Shock and Awe is underway. Huge explosions in Baghdad. Possible B-2 bombers used.
'Shock and Awe' underway
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Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism. In 2004, I moved to Iraq, where I would spend the next two years. It was a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. But I've since moved on to Beirut and the wider region. I now report for a variety of outlets.
That was scary and intense. It’s amazing what we will do to get rid of one thug…I can only hope the Iraqi people had enough warning to get the hell out of Bagdad.
has an opportunity just been missed? had we decided to play “chicken” and kept marching steadily toward Baghdad, with minimal casualties, using shock & awe as a threat, would the Special Republican Guard have blinked first?
the “where is raed” blogger (who lives in baghdad) said he heard on the street that b52 bombers were on their way “in 2 hours” ….. hasn’t updated since then… which was a lot of hours ago.
Salam is likely asleep. It really is late over there at the moment. No civilian sites were hit, only “presidential palaces” and military targets.
My guess is that he is fine. :) Hope he is anyway.
Basrah just fell. The iRaqi 51st division just surrendered.
What is shock an awe?
I was reading how there has been little trouble on our side in the war so far, and I can’t help but wonder if they have another shoe to drop.
Just saw on CBS this morning….the term shock and awe was taken from a book published in 1996 by a now retired Army General. After the Persian Gulf War, he and others concluded there is a better way to fight a war….to use intimidation and phsycological tatics to get the opposition to surrender instead of having to kill.
Shock and awe actually goes even farther back, to WWII. Please see: Thom Hartmann’s “When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History” on his site: Strike the Root, where he recounts Hitler’s rise to power, showing remarkable similarities to our Bush’s rise to Chief of State.
The parallels are like railroad tracks.
Guaranteed to shiver yer timbers.
Shock and awe comes from further back in history. Please see: “When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History”, by Thom Hartmann, 3/16/03, www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm
a MUST-read for anyone that is trying to make sense out of: what is happening to our country, how Bush became our Commander-In-Chief, how we ended up going to war in Iraq.
Hartmann, an author who lived in Germany for a decade, writes about how Hitler sneaked into power, convinced his nation they were under terrorist threat and mass-hypnotized the nation into believing that they had to go war to protect their country and liberate the oppressed (Austria).
The parallels are eery.
oops, sorry about that. disregard first, read second.
(too many links! too many links! would that I had another 3 pair of eyes….)
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