According to a report in the Washington Post, “Go Bigâ€, “Go Longâ€,
“Go Shortâ€, are the options initially put forward by the US military
with regard to halting the collapse of Iraq into all-out civil war.
These phrases are usually uttered by sports announcers during football
season, it is nice to know that they can be applied to [...]
Unfortunately for Republicans in this midterm election, voters did not
ignore the criminal behavior, blind support for the Iraq war fiasco and
complete lack of fiscal discipline exhibited by congress. As it turns out,
Americans were very unhappy with those politicians who seemed to be in
touch only with themselves.
It seems that the party of patriotism and [...]
Poor John Kerry, or should I spell it “Jon Carryâ€, as the banner painted by
our mentally challenged troops in Iraq reads, he just loves the taste of his
silver-plated loafers.
The NY Post had a field day with Kerry’s latest blunder. A photo of the
Minnesota National Guard unit’s response to the senator’s bungled joke was
plastered [...]
Vladimir Putin has described the Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya, killed recently in a 1990’s style mafia hit, as
an “extremely insignificant†writer, according to the Washington
Post. The term “immensely inconvenient†would be much closer
to Putin’s genuine attitude toward reporters such as Politkovskaya,
who dare to reveal the ugly realities of the war in Chechnya.
Mr. Putin and his KGB [...]
The president said today that we are not going to take sides in the
sectarian battles raging in Iraq, and we are not to act as cannon
fodder in the battle between Shiites and Sunnis, Kurds and Sunnis,
and the rival Shiite groups battling each other as they strive for
increased political influence on the streets of Iraq.
Meanwhile, the [...]