcasm
As the campaign continues its endless stroll through the backwaters of American thought, the contrasting styles of the Obama and McCain campaigns is striking. While Obama tries to discuss serious...
View ArticleRobert Byrd, RIP
“If I wanted to go crazy, I’d do it in Washington, where they wouldn’t know the difference.” Senator Robert Byrd Robert Byrd was a man of considerable contradictions. A former member of the Ku Klux...
View ArticleIRAQ: Dreams vs. Realities
In Iraq, brief triumph subsided through criminal incompetence into fractured mayhem, leaving more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead and concluding in the fluid uncertainty of sporadic violence and...
View ArticleThe Slandering of Chuck Hagel
The United States Senate, once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body”, has become a stage for narcissistic Republican poseurs and clowns. The Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on...
View ArticleCanada joins up
No doubt it was no big story out in the big world when Canada’s ruling conservative government – with both main opposition parties opposing – announced last week that they would seven jets to the...
View ArticleA Response to FLAMING BOMBADiER
Why was Iraq in 2003 not a “vital American interest” while in 2014 it is. Bush certainly made an awful mistake in his judgment, no doubt aided by lousy advisors, but the US is once again attacking in...
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