i think most of the world were pretty shocked before the first bomb landed, tbh.

Of course this catastrophe broke so many hearts. Although it should never be forgotten, I find the way that this sift is introduced and then framed to be offensive.

brknphoenix wrote in my profile: "Sorry, I guess I forgot to add the bias. I suppose if I had added "the war sucks, just look at what a terrible president Bush is, those poor people" you would have deemed it unoffensive and not down-voted?"

But I think it's more appropriate to respond here.

You are assuming that my opposition to war is a partisan 'repugnocrat vs demagoglican' issue - which in itself is quite disturbing, and yet instructional. The truth is when I read your "boom" tagline and your chipper "get ready for explosions!" I felt like vomiting. So I have no choice but to inform you how it is that some people have never stopped being keenly aware, since the horrible day this new US war began, that there are real men, women, and children suffering in Iraq. There were countless thousands of children terrified out of their wits cowering in terror beneath the fangs of those wretched bombs. Many of them will be blown to pieces while your fireworks go off. Many are witnessing their mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters getting shredded by shrapnel and debris.

There's a reason new wars are reported the way they are; in the 21st Century the television viewer is either "brought into the theatre" through the eyes and ears of the "embedded" reporter, and thereby separated from those dangerous moments of critical thought (think eg. Cambodia and Vietnam), by the artificial nature of this sense of involvement, or alternately, the viewer is presented, at a safe distance, with a display of fireworks reminiscent of the 4th of July, with all of the shallow latent emotionalism of that spectacle. Other's suffering has become entertainment.

Now there's a skateboard to nuts for you, brknphoenix...

Only America thinks it can bomb people into freedom and liberty.

qualm, just lighten up and enjoy the explosions already.

You sicken me.

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I remember watching this happen live. They were right to call it operation shock and awe.

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