Showdown on IRAQ
Tom Bell

Drones of
Doom with a view on
Booming
THUNderously
THREATENing
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                    Langer - "Yet the Times [October, 1862] reporter
cannot resist the melodrama that mere words supply (the
'dripping bodies' ready for 'the gaping trenches'), while
reprehending the intolerable realism of the image."
 
and who will get that knock at the door?
and WHO will get that knock at the door?
and who will get that KNOCK at the door?
and who will GET that knock at the door?

ourbraveist@wsmv.com 'and include with the picture a short note on why you
think they are our
bravest'

Baroque to rococo grotesque Tar-
  get Iraq

Drones of

Doom with a view on

Booming

THUNderously

THREATENing

                                              AND who?

and this found poem

"The real thing may not be fearsome enough, and
therefore needs to be enhanced; or reenacted more con-
vincingly.  Thus. the first newsreel ever made of a battle --
a much-publicized incident in Cuba during the Spanish-
American War of 1898 known as the Battle of San Juan
Hill -- in fact shows a charge staged shortly afterward by
Colonel Theodore Roosevel and his volunteer cavalry
unit, the Rough Riders, for the Vitagraph cameramen,
the actual charge up the hill, after it was filmed, having
been judged insufficiently dramatic." - S. Langer.

and this:

                                                 Underscore the Brutality

of
the Regime

On the talkshow circuit is somebody to blame

                                           "Perhaps the only people with
the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme or-
der are  those who could do something to alleviate it....."

WHAT IS BEING ASKED OF ME?

"...The
rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we meant to be......

   The ghoulish cruelties in _The isasters of War_ are meant
to awakenm shockm wound the viewer.  Goya's art, like
Dostoyevsky's, seem a turnin poit in the history of
moral feelings and of sorrow - as deep, as original, as de-
manding.  With Goya, a new standard for responsiveness
to sufferingm enters art....

                                                While
the image, like every image, is an invitation to look, the
caption, more often than not, insists on the difficulty of
doing just that.  A voice badgers the viewer: can you bear
to look at this?. _Esto es malo_.  _Esto es peor_. Why?
_Por que_?" - Langer

[Assan Akbar smiles from under a blue commencement mortar]

music upbeats and strenghtens under the news inexorably crawls
across under all save the ads which are underscored by their
800 or e.com banners ?underbanners?

Baghdad enjoys the most ferocious bombing yet as OPERATION
IRAQI FREEDOM marches on