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Sunday, March 23, 2003
This is what "Shock and Awe" looks like
One of the truly sickening aspects of this war has been the Bush regime's promise of "shock and awe". According to one report, a media figure, anxious for the much touted "shock and awe" that will descend on the Iraqi people, quizzed the Bush administration as to whether the bombings of the initial day had been 'it'. The answer was that if you have to ask, then it wasn't "shock and awe". Ha. Ha.
For those of us who don't know, the following are photos of what the US government's "shock and awe" looks like. They are photos taken by the Qatari TV station, al-Jazeera and broadcast throughout the Arab world and beyond. Viewing the war through the sanitized filter of CNN or FOX, one is completely insulated from the effects of this war. It's easy to forget whilst we are caught up in technical wizardry of MOABs and so forth, that ultimately their effect is to produce the kind of result that is so vividly shown in these photos.