Donald Rumsfeld: Watch This
Here’s a report by CNN’s Arwa Damon on what life is like in Iraq today, ten years after the U.S. invasion. Donald Rumsfeld should watch it, given his delusional tweet Tuesday about “liberating”...
View ArticleIran Wins the U.S. War on Iraq
(Image via FrameWork.LATimes.com) $2.2 trillion and who knows how many hundreds of thousands of deaths later, this is what happened in Iraq today: BAGHDAD – Secretary of State John Kerry pressed...
View ArticleToday is National Let’s-BS-Ourselves-Into-Thinking-George W....
I saw W. being interviewed on CNN this morning ahead of the opening of his presidential library later today. The dude was so nonchalant; he shrugged his shoulders and said, “Meh, history will be the...
View ArticleRemember When the Bush IRS Went After a Liberal Minister for One Sermon?
Just sayin’ folks. Let’s not forget that the Bush administration did some pretty reprehensible things with the IRS too: (Rev. Ed Bacon via Oprah.com) Stepping up its probe of allegedly improper...
View ArticleAbout That Rolling Stone Cover
The biggest thing here in the USofA today has to do with the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine: The cover story is about how “The [Boston] bomber” Jahar Tsarnaev (above) was a...
View Article29% of Louisianans Think Barack Obama Responsible For Slow Response to...
Remember Hurricane Katrina, the hurricane that hit the Gulf coast in 2005? And remember Barack Obama, the guy who didn’t take office until January, 2009? (Image via Wikipedia) Fast forward to today...
View ArticleLiz Cheney Carries on the Family Tradition of Easy Lying
Her dad helped lie the United States into a war that killed thousands and thousands of people so Liz Cheney had quite a teacher when it comes to lying: (Image via Wikimedia.org) U.S. Senate candidate...
View ArticleUnderstanding White Privilege
The March on Washington happened on August 28, 1963, (Image via CapitolHillHistory.org) and oh my god, I can’t believe we’re going to have to do it again 50 years later. Here’s a little slice of what...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush Honored for “Improving the Human Condition” Tonight in Denver
(Image Eric Draper via Wikimedia Commons) What’s up is down, what’s down is up: The decision by the University of Denver to honor former President George W. Bush at a DU fundraiser has been...
View Article12 Years Into the Afghan War, Hamid Karzai Assures the World Stoning Will Not...
You mean to tell me we’ve spent how many lives and how many bazillion dollars in Afghanistan and the most optimistic thing its president has to say lo these many years on is that they won’t stone...
View ArticleDick Cheney’s Creepy Choice of Words
(Image via Wikimedia Commons) Dick’s daughter Liz is running for the senate in Wyoming. Stooping to kissing the ass of her base, Liz came out against gay marriage. Her gay sister, who got married...
View ArticlePsycho George W. Bush is Probably Sleeping Like a Baby Tonight
Remember shock and awe? (I’m proud to say I was against the invasion of Iraq from day one.) Remember how excited the “liberal media” was when shock and awe started? Seriously. Watch this video. It’s...
View ArticleThis Thinking Will Follow George W. Bush For Eternity
Poor George. I think this is how he’ll be remembered…forever: (Image Youssef Kobo on Twitter) More… Filed under: George W. Bush and Co., President Barack H. Obama and Co.
View ArticleHow Could John Kerry Say This With a Straight Face?
(Image via Wikipedia) There is no way the United States can say a thing like this ever, from now, until the end of time: Kerry Condemns Russia’s ‘Incredible Act of Aggression’ in Ukraine U.S. Secretary...
View ArticleShock and Awe — 11th Years and $4 Trillion Later
This happened 11 years ago tonight: Watch it. I’m serious. It’s amazing how much pleasure CNN got from showing live video of bombs blowing people up. I remember thinking how thrilled Americans would...
View ArticleBaghdad: Now the World’s Worst City
(Image via Terrill Tailfeathers on Twitter) Once an Arab Model, Baghdad Now World’s Worst City BAGHDAD – As recently as the 1970s, Baghdad was lauded as a model city in the Arab world. But now, after...
View ArticleObama’s Getting Ready to Kill Net Neutrality
I think Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was the biggest scam ever. Put another way, I was an idiot to vote for the guy. This would be Obama in 2007: This would be Obama today: Apparently net neutrality...
View ArticleEleven Years Ago: Remembering How Insane We Were on “Mission Accomplished” Day
Remember this? That was eleven years ago today. Greg Mitchell wrote an e-book about media coverage in the run-up to and the early months of the Iraq war. Today he reminds us of how the corporate media...
View ArticleAfter the U.S. Government Spent Billions of Our Tax Dollars “Training” the...
This is where we are today: This is an incredibly striking sentence from The Guardian‘s coverage of the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)’s takeover of Iraq’s second...
View ArticleFamilies of Those Killed in Iraq Say: Don’t Go Back in Obama
(US troops in Iraq after an IED explosion. 2007. Image via Wikimedia Commons.) So heartbreaking: Iraq Turmoil Troubles Parents of Dead GIs For the parents of U.S. service men and women who died in...
View ArticlePetition: Appoint George W. Bush Ambassador to Iraq
In a perfect world George W. Bush would be in prison for war crimes but I would settle for this: From the White House’s petition site: (Image: Petitions.WhiteHouse.gov) Nominate former President...
View ArticleRepublicans Hawking an “I Miss W” T-Shirt
Really? REALLY? Just about all of this is horse shit: President George W. Bush led our nation through some of the most challenging moments of our nation’s history — and we miss him and his...
View ArticleWhat With His Bionic Heart, Will Dick Cheney be Around to Lie About Iraq...
My Tweet of the Day: Cheney Has Heart Pump but no Pulse.Filed under: George W. Bush and Co.
View ArticleThe American Military Industrial Complex is Smiling Tonight!
I read something a few weeks back about how ISIS in Iraq has commandeered a huge amount of military equipment we paid for with Our Tax Dollars during the 2013 invasion. The supposed “training” of the...
View Article550 Million U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Spent On “Operations” in Iraq, June 16 –...
Iraq war protest, January 27, 2007 (Image Wikimedia Commons) Iraq has become a money pit but I can only imagine the tiny fraction of Americans who will come to know this fact (thanks “liberal media!”):...
View ArticleStopping ISIS — Way Harder Than it Sounds
(Image via Airforce.com) Stopping ISIS? Way harder than it sounds, i.e., what the hell are we getting ourselves into: Even limited success for this new effort, analysts say, hinges on an unenviable...
View ArticleDick Cheney As Wise Republican Elder Statesman
(Image via Wikimedia Commons) You probably heard that House Republicans brought Dick Cheney in for a meeting yesterday so he — yes, he, most recently of blundered Iraq war fame — could strategize with...
View ArticleThe United States Shows the World’s Countries How to Oppress Their Citizens
(Image via Wikipedia) It’s my belief that when the United States, in the hysteria after 9/11 and continuing until today, implemented the “security state” measures it did, it gave the green light to...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush: Still Clueless
(Image via Wikipedia) George W. Bush apparently believes he’d have been elected president even if he’d been a John Doe born in Harlem because he was just so damn good he “earned” his way into politics....
View Article$81 Million of Our Tax Dollars Went to Two Psychologists Who Designed Torture...
For the last few hours I’ve been sitting at my computer reading the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on the CIA’s interrogation program and various tweets and short articles about what...
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