Talk:Shock and awe

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[edit] This Article is Garbage

Riddled with POV at face value (some of which I corrected), and hardly informative. Actually, useless as far as information on the actual Iraq operation goes. The entire article is nothing but criticism masked by subsection titles. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. --Haizum μολὼν λαβέ 15:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iraq War Buildup

The statement, "Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, officials in the United States armed forces described their plan as employing shock and awe" is incorrect. It's a bad attempt at paraphrasing the cited CBS News article. The US government never described the March 2003 bombing campaign as "shock and awe." The press has a love affair with the words shock and awe, similar to the way they add the suffix "-gate" to anything resembling a scandal. And I agree with the sentiment of Haizum; this article stinks. Hildenja (talk) 12:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)