While the Bush Administration prepares for war on Iraq with full-scale weapons production and troopdeployments, more insidious conditioning for the public acceptance of war continues. In the face of repeatedstatements by Bush and the hawkish members of his ruling clique of the need for "regime change" inIraq, international opinion has been forthright in its condemnation of such proposed aggression. However, inthe absence of the mobilized outrage of the American people, the Washington power elite will be emboldened tocarry out their war plans. Why the American public, so far, has been lackadaisical in its response to thissaber rattling may be reflective of the increase of psychic and political numbing opportunisticallymanipulated by the Bush Administration since 9/11.