RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_iu6vo3m wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:26 AM

Reply to comment by PseudonymMan12 in A missile hits near a café in Ukraine. (Safe For Work) by Alabussy

At the beginning of the Iraq war they televised air strikes in black and green night vision. It was called Operation Shock and Awe. They seriously tried to turn that war into an action movie for people to watch on tv and get hyped. They also got Godsmack for Navy commercials.

It's not that there is something wrong with you. They know exactly what they are doing.

Mrsparkles7100 t1_iu7apn7 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:29 AM

To help sway population opinion. Look at 2nd Iraq war, polling after the invasion still had swathes of the population believing Saddam was linked to 9/11. Government plus the media did that to help back the war.

Remember the incubator story from the first Gulf war. A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.

_Administrator_ t1_iu7fmo2 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:13 AM

Saddam wad an asshole who gassed Kurds. He had it coming.

PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 t1_iu7aac0 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:26 AM

Yeah I remember my friends and I joking about it in 8th grade because it felt like everyone was hyping it up like the Super Bowl. Shock and awe, brought to you by Pepsi! Like we all tuned in at 8 pm or whatever to see a city get completely shelled. Just surreal.