1	Shock and Awe the nightmare side of the American dream of empire.
2	WARNING Although many children will be shown in this presentation, this is definitely not for children. This shows some of the reality we keep away from our children. Pictures and images of suffering and pain that are beyond our sheltered children’s imaginations. Perhaps, even beyond the imagination of many adults. Amazingly, they form part of the reality of many children in war-torn parts of the world. Must these children be our children for us to care? Yet, if we keep nurturing the beast of hatred and terrorism in our hearts, who is to say that this won’t happen to our own children, someday?
3	"The brutal "Shock and..." The brutal "Shock and Awe" military strategy devised by Harlan Ullman is taking a horrific toll on the Iraqi children of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. Ullman is a “defense intellectual.” He was the Navy's “head of extended planning” and taught at the National War College. One of his students was Secretary of State Colin Powell, who says he “raised my vision several levels.” The world is not being shown the horrific devastation that the massive tons of bombs and missiles are causing to Iraqi civilians. We continue to compile pictures from the International media to show the horrible slaughter of Iraqi civilians. “I say it publicly: the invading troops in Iraq and those who sent them are not Christians and have nothing to do with Christianity." - Orthodox Church Spokesman Archimandrite Attallah Hanna, April 1, 2003
4	Last Wednesday, CIA officials gave a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill about the rising tide of anti-Americanism sweeping the Arab world. Particular emphasis was placed on Jordan and Egypt. As agency officials discussed the depth of hatred for U.S. actions, the senators fell silent. There were delicate discussions about the uncertainty, if the war was protracted, of “regime stability.” After the briefing, “there were senators who were ashen-faced,” said one staff member. “They were absolutely depressed.” Much of what the agency briefed would not have been news to any close watcher of the BBC or almost any foreign news broadcast. “But they [the senators] only watch American TV,” said the staffer. Most of the senators had been led to believe that the war would be quick and that the Iraqi populace would be dancing in the streets. -Newsweek, April 7 Issue
5	"By our actions in this war, we serve a great and just cause" - Bush, Radio Address to the Nation, April 5, 2003
6	"The people of the United States are proud of the honorable conduct of our military. And I am proud to lead such brave and decent Americans." - Bush, Radio Address to the Nation, April 5, 2003
7	The people of Iraq have my pledge: Our fighting forces will press on until their oppressors are gone and their whole country is free. Bush, Radio Address to the Nation, April 5, 2003
8	“The people you liberate will witness the honorable and decent spirit of the American military.” Bush addresses the nation, March 19, 2003
9	“May God bless you, and may God bless America.” - G.W. Bush, Port of Philadelphia, March 31, 2003
10	"We either kill them or they give up." - Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Moseley , American commander of the air war over Iraq, April 5, 2003
11	"No connection has been found between Iraq and the terrorist attacks of September 11, and no evidence has been provided that Iraq has continued to manufacture chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and might pass them on to terrorist groups. All this is malicious propaganda to mask the real war aims which are what they have been since 1991: to affirm America’s global supremacy in a strategically vital, oil-rich part of the world, and to protect Israel’s regional supremacy and its monopoly of weapons of mass destruction." - Patrick Seale, March 28, 2003
12	"This war has been advanced on lie upon lie. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for any role al-Qaeda may have had in 9/11. Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attacks on this country. Iraq did not try to acquire nuclear weapons technology from Niger. This war is built on falsehood." - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, April 1, 2003
13	"A great deal has been accomplished..........I think this campaign is successful." - Colin Powell, April 2, 2003
14	"We salute the Air Force, Army, Marine and Navy participants for a very successful joint operation, and all of America is thankful for what they did." - Victoria Clarke, ASD PA, DoD News Briefing, April 2, 2003
15	“America is not entitled to harness Christianity to serve its colonial policy, which violates the values of Christianity and humanity,” - Orthodox Church Spokesman Archimandrite Attallah Hanna, April 1, 2003
16	"We remain committed to preserving the rich culture and heritage and the resources of the Iraqi people," - U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 26, 2003
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18	Our forces air and ground are performing superbly." - Victoria Clarke, ASD PA, DoD News Briefing, April 2, 2003
19	"Coalition forces are working to save Iraqi lives. We do this because ..... our nation and our people value human life." -D. Rumsfeld, March 28, 2003
20	This is not a war against a people. It is not a war against a country. It is most certainly not a war against religion," -D. Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing, March 20, 2003
21	"The terrible campaign of demonisation carried out by Mammonite media against Saddam Hussein, Iraqis and Arabs in general should be denounced as racist bigotry." - Israel Shamir, March 29, 2003
22	“It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen, and I hope I never see it again,” - Sgt. Mario Manzano, 26, an Army medic with Bravo Company of the division’s 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry
23	"We have a very, very deliberate process for targeting. It's unlike any other targeting process in the world. It takes into account all science. It takes into account all capability. And we do everything physically and scientifically possible to be precise in our targeting, whether it's on people or on structures," - U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 26, 2003
24	"Our forces have fired more than 700 cruise missiles and dropped more than 9,000 precision-guided munitions since Operation Iraqi Freedom began." - U.S. Gen. Richard B. Myers, DoD News Briefing, April 1, 2003
25	"Why? Why?" a doctor demanded of them. "Why did you Americans bomb our children's hospital?" - Washington Post article, March 30, 2003
26	The Americans badly miscalculated by believing that the Iraqis would welcome them as liberators - Newsweek, March 27, 2003
27	We have not seen any accurate reports or intelligence that suggests there's a humanitarian crisis in Iraq. - D. Rumsfeld, March 28, 2003
28	"I am satisfied that we have done all that we can do, again, to remain precise, remain on the plan, and attack those targets that were necessary for us," - U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 26, 2003
29	"There's no -- no one in this government, here or on the ground, is going to underreport what's happening. That's just terrible to think that. Even to suggest it is outrageous. Most certainly not! The facts are reported." -D. Rumsfeld, March 28, 2003
30	"We remain true to our stated purposes of removing the regime and liberating the long-oppressed people of Iraq, and we will not stop until we have done so," -U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 27, 2003
31	"The current generation of our military is not letting us down. They are making great progress in the war on Iraq." -G.W. Bush, March 28, 2003
32	"You see people who are tasting, for the first time in their lives, what freedom is," -U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 27, 2003
33	"Our targeting process remains deliberate, it remains sophisticated, and it remains precise. " -U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, CENTCOM Briefing, March 28, 2003
34	In the big scope of things, we're on track. We're on plan. We think we have just the right forces for what we need to do now." -U.S. Gen. Myers, Pentagon briefing, March 25, 2003
35	Soon the Iraqi people will see the great compassion of not only the United States, but other nations around the world who care deeply about the human condition inside that country," -G.W. Bush at Pentagon Briefing, March 25, 2003
36	“You got to go in there and bust their chops badly, and let the speed and momentum and violence overwhelm them.” -Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, March 25, 2003
37	“This will be a campaign unlike any other in history,” - U.S. General Franks at a Press Briefing on March 22, 2003
38	"To the Iraqi people, let me say that the day of your liberation will soon be at hand," - D. Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing, March 20, 2003
39	Coalition forces will take every precaution to protect innocent civilians," - D. Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing, March 20, 2003
40	"We know its outcome. We will prevail......the Iraqi people will be free and our world will be more secure and peaceful," -G. W. Bush, March 25, 2003
41	“It is a breathtaking sight to see it," -Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing, March 25, 2003
42	"Every day in combat training you had to yell out 'Kill! Kill!' and we would get into trouble if you didn't shout it out." - Stephen Eagle Funk, 20, the first American conscientious objector, April 1, 2003
43	"The pounding that Baghdad has taken has been extraordinarily precise in its nature.......So certain things have been pounded. But we think those are things that represented regime-oriented targets." - U.S. Maj. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, DoD News Briefing, April 2, 2003
44	"Operation Iraqi Freedom has been exposed as a gruesome travesty. An old-fashioned colonial war, built on lies, greed and geopolitical fantasies, it has nothing to do with ‘disarming’ Iraq or ‘liberating’ the Iraqi people." - Patrick Seale, March 28, 2003
45	"What did these little children do to the Americans? What did they do to (U.S. President George W). Bush?" - an Iraqi Mother, April 2, 2003
46	"The world will be more peaceful. I'm proud of you." - A teary-eyed Bush to the families of fallen U.S. troops, April 3, 2003
47	"We are a compassionate country..." - G..W. Bush, Nashville, TN, Feb. 10, 2003
48	"The citizens of Iraq are coming to know what kind of people we have sent to liberate them. American forces and our allies are treating innocent civilians with kindness, and showing proper respect to soldiers who surrender." - G.W. Bush, Camp Lejeune, NC, April 3, 2003
49	"But should we need to use troops, for the sake of future generations of Americans, American troops will act in the honorable traditions of our military and in the highest moral traditions of our country. " - G..W. Bush, Nashville, TN, Feb. 10, 2003
50	This Is War an unblinking look—in words and images—at the reality of warfare
51	""When our troops enter..." "When our troops enter a bombed village the pariah dogs are already at work eating the corpses of the babies and old women who have been killed. Many suffer from ghastly wounds, especially some of the younger children who...are covered with flies and crying for water." —Colonel Osburn of Britain, quoted in a May 1935 issue of the Manchester Guardian. Reprinted in A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist (The New Press, 2001), p 68.
52	Soldiers who survived WW I. From War Against War!
53	""I" "I could watch a burned infant trying to nurse from its dead mother's breast, see young men with their faces blown away, witness a boy deliberately gutted...and never protest.“ — reporter Richard Boyle in Vietnam. The Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the US Army in Vietnam by Richard Boyle (San Francisco, 1972), p. 22. Reprinted in An Intimate History of Killing by Joanna Bourke (Basic Books, 1999), p 199.
54	Al-Jazeera screenshots of US's post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan
55	""But [bombings]" "But [bombings] arouse a completely personal hate that no one can really understand who has not huddled in a cellar or burrowed his face in a field to escape dive bombers or seen a mother search for her son's torn-off head or smelled the stench of burning schoolchildren.“ —Reporter Edgar Snow in Chunking, China. Quoted in A History of Bombing, p 75.
56	Nagasaki, Japan, 10 August 1945. © Yosuke Yamahata
57	Photos of US's post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan.
58	""Nothing but parts of..." "Nothing but parts of bodies, arms, legs, heads, hands and torsos, being shoveled into a big heap... Then petrol was poured over it and the whole heap was burnt. Lorries came all the time and brought more of these dismembered people. I became incapable of walking away. The only thing I could think of was, could it be that Mother is among these mutilated things? Mesmerized I stared at the heaps of human remains... Mentally, I started to put together these parts of bodies in order to see whether they could be any of my family." —Eva Beyer, after the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. In The Bombers: The RAF Offensive Against Germay, 1939-1945 (1983). Quoted in A History of Bombing, p 103.
59	""My force was standing..." "My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies. I found myself walking through villages where the only sign of life was a dead goat, or a chicken, or song-bird, as the people were dead, their bodies being eaten by voracious packs of wild dogs.“ —quoted in A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide (Zed Books, 2000), pp 174-5.
60	Rwanda, 1994. © James Nachtwey
61	""A" "A member of Doctors Without Borders told of rescuing an eleven-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister from a gang of Hutus, who were laughing at them and spitting on them. By that time, both children had already been raped, and their father's severed penis had been stuffed into the girl's mouth." —from a review of A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide by L.R. Melvern (Zed Books, 2000). Reviewed in Everything You Know Is Wrong, edited by Russ Kick (The Disinformation Company, 2002), p 329.
62	Vietnam, 8 June 1972. Photo of Kim Phuc. © Nick Ut
63	""I" "I became a fucking animal. I started fucking putting fucking heads on poles. Leaving fucking notes for the motherfuckers. Digging up fucking graves. I didn't give a fuck anymore. Y'know, I wanted—. They wanted a fucking hero, so I gave it to them. They wanted fucking body count, so I gave them body count.“ —unnamed Vietnam Veteran, quoted in Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (New York, 1994). Reprinted in An Intimate History of Killing.
64	Iraq during Gulf War I. © Peter Turnley
65	""Sergeant Michael McCuster recalled..." "Sergeant Michael McCuster recalled one time when his Marine platoon went into a village [in Vietnam] and gang-raped a woman (the last man to rape her, shot her). He recalled that their sergeant 'took no part in the raid. It was against his morals. So instead of telling his squad not to do it, because they wouldn't listen to him anyway, the sergeant went into another side of the village and just sat and stared bleakly at the ground.'“ —from An Intimate History of Killing, p 200. McCuster's quote is from Vietnam Veterans Against the War, The Winter Soldier Investigation (1972), p 29.
66	Reuters photos of US's post-9/11 attack on Afghanistan. © Reuters
67	""By the time Calley..." "By the time Calley and men sat down to lunch, they had rounded up and slaughtered around 500 unarmed civilians. Within those few hours, members of Charlie Company had 'fooled around' and laughed as they sodomized and raped women, ripped vaginas open with knives, bayoneted civilians, scalped corpses, and carved "C Company" or the ace of spades onto their chests, slaughtered animals, and torched hooches. Other soldiers had wept openly as they fired on crowds of unresisting old men, women, children, and babies." —description of the My Lai massacre (16 March 1968). From An Intimate History of Killing, p 160.
68	The My Lai massacre
69	""[Sergeant Bruce F." "[Sergeant Bruce F. Anello] describes the grotesque pranks played upon corpses, the rapes, and the way platoons were 'willing to kill any body' simply in order to beat another platoon's 'kill record.‘” —from An Intimate History of Killing, p 205
70	Execution by the Northern Alliance
71	""Fight," "Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man.'‘ —Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by former sniper Anthony Swofford (Scribner, 2003).
72	""In the Pacific theatre..." "In the Pacific theatre of war, men collected breasts from the bodies of killed (or captured) Japanese women.... The tendency to collect human trophies escalated during the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam when the bodily parts most favoured were ears, teeth, and fingers, but the collection of heads, penises, hands, and toes were all reported.“ —From An Intimate History of Killing, PP 26-7
73	The My Lai massacre, 16 March 1968
74	When will we ever learn that wars are not the solutions, but the problems?
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