Do you think the Iraqi people who survived "Shock and Awe" considered that terrorism?

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/24/eveningnews/main537928.shtml

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2003
Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage
Plan Calls For Firing Up To 800 Cruise Missiles In First 2 Days Of War

(CBS) They're calling it "A-Day," A as in airstrikes so devastating they would leave Saddam's soldiers unable or unwilling to fight.

If the Pentagon sticks to its current war plan, one day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq. As CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports, this is more than number that were launched during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War.

On the second day, the plan calls for launching another 300 to 400 cruise missiles.

"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," said one Pentagon official who has been briefed on the plan.

"The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before," the official said.

The battle plan is based on a concept developed at the National Defense University. It's called "Shock and Awe" and it focuses on the psychological destruction of the enemy's will to fight rather than the physical destruction of his military forces.

"We want them to quit. We want them not to fight," says Harlan Ullman, one of the authors of the Shock and Awe concept which relies on large numbers of precision guided weapons.

"So that you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes," says Ullman.

If Shock and Awe works, there won't be a ground war.

[gratuitous]

1. Oh, not at all

It's just that the initial wave of death raining down from the night sky took out their favorite chocolates and flowers shoppe, so they weren't able to greet us liberators the way they knew we wanted to be greeted. The only store left was "Say It With IEDs," and, well, you know how it went from there.

Why would anyone being blown to smithereens by someone they couldn't escape and couldn't fight back against consider that to be terrorism? Is that one of those furriner cultural things?

[RC]

2. Shows how much they knew.

Here we are almost 8 years later, still in ground war, trying to get out. Why aren't these people in prison for war crimes?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

3. I can't speak for them, but I sure as hell think it is terrorism!

And why I hate GWB and his cronies so much.

[indepat]

12. In our grossly perverted perception, terrorism is something committed by the guys who wear the black

hats and the US always wears the white hats so it is not the act committed that determines whether it is terrorism, but who commits the act. Delusional yes, but this is reality of the situation. :P

[blues90]

4. Ya Think? Hell I remember how I felt during the cuban missle crisis

And me along with many other were scared to death. This although not nuclear did happen to the people of Iraq. Well we did leave behind a trail of depleted uranium so in that sense it was part nuke.

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5. This? Terrorism?

[Brigid]

10. Of course not.

Because we did it. :sarcasm:

[bobbolink]

11. Oh, no... it was just pretty pyrotechnics.

Just to remind the world who's in charge at all times.

[ixion]

6. Of course it was terrorism.

Had that been done to any area of the US by another country -- and WITHOUT PROVOCATION -- you can be very sure that we would be calling it terrorism.

I don't know why it should be any different when we do it to someone else.

[TexasObserver]

7. Yes, when bombs fall out of the sky and kill civilians, that's terrorism.

Smart bombs, my ass!

[Time for change]

8. They absolutely do -- and they're right

[patrice]

9. Yes. Terrorism = Non-combatants intentionally killed.

[spanone]

13. we've been terrorizing iraq since the day we invaded it....

[glitch]

14. the first time...nt