On 27/07/2007 BigMike wrote:
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>I saw a news bulletin on either SBS or ABC last week (no ways it was on
>a commercial station) about US troops in Iraq, and how stressed they are
>getting as their ``tours'' are repeatedly extended.
>
>The camera followed them on a raid into a house. Inside was chaos. Barking
>dogs surrounding an old woman with little more than a chair and a Zimmer
>frame, who was yelling and wailing in anguish at the troops.
>
>Then outside again, and on deserted shattered streets, the soldiers try
>to flag down a civilian car that is ``acting suspiciously''. It takes off.
>They shoot it up. Soldiers approach driver lying in car. ``He moved, he's
>still alive'' one says. ``Nope, he's shot through the throat,'' another
>says.
>
>He dies. Nothing suspicious in the car. Later a woman in a nearby house
>tells the troops the car was an informal taxi she'd ordered. He was trying
>to find her house in amongst the carnage.
>
>That evening, one US soldier is venting at the camera, saying he's done
>15 months but he would gladly, and for free, do another 15 months if George
>Bush or another senior government figure would come and do it with him.
>
>And what I have to say is going to get censored, but there's no other
>word for it, the story made me so f---ing angry and depressed. About the
>intolerable human cost of the Western powers' arrogance and stupidity.
>Australia has backed the US in this insanity and continues to do so.
For anyone who might be interested, the video that caused me to make the above post can be seen at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2125978,00.html
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