From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 12:23:41 MDT
From: Robbie Lindauer
...What do you think "Shock and Awe" means from below?
The pretty pictures you see on TV of nice lights lighting up the desert
sky are really, every one of them, horrifying, evil and atrocious acts
of murder...
Not necessarily, Robbie. The actual causalty count from that
initial bombing was remarkably light. The midnight guided
bomb attack was targeted mostly on empty buildings and
artillery batteries. The Iraqi commanders (many of whom
were sympathetic to the US) had enough sense to order
their men away from those targets they knew would be
destroyed. There were a number of U.S. sympathizers or
Saddam haters on the ground in Baghdad with cells phones
and GPS, guiding the shots and reporting the outcomes.
Of course, Saddam and his crew placed the SAMs and
artillery among civilian population centers and
used Soviet GPS jammers to try to turn the bombing into
horrifying evil atrocious acts of murder, but the
sophisticated guided weapons still found their marks.
The real horrifying evil and atrocious acts of
murder are yet before us: the Muslim world seems
bent on a civil war of utter self destruction, as
demonstrated by yesterday's assassination of the
Shiite cleric al Hakkim. Over 100 innocents murdered
as collateral damage, just to get this one guy.
Watch in the next few weeks. I fear we will see a
murderous tit-for-tat in the middle east, one holy
site after another blown to bits, a clear expression of
homicidal Muslim self-hatred.
spike
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