"Shock and Awe" -- The most sick and vicious act of utter cowardice in modern history.

[ConsAreLiars]

Yes, I know that at the core it was a decision by the global capitalist caste to extend their economic domination and their geopolitical/imperial power.

But many of those who were inside the White House have commented on the widespread sense of panic that followed the realization that they might be held to account for having let the attacks of 9/11 succeed. (Well, the writers just say they were in a state of panic after 9/11, not why.) And then they began a campaign of terrifying the people of this country into a blind unthinking panic and sense of helplessness.

So the mass murder of Iraqis, the invasion and occupation, something they had wanted from day one, was further motivated by the fear of those in power being exposed for the criminal enterprise they were, and they gained the consent of most of those they governed, using and reinforcing the utter craven cowardice of the right-wing sickos as a method of control.

From the most conniving and cynical operatives at the top to the most pathetic and ignorant dittohead at the bottom, the war crime known originally as O.I.L. was based on a cowardice of the worst sort.

Mike Malloy, as he has on each anniversary of the initiation of this murderous invasion, played several minutes of the massive bombing and mass killings that was labeled "Shock and Awe" and celebrated universally by the corporatists' propaganda machinery.

Here is a posting on youtube from Malloy's program last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6n9MDj4ijI

What a putrid, vile, cowardly and evil act.

[valerief]

1. The arrogance of these criminals, from launching their attack on 9-11 and

naming it 911 to naming their fake war O.I.L. (as you note), they must have been giddy with their coup.

[glitch]

20. So many people still lap up their lies, their arrogance is not surprising.

Still grotesque though.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Two things that really stick in my mind...

1.) They way the media lapped it all up. They couldn't wait for those bombs to drop. It was
such a disgusting, perverse vile display of cheerleading for murder, that I have ever seen. While
innocent Iraqi men, women and children were being blown to bits--our media was acting as if they
were watching an exciting video game.

2.) When Donald Rumsfeld stood in the ashes, after the bombing, and was defensive and condescending
when a reporter asked him about civilian casualties. Rumsfeld said that we have no idea "the amount
of care we put into these bombings." Angered that he even had to answer the question, Rumsfeld insisted
that those bombings were humane and that the killings were justified and done with "care."

It's just too much to even contemplate.

I don't know how those bastard pukes live with themselves.

[Marr]

5. I know exactly what you mean, and I couldn't agree more.

It reminded me of the passage in 1984, where Winston Smith goes to a movie and they show graphic footage of people on rafts being machine gunned, and the crowd cheers. It was sickening.

[democracy1st]

6. yes it was like we were suppose to sit on our couch and watch it like a video game!

and then strut around like we're big and bad,what bs

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. The only channel I could stand to watch was Newsworld International

the one that Al Gore, to his everlasting ignominy, bought to turn into The Current.

NWI was a good news source because it used mostly Canadian newscasts, and unlike the Americans and Brits, Canada was not involved in the invasion. Even BBC was cheerleading for the invasion.

That is why it is imperative that we bring the troops home as soon as possible, not redeploy them to Afghanistan, where they're not wanted either.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. And don't forget how the corporate, media whores

and assorted establishment ass-kissers had a hearty chuckle as their war-criminal President, for the amusement of his audience, pretended to look for the non-existent WMDs under the White House carpets.

[glitch]

21. I don't think they do live with themselves. I think their souls have left their bodies

in disgust.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I was horrified at what we were (and still are) doing to the people of Iraq

whose only *crime* was living under the thumb of an awful dictator/regime that our own dictator/regime didn't like.

[PerfectSage]

4. Thanks for posting thatI remember thinking This is going to probably going to turn into Viet Nam 2

The delicious irony is: July 2002 right shoulder Oct 2002 head and March 2003 left shoulder of an upside down head and shoulder bear market to bull market reversal pattern that has now turned into an asset inflation bubble that burst.

Aw well. Fuck You George the uselesss whore Bush.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnxBA7qLjU

[BlooInBloo]

7. "the most" might be going a bit far, but yah.

[Kickin_Donkey]

10. What I found more sickening ...

one of the most odious things I have seen in my lifetime -- were TV shots of dumbass Americans cheering at video footage of Baghdad going up in smoke and flames. Like it was a football game. Innocent people vaporized in that cataclysm. And Americans in bars cheering while watching CNN. Vile cowards.

[BuyingThyme]

11. Terrorism and Terrorism.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. ...and it has yet to stop.

WHEN did Mr. President say the "war" was gonna be wound down? How many years from now?

:cry:

[JDPriestly]

13. The horror of the AIG bonuses pales in comparison.

[aquart]

14. So you completely missed World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam?

Then there was that Tet thing, all the disappeared in South America, Uganda, Rwanda, the Hutus and Tutsis, oh my...and I bet you never thought a minute about Serbia, Croatia, and Albania, did you?

Or the armless kids where the conflict diamonds come from?

It's a nice rage you have, but it reeks of insularity.

[ConsAreLiars]

15. Well. the fact that you pleasure yourself by fantasizing about the murder of Rachel Corrie

and gloating over it is enough to regard you as something rather less than a guide to basic human decency. Plus the4 fact that that the corporatists you defend were complicit in all of those cases. You support the massacre of Palestinians and defend the monsters who murdered a million or more in Iraq. At least you are consistent, for whatever that might be worth.

[Bonobo]

16. You said it perfectly. Cowardly and evil. Vile and putrid. K&R.

And they still don't have water and children are still dying of cholera and dysentery. They will never forgive us, nor should they.

[olegramps]

17. It just another sad case of the masses being brain washed by propaganda.

Americans were just as throughly misled by the corporate controlled media as the Germans were misled by their Nazi propagandists. They swallowed the line just as the Germans had when the Nazis launched their preemptive wars of conquest to protect the homeland. Most Americans, mothers, fathers and children sat on their couches enjoying snacks as they watched a country with no air force or navy and at best a rag tag military being bombed into the dark ages with the most advanced weapons in the history of mankind. It was nothing more than a rerun of the destruction of Poland. Shock and Awe was only a more advanced version of the German Blitzkrieg that inaugurated modern warfare in which the civilians and cities are targeted for destruction.

The most unfortunate thing that has taken place within my life time is seeing the independent voices of reason silenced. The Fourth Estate, upon which a viable democracy is dependent, has evaporated within a generation. Although the WEB has provided a degree of objectivity in this vacuum, it also has become a source to spread misinformation just as successfully and it can be a source of objective information.

I would like someone to explain to me just what is the difference between the German youth who were brainwashed into believing that they were patriotic defenders of the Fatherland and our young people who have been recruited into our military forces. Like the German youth, they have been convinced that they are serving a noble purpose in bringing democracy to the Middle East at the point of a bayonet. How were they convinced that the destruction of cities and the maiming and killing of thousands of innocent victims is a glorious cause and they can delude themselves that they have benefited their fellow mankind? It is totally bizarre. I am not too enthused about this all volunteer army. I fear that it can too easily be misused to pursue catastrophic misadventures.

[Winterblues]

18. To me another "Shock and Awe" is the NET Profit Exxon has made since the invasion

Exxon has made for six straight years now Over One Hundred Million Dollars a DAY If that isn't worthy of AWE and Shock I don't know what is. That is money in their pocket, after every single expense has been paid. After every tax, after every paycheck, after every single expense is paid they still put in their pockets OVER One Hundred MILLION dollars a DAY, a Friggin DAY...every single day, day in and day out, week after week, month after month, year after year..I am in complete Shock and Awe over this accomplishment.

[ConsAreLiars]

19. just a kick (nt)

[Naturyl]

22. Kick.