Posts tagged "Iraq"
Bomb Appétit
Thursday, January 18, 2018
In a time of unprecedented plenty, as well as an ability to meet the basic needs of every person on Earth, America’s number one material and cultural export remains warfare…
The New Normal
Monday, December 18, 2017
An audience ever-more informed about what happens in the government, despite concerted efforts on both sides of the aisle to keep them ignorant, has appropriately reacted with horror and revulsion, now that the executive in charge is a man-child with no filter…
Losing Our Heads
Saturday, September 20, 2014
The darkly absurd, feedback loop-type relationship between terrorist actions and U.S. military responses…
World Wrestling
Thursday, March 27, 2014
International superpowers, like the US and Russia, express the “superiority” of their respective cultures, economies, or systems of government, by using smaller, less-powerful countries, like Iraq and Ukraine, as the venues for gaudy, muscle-flexing sideshows…
The War Room
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Tags: 9/12 Fox, aerial surveillance, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bible, Big Board, bomb, Curveball, D&D, dice, Doctor Strangelove, elephant, Fox, General Buck Turgidson, gold, GOP, GOP elephant, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Joe Biden, Krusty the Clown, Leon Panetta, military intelligence, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapons, nuke, nuke club, nukes, Obama, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, satellite photo, war room
Yeah, This Won’t Backfire…
Saturday, December 31, 2011
A famous photograph of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam began circulating on the web shortly before the more recent Iraq invasion, and has become symbolic of the folly of giving strongman dictators guns and an expense account for the Military Industrial Complex all-you-can-eat bonanza, not to mention the irony of having those very weapons turned against the US and its allies shortly afterwards…
Fuzzy Aim
Friday, May 6, 2011
I’m not going to mourn the loss of an evil, mass-murdering psychopath, of course, but I do find the bloodlust reflected in many of my countrymens’ jubilant celebrations disappointing and dangerously short-sighted, though not all that surprising…
Learning from Past Mistakes
Friday, April 8, 2011
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, black sites, Bush, Camp Delta, Camp X-Ray, cheat, cheat sheet, cheater, cheaters, cheating, dunce, dunce cap, enhanced interrogation techniques, Executive Privilege, George W. Bush, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Iraq occupation, Iraq War, military tribunals, Obama, President Bush, President Obama, rendition, school, test, Torture, W., war, war on terror
Hot Rod
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Tags: car bomb, car keys, car wreck, grand theft auto, Iraq, Iraq War, Uncle Sam
Circular Reasoning
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tags: Escher, George W. Bush, impossible staircase, Iraq, Iraq War, M.C. Escher, penrose stairs, support our troops, troops, US troops, war