Military jargon and names given to weapons have historically been recognized as morbid euphemisms displaying a feigned detachment in describing something so final and personal for those on the receiving end. The current level of nuclear jock talk also reveals a pathological fixation with male genitalia and psychotic male sexuality, Freudian and beyond. Here’s just a small collection of current terminology to laugh and cry about. This is the technology we are supposed to admire and pay for: The deployment, penetration and discharge of U.S. strategic Warheads do not go down smoothly without oil. Everyone, especially the good ol’ boys of the U.S. military, knows that it’s all about the oil. The Air Force must use force with its “Bunker Busters,” but sometimes its discharge is less than “Friendly Fire.” There are many cases of misguided missiles at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Ask any Air Force Ca-dette.
Embedded journalists know nothing of the “Advanced Unitary Penetrators.” The military keeps it under the covers, because it doesn’t want to disclose much about its “Depleted Uranium” wasting the lives of the ranks and fodder. Actually, the military doesn’t use its old “Ps” (older “heavy metal” penetrators), now that it has new viagra enhanced “AUPs” (Advanced Unitary Penetrators) and condom contoured “S/CH” (Shaped Charge warhead technology they call “missiles covered with skins”).
They have found that women and children respond best to the “BRs “or “BROACH” (Multiple Warhead System). Women are ravished, “she is disassembled”, and children instantly turn into cute little “crispy critters.” Depleted Uranium, their contribution to recycling, secures the rights of the unborn to come into the world (for a short time only), with spectacular birth defects.. “Cluster Bombs” evolved out of a concern for family values.
At times the military likes to get down and dirty. “Dirty DU,” comes from “a penetrating body formed of Depleted Uranium” which is sometimes contaminated with Plutonium. Will it be radioactive semen, cancer or only “Gulf War Syndrome?” But of course those good oil’ boys cut a disarmingly dashing profile with their “Smart Bombs” and “Cruise Missiles” and the “120 mm U.S.& Charm UK.” They can literally melt your heart away with their ”Armor-Piercing Ammunition” (confirmed to have Depleted Uranium).
Dressed in uniform, they can even become poetic with “Daisy Cutters,” putting fresh flowers on the graves. The graves are dug by “ The Big Red One,” a mechanized military division using oversized bulldozers created for the military by Caterpillar, Inc., U.S.A. The “Big Red One” was able to bury thousands of Iraqis (some not yet dead) in Pappy’s Gulf War (according to U.S. Army Officials) And of course their “Stealth Bombers” add a romantic air of mystery. “Big BLU” (a “direct strike hard target weapon”) sends everyone into rapturous song, “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder!” Native Americans are finally “honored” (from a distance) for their once –upon-a-time warrior prowess, with “Apache Helicopters,” the “Tactical Tomahawk” and the “SCALP-ER” (a BROACH).
And of course we can’t forget Texas, with the “Maverick.” Question: Does the “Patriot Missile” have anything to do with the “ Patriot Act,” or is it just a “Maverick?” In any case, “Just don’t mess with Texas.” But when they really get down to it, The Military Freudian Complex strives to out-do their fathers, (remember the “Little Boy” and “Fat Boy” used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?) Now they have the “Hard Target Guided Warheads” and the “SLAM-ER” (Shaped Charge), and the “20mm Phalanx sea-to-air.” Sometimes men, in the act of creating Weapons of Mass Destruction, wax to new climaxes of religious fervor: “HellfireII/Brimstone,” is a “Guided Missile.”
So now we arrive at the ultimate theological question: Could it be that “Warhead” is close to “Godhead?”
Whether you are for or against this Invasion on Iraq, you should at least know your American vocabulary for U.S. “WMDs” (Weapons of Mass Destruction) while you contemplate your own likelihood of being collaterally damaged. (…unless of course you happen to live in an underground bunker near the White House).
US WMDs certain to have and/or suspected to have Depleted Uranium:
Big BLU –116 Bunker Buster guided bombs
BLU-108/B
GBU-32 1,000 Guided bomb
GBU-15
GBU-24 (with a shroud to the penetrating body)
GBU-27
GBU-31
AGM-130C
BGM-109
Tactical Tomahawk Penetrator Version warhead
EFP , Explosively Formed Penetrator
CBU-97 Cluster Bomb
Websites on weapons and depleted uranium:
www.eoslifework.co.uk
www.democracynow.org
http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6142.html
