"shock And Awe" Ticket Refunds
bubbleblower
Join Date: 2003-01-18 Member: 12452Members
Join Date: 2003-01-18 Member: 12452Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Light-hearted rhetorical question</div> I've been watching loads of news coverage ever since the deadline passed for Iraq. I've mostly been watching streetlights gather moss. Furthermore, it sounds like there is a possibility that the Iraqi government might fold on its own, eliminating the need for a massive bombing campaign (within sight of the news cameras in Baghdad.)
What then? Regardless of where you stand on the philosophical issues, isn't everyone just as curious to see just what "shock and awe" was going to look like?
Humans schmumans. My shallow side is going to feel cheated if they don't do it- once the deadline passed I pretty much resigned myself to a war, and started watching and waiting for the spectacle.
If it becomes unnecessary to unleash the fireworks, should they go ahead and blow up an empty mock city so we can see? Don't we deserve something after all this waiting and talk? Or should we citizens of coalition countries get our money back?
What then? Regardless of where you stand on the philosophical issues, isn't everyone just as curious to see just what "shock and awe" was going to look like?
Humans schmumans. My shallow side is going to feel cheated if they don't do it- once the deadline passed I pretty much resigned myself to a war, and started watching and waiting for the spectacle.
If it becomes unnecessary to unleash the fireworks, should they go ahead and blow up an empty mock city so we can see? Don't we deserve something after all this waiting and talk? Or should we citizens of coalition countries get our money back?
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I think they need to spend more time making individual soldiers into celebrities. Get us hooked on a small group that we're familiar with, and use them to try to sell us all kinds of crap. We'd watch some slo-mo replay of Duke Nukem, and then they'd cut to commericals where he'd charge into a melee battle but all the combatants, while appearing to be fighting, would be calmly discussing interest rates on their mortgages, just like managers and umpires.
Oh, and right where that full moon is over Baghdad? How about a Budweiser blimp?
*Yes, I KNOW this is in bad taste and will never amount to anything good.*
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Like they could have aim on a cloths line while a couple tanks roll buy fire artillery and stuff.
Erk, forgot about that. I'm still trying to keep images out of my head of Lee Iacoca dancing around a meadow of edelweis wearing a too-small set of leiderhosen.
OOOm-pah, OOOm-pah, OOOm-pah...
The pride is back... -_-
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hear songs such as Mother of all bombs above baghdad civic center.
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featuring Dixie Chicks.
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i dont think i remeber anything in the music video about iraq though. Just alot of wimen bouncing up and down.
I was telling my other half today that my expectations for shock-and-awe are probably so built up from everything they've been saying, that no matter, what I'd be disappointed. Here's kind of what I was expecting:
In the quiet, moonlit Baghdad night, a leering, grinning joker face suddenly appears on the clouds overlooking the city. Illuminated by massive searchlights hundreds of miles away, this ominous harbinger of unspeakable destruction fills the residents with hideous dread. Softly at first, then stronger and stronger, they hear the beat of drums, just like the orcs in the mines of Moria.
DOOM -- DOOM -- DOOM -- DOOM -- DOOM
Then, after what seems a silent eternity, their worst fears are confirmed- the light of the moon begins to be blotted out by the approaching black silhouettes of wave after wave of coalition aircraft. Hundreds of Apache gunships bring up the rear, tastelessly mimicking "Apocalypse Now" by blasting "Flight Of The Valkyries" at 180 decibels. In addition, the choppers are each towing a massive Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon, representing the triumph of our way of life. Gigantic floating Uncle Sams, Grimace from McDonald's, maybe even a big Al Roker (before he lost weight.)
Just when the residents of Baghdad believe the black tide of evil is about to devour them, the music and the drums stop completely, and the black swarm halts and maintains a circle, ringing the entire city. They just hover, silently. And then, faintly at first, a tiny new star appears in the heavens, and as it grows brighter, more appear beside it. Soon the sky is filled with thousands upon thousands of falling stars, shrieking and wailing as they draw close. Bombs and weapons of every kind imaginable rain down on the helpless city- earth-shaking explosions, massive fireballs, even completely spiteful and impractical weapons that resemble fireworks you pick up at Indian reservations- buzzbombs, sparklers, bouncing bettys.
And then, when the bombs stop falling, and the survivors peek up from the rubble, they see the legions of ground forces surge over the hilltops like fireants, while the gunships open with their vulcan cannons...
I'll stop there. As you can see, I'm bound to be disappointed- they need some more creative directors up there with the generals.