Shock 'N Awe Third Anniversary

Television news shows are focusing on Iraq this week. Instead of giving us blood and gore for seventeen minutes of their airtime, they are devoting the whole thirty minutes to covering this third anniversary of the war.

For all their talking points, not one of them has covered the prime issue of the entire affair.

When Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld bragged about our tactics for initiating the Iraq invasion, their key phrase was: awe, shock and surprise. It's rather significant that the acronym resulting from the first letter of these three elements is: ASS.

Three years later, in world discussions of the Iraqi situation, it is the acronym which is commonly applied to Americans, their tactics and their intentions.
Shock 'n Awe Third Anniversary © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan