scare tactics

'Scare Tactics' is a show whose premise is to pull a practical scary joke on a good friend and watch them sweat, swoon and shiver as possible ghosts, zombies, ax murderers, paranormal entities and space creatures invade their private space. The idea is to set up your friends in situations that scare the flesh off their skin, and then once they have peed in their pants, or thrown up their lunch, you come to their rescue, wrap a "I got you" arm around them and tell them it was all a good joke. The wonder of the show for me, is that one, I am not the person on the receiving end of the horrible joke understanding that the reaction demonstrated by the victims is probably how I would respond, and two that it was only a joke and a rather good one at that and no one got hurt.

As with most good scary shows, the viewer lives through the spooky stuff, the creatures calculating and crude, the monsters mayhem but know usually at the end of the spectacle, the horror and the violence, the awful and the ugly will end and after all...it was only a movie or TV show and nobody in real life died.

"Operation Iraqi Freedom began on 20 March 2003. President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on 01 May 2003. The single worst day of Major Combat Operations was 23 March 2003, on which 30 American soldiers died. A total of 116 service members were killed in action during major combat operations, and another 25 died due to non-hostile causes such as accidents."

There’s no room for failure—when it comes to Weapons of Mass Destruction, even a single incident could be catastrophic.

In July 2006, the FBI created the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, or WMDD, to build a cohesive and coordinated approach to incidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical weapons—with an overriding focus on prevention. (Wikipedia) But there were never any Weapons of Mass Destruction then and there were never any plans for any Weapons of Mass Destruction ever. It was a ploy to rile up, terrify, overwhelm Americans to fight a war based on lies. It was a Scare Tactic.

Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld decided that it was time for them to play a game of 'Scare Tactics' on the citizens of the United States. They thought they would use the American Troops and the Iraqi citizens as the dupes on which the game would be played, and Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld watched as their choice of victims died, 4500 Troops, over 100,000 Iraqi's as their little game of liar, liar played out.

Unlike the TV show Scare Tactics, when the plot is unveiled as phony and a set up having the best friend come forward and admit it was all a set up, the boys and girls in the Bush Dictatorship, have remained silent in owning up to any shenanigans, or feigning ignorance to their scheme. Instead they are writing books earning lots of dollars in defending why this tactic was used and blaming anyone but themselves for putting it into place.

They said it was all red, white and blue what they were doing. After all they were Republicans and if anyone knew how to save this country from Communists, Socialists, Terrorists, the Boogie Men it was a band of apple pie, God Bless America Republicans. Saddam was a bad man who was going to blow up Peoria Kansas and unless we sent in our Troops to dismantle his cadre of mushroom cloud makers he would succeed. They said it was the American way.

Like many Republicans with irreparable reputations filled with falsehoods, fabrications, and lies, the Bush's, Cheney's Rice's, Powell's and Rumsfeld like to rewrite history and re-explain the facts. They love to dumb down America and double speak, deplete, or deny what history has proven to be true. So far George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld have written fiction books trying to cover the truths about their scare tactics. Both have received hundreds of thousands of dollars for their lack of honesty, almost as much money as people who have died or been injured in the Scare Tactic war they invented.

I have had no friends star in Scare Tactics on TV, and I thank God have had no friends die due to the Scare Tactics used by Bush and company. But I wonder how hard the families of the Troops and Iraqi's who have died or been injured are laughing watching the originators of a bad joke lie their way out of something immoral, unethical and so Un-American.

In the show 'Scare Tactics', the victims of the pranks usually warn their conspirator friends, just wait till it is your turn. Perhaps the victims of the horrible scare tactics, almost all Americans, used by Bush and Associates should find a way to make these jokers face the injustices they lied about. Wouldn't it be nice to see real American justice delivered.