[cajungirl]

Is it just me or is this the slowest damned war ever. I thought by now shock and awe would be on the tube shocking and awing all of us. This war is pretty disappointing tv wise. Dont flame and lecture me,yeah, I don't want people killed, yadda yadda.

[Southack]

We've got to give the Iraqi division commanders time to surrender. Shock and Awe too fast and they'll all be dead before they can wave the white flag...

[proust]

slowest? it hasn't even been 24 hours yet.

[dep]

problem is, we may well have killed the bad guys with the first shot.

dep

[txradioguy]

Yeah I know what you mean about it being slow. But IMHO it's a deliberate thing. The "shock and awe" that we've heard about may not be needed if we killed Saddam and some of his inner circle last night. But from personal experience, this thing can go from slow to supersonic with one radio call.

[ontos-on]

I am sorry to tell you that wars usually do not end in just 24 hours.

[HairOfTheDog]

Is it just me or is this the slowest damned war ever. I thought by now shock and awe would be on the tube shocking and awing all of us. This war is pretty disappointing tv wise. Dont flame and lecture me,yeah, I don't want people killed, yadda yadda.

Yadda yadda? you do deserve to be lectured. You should have gone to see a movie. Reality will never measure up. The angles and lighting are not perfect, the cinematography second rate? - Those are real sons and daughters out there, not actors for your amusement.

[mystery-ak]

Well, as far as I know you win...I've been waiting all day for someone to post that......first, we are waiting too long to start, now we aren't moving fast enough....I suggest you get your own command.....geeeez!

[MEG33]

The war is not exiting enough?

[TomB]

Is it just me or is this the slowest damned war ever.

As opposed to WHAT?

[John H K]

It took the Germans 21 days to reach the English Channel in their invasion of France in 1941, and 42 days for the French to surrender.

I think if that invasion was covered with precisely the same technology and number of channels and media we have today, THAT would seem slow, too.

And that was one of the ultimate examples of "Blitzkrieg" (Shock and Awe = Blitzkrieg, but for obvious PR reasons you can't call it that; the US military has tried about 20 different euphamisms for Blitzkrieg in the last 20 years. Oddly, the foremost practicioner of Blitzkrieg since WWII has been the Israelis.)

[RightWhale]

This war is pretty disappointing tv wise

Doing just fine with no TV, just FR and radio.

[diabolicNYC]

What a horrible thing to say. OK, fine, I was thinking it too.

[ChicagoRepublican]

You don't know what it was like for me as a kid. I had to watch five minutes of grainy footage each night to follow the Six Day War. Can you believe it! A war that actually lasted a FULL SIX days. Thank god you have wars that take place over the span of hours and not days.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, Americans were really stupid letting WWII go on for four years.

Like wow, that's like a long time, like, ya know?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Here, this might help pass the time:

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Boy! Are you spoiled, or what? Back in the old days, it would take weeks and months and in the really, really old days, years and years to do what these great men and women have done in hours. Little Miss Instant Gratification! (Just kidding)

[CheneyChick]

It certainly is a bucking the trend as far as wars go..... More of a "Wait & See" war than "Shock & Awe"...

[jackbill]

Is it just me or is this the slowest damned war ever.

Well, I wasn't there, but I've read about a "Hundred Years War". Sit back, take a shower, have a drink and chill.

[Hildy]

I know...this war is so boring I had to watch American Idol last night!

[metesky]

What are you, like 14/15 years old?