On the 3rd Anniversary of the 2nd Iraq War, Iraq veterans clearly spell out the problems with words and song. Words by Camilo Mejia and Michael Blake; song by VOICE.
Whatever your feelings on war might be, people should know what we went through. http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/tv_guide/full_details/Conflict/programme_2939.php
this is the true story of iraq if you dont know
An unjust an illegal war that violates both domestic and international laws. How much blood must be spilled before the violence comes to and end? Can you imagine being an Iraqi citizen and having to live your life this way? Special thanks to a friend of mine in Baghdad who told me where many of these pictures are and for providing the music for this photo montage.
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Iraqi volunteers bury more anonymous victims of violence now than during Saddam's rule Every month in Iraq hundreds of victims are struck down by sectarian violence or massive bombing campaigns, and a small band of volunteers has taken it upon themselves to give the unclaimed dead a proper burial. "We've been doing this for 20 years, under Saddam, but the numbers have increased, as have the difficulties," Sheik Jamal al-Sudani, who leads the volunteers, tells CNN correspondent Michael Ware. "Because now it is as if the streets are flowing with blood." Before the US invasion of Iraq deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, the volunteers buried up to 40 people every month. In the war's worst months, that figure increased 50-fold as volunteers buried an average of more than 2,000 anonymous war victims, Ware reports.
FRONTLINE teams up with director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) for a “virtual embed” in Iraq with the Bad Voodoo platoon in “Bad Voodoo’s War” coming April 1 to PBS and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/badvoodoo/ In June 2007, as the American military surge reached its peak, a band of National Guard infantrymen who call themselves “The Bad Voodoo Platoon” was deployed to Iraq. To capture a vivid, first-person account of the new realities of war in Iraq for FRONTLINE and ITVS, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) created a “virtual embed” with the platoon, supplying cameras to the soldiers so they could record and tell the story of their war. The film intimately tracks the veteran soldiers of “Bad Voodoo” through the daily grind of their perilous mission, dodging deadly IEDs, grappling with the political complexities of dealing with Iraqi security forces, and battling their fatigue and their fears.
Part 2 in my series of reports while embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. October 2005.
What really happened in Haditha? Watch FRONTLINE on air and online beginning February 19, 2008. FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal the untold story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq—where twenty-four of the town’s residents were killed by U.S. forces in what many in the media branded “Iraq’s My Lai.” With accusations swirling that the Marines massacred Iraqi civilians “in cold blood,” the Haditha incident has led to one of the largest criminal cases against U.S. troops in the Iraq war. But real questions have emerged about what really happened that day, and who is responsible. Through television interviews with Iraqi survivors and Marines accused of war crimes, FRONTLINE investigates this incident and what it can tell us about the harrowing moral and legal landscape the U.S. military faces in Iraq. Watch “Rules of Engagement,” coming February 19, 2008 at 9 pm on PBS (check local listings) and online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/
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