U.S. MARINES VIDEO IN IRAQ WITH REAL FOOTAGE: WARNING GRAPHIC

The media would have you believing the war in Iraq is OVER, but there are still pockets of resistance and there is talk of a big offensive right around the time of the elections in the United States.

This VIDEO shows the U.S. Marines in action in Iraq...a country that is far from total peace:

http://www.youtube.com/v/C_LTvGSHHh4&hl=en&fs=1

CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW IN PICTURE TO ACTIVATE VIDEO

REAL COMBAT VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN---THE NEW HOT SPOT

Afghanistan has emerged as the new "hot spot" for American troops and this video shows an American combat patrol under heavy attack in a mountainous area of Afghanistan.

The war in Afghanistan is going to be fought in the hills and mountains of Afghanistan unlike Iraq which was a war conducted mostly in urban areas.

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/v/Emr1tFK5wBc&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in center of picture to activate video.

NEW GRAPHIC VIDEO: ATTACK ON MARINE CONVOY IN FALLUJAH. VERY GRAPHIC

This new video shows an attack on a U.S. Marine convoy in Fallujah where hostilites have heated up despite what FOX NEWS and the Bush administration are telling AMERICANS

http://www.youtube.com/v/fUFg0wYtZXg&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in picture to activate video. WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC

FIRST VIDEO REPORT OF 9 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

AP has released the first video of the attack in Afghanistan which killed 9 U.S. soldiers. The Army is investigating whether intelligence was lacking and the soldiers were walking right into a trap.

See VIDEO here: http://www.youtube.com/v/gOqDdobMbf0&hl=en&fs=1

Click on diamond-shaped arrow in picture to activate video

BRAND NEW VIDEO: AP REPORTS VIOLENCE UP SHARPLY IN AFGHANISTAN AS WAR ENTERS 7TH YEAR

The war in Afghanistan and casualties from the war are up sharply as this video from the Associated Press tells.
The video was released four days ago and reports on the nine U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan a week ago.

See video here: http://www.youtube.com/v/j9IC_tSj-co&hl=en&fs=1

CBS REPORTS: IRAQI PM SUPPORTS OBAMA'S PLAN FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL

Iraqi PM Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plan

BAGHDAD, July 19, 2008
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/19/iraq/main4275137.shtml

(CBS/AP) In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he supported a plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

When asked when he thinks U.S. troops should leave Iraq, al-Maliki told the magazine, "As soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He added, "U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is right when he talks about 16 months." Al-Maliki deferred, however, from offering outright support for Obama's candidacy. "Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement," he said. "Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business."

The prime minister, who has spoken of setting a timetable for U.S. withdrawal - an option that has been anathema to the White House - discounted the Bush adminstration's concerns. "So far the Americans have had trouble agreeing to a concrete timetable for withdrawal, because they feel it would appear tantamount to an admission of defeat," al-Maliki told Der Spiegel.

WE REPORT: YOU DECIDE. WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ AND OBAMA'S TRIP TO IRAQ?

RUPERT MURDOCH not only owns FOX NEWS but he also owns the New York Post. As would be expected, the New York Post slams Barack Obama's trip to Iraq and lies to their readers about the success of "the surge." The New York Post, naturally, believes everything Republican candidate for President John McCain says about Iraq.

Following this propaganda piece in the New York Post, we present to our blog readers the REAL TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ including the latest list of casualties from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rupert Murdoch and his "news" empire continue to LIE to the American public about IRAQ through FOX NEWS and the New York Post as well as scores of other media outlets the foreign-born Rupert Murdoch owns.

We begin with the NEW YORK POSTS' propaganda piece followed by the TRUTH about Iraq from the TRUE source of events on the ground in Iraq, Iraq Today, http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE


BARACK'S IRAQ TRIP
Posted: 4:38 amJuly 19, 2008

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07192008/postopinion/editorials/baracks_iraq_trip_120597.htm

Barack Obama is headed for the front - including a stop in an Iraq that would look far different had Washington adopted the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's strategic imperatives.

Indeed. For the troop surge so vehemently opposed by Obama has clearly succeeded - as GOP candidate John McCain declared yesterday.

"We have succeeded in Iraq - not 'we are succeeding' - we have succeeded in Iraq," said McCain.
"The strategy has worked, and we now have the Iraqi government and military in charge of the major cities in Iraq. Al Qaeda is on [its] heels and on the run."

McCain has every good reason to be outspoken about the good news.

Back when Gen. David Petraeus and President Bush announced plans for the surge, McCain went way out on a limb and endorsed it - indeed, he'd long been pushing for precisely such a strategy.

Democrats, with Obama to the fore, predicted a military disaster and piles of American corpses. (Indeed, even many Republicans were afraid to back the Petraeus plan openly.)

But McCain, a combat veteran who's made repeated trips to the front, knew otherwise.

As for Obama, until recently he was still insisting that the surge would fail.

Now he knows otherwise - which is why his aides moved quickly to purge all signs of his earlier opposition from his campaign Web site.

Fact is, as McCain rightly notes, "If we had done what Sen. Obama wanted to do, there would be no situation to evaluate because we would've lost."

"There would be chaos," he added. "There would be an increase in sectarian violence. There would be widening Iranian influence - and we would be facing disaster."

So it's a good thing that Sen. Obama is headed for Iraq and Afghanistan. He'll probably learn something important about how the war is being conducted.


Maybe he'll even come to realize that this hard-won success is too fragile to be put at risk by a too-hasty retreat.

Something John McCain also has understood all along.

AND THEN THERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ WHICH THE NEW YORK POST AND FOX NEWS ARE INCAPABLE OF TELLING.

THE FOLLOWING U.S. CASUALTIES AND ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN HAPPENED ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND STAND IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE LIES PUT FORTH BY THE NEW YORK POST AND FOX NEWS.


SOURCE: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

Casualty Reports:Army Sgt. Matthew Gobble, 24, who was injured in Afghanistan was hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade during an attack by Taliban insurgents against a U.S.-led outpost near Pakistan. The shrapnel sprayed across much of Gobble’s body, his father said. “It was basically his entire left side from his head all the way down to his feet,” he said. Gobble was flown to Germany, where he underwent surgery to remove the shrapnel and repair cartilage and ligaments.

U.S. Army Spc. Aaron Davis, 21, and his comrades in the 173rd Airborne Brigade. According to military officials, 200 insurgents fired on the base with machine guns, grenades and mortars. He had been hurt in the leg and head, she said. She did not have details about the injuries, but noted that her son had already been presented with the Purple Heart. He remained in a hospital Friday in Italy and at some point will be flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Reported Security incidents:Baghdad:

#1: Friday One unidentified body was found in Baghdad by Iraqi Police today in Amil neighbourhood.

#2: A roadside bomb wounded four civilians in central Baghdad, police said.Around 3 pm a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol in Karrada neighborhood. 4 Iraqi people were injured.

#3: Around 7 am a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol near Ghadeer bridge in Zayuna neighborhood. One Humvee was damaged with no casualties reported.Diyala Prv:

Khalis:#1: Meanwhile, an official source in Diala police told VOI that security forces found on Saturday three headless bodies in al-Karama neighborhood, al-Adhim district, al-Khalis, (150 km) north of Baaquba. "The three bodies were of brothers that had been kidnapped on Wednesday," the source said, not giving more details.

Nassiriya:#1: An explosive charge on Saturday detonated near a police patrol vehicle in southern Thi-Qar province, causing no casualties or damage, a local police media and relations director said. "An improvised explosive device (IED) planted in downtown Souk al-Shoyoukh district (30 km south of Nassiriya city) blew up while a police patrol car was passing by, causing no casualties or damage," Colonel Sadiq al-Mashrafawi told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq.

Tikrit:#1: Gunmen killed three policemen in an attack on their patrol outside Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.Sulaiman Bek.#1: A roadside bomb targeted a patrol for the south oil company guards in Sulaiman Beck in Tuz Khurmatu ( south of Kirkuk and northeast of Tikrit) Friday night. 4 guards were injured.Sulaimaniyah:#1: Police found two dead bodies for a woman a her daughter in Sulaimaniyah city today.

Mosul:#1: Two Iraqi armed forces members died and eight others were wounded Saturday in a car bomb explosion in northern Iraq, military sources said. The incident happened in the mainly Kurdish city of Mosul, al-Sumaria Iraqi Satellite TV reported.

#2: A handcuffed body was found with gunshot wounds on Friday in western Mosul, police said

.#3: Gunmen killed one person on Friday just outside his house in northern Mosul, police said.#4: A sniper shot dead a policeman at a checkpoint in central Mosul, police said.

Afghanistan:#1: Meanwhile, the chief police of Kandahar told Deutsche Presse- Agenture (dpa) Saturday that a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan killed four policemen and wounded another. Khan Mohammad - a police official in Kandahar province - said the blast struck a patrol in Maiwand district of restive Kandahar province on

Saturday.#2: In another development, two French aid workers were kidnapped at gunpoint on Friday in central Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. The two were abducted when a group of armed men entered into their organization's guesthouse in Neli, capital of Daikundi Province, late Friday, said Mohammad Nadir, the provincial police chief. "The armed men tied up the guards and dragged the aid workers into their vehicles," he said. The two French nationals were employed at the Action Contre la Faim (ACF) (Action Against Hunger) organization providing aid relief to Afghan communities at risk of acute malnutrition, the organization said in its website.

#3: A suicide bomber wounded one policeman when he detonated his explosives next to a passing police convoy in Daman district of Kandahar province on Saturday, district chief Mohammad Rasul said

.#4: Taliban militants attacked the district headquarters in Garda Serai district in the eastern province of Paktia on Saturday, wounding four policemen and capturing two more, district police chief Enayatullah said.

#5: One Afghan security guard was killed and three more were wounded on Saturday when their vehicle, which was providing security for a NATO supply convoy, struck a roadside bomb on the main highway between Khost and Paktia provinces in the east of the country, a district chief Lutfullah Baba Karkhel said.

CNN: OBAMA IS IN AFGHANISTAN

Obama makes first trip to Afghanistan

Story Highlights
Sen. Barack Obama arrives in Afghanistan for first stop of global tour
Obama's visit comes as U.S. officials want to send more troops to region
Obama also expected to visit several countries in Middle East, Europe

http://tinyurl.com/6zynek

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama arrived Saturday in Afghanistan on the first stop of his tour of the Middle East and Europe, aimed at boosting the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful's foreign policy credentials, his campaign confirmed.
The U.S. senator from Illinois also plans to visit Iraq, although details of the trip have have not been made public for security reasons.
Obama spoke briefly to a pool reporter about his trip just before leaving Washington.
"I'm looking forward to seeing what the situation on the ground is," Obama said. "I want to, obviously, talk to the commanders and get a sense, both in Afghanistan and in Baghdad of, you know, what the most, their biggest concerns are. And I want to thank our troops for the heroic work that they've been doing."
Asked if he would have tough talk for the leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama said he was "more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking."
"I think it is very important to recognize that I'm going over there as a U.S. senator. We have one president at a time, so it's the president's job to deliver those messages," Obama said. Watch Obama's foreign policy adviser discuss overseas trip »
The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar. Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died in July in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fight with about 200 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that U.S. officials are looking for ways to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid the resurgence of violence nearly seven years after the ousting of the Taliban government.
Gates said the hope is to send additional forces "sooner rather than later."

NEW VIDEO: LAURA INGRAHAM LOSES IT BEHIND THE SCENES AT FOX NEWS

Laura Ingraham, the ultra-Conservative talk radio host, lasted just one week at FOX NEWS and this video could be the reason why. Four of her producers QUIT after one week.

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Harry_Shearer/Found_Objects/FoundObjectsLauraIngraham_823.aspx

LAURA INGRAHAM LOSES IT BEHIND THE SCENES AT FOX!
by Bob Carson

First it was the infamous "Do it live" Bill O'reilly clip, now we see Laura Ingraham lose it behind scenes. In this video, Laura can be seen yelling and complaining at just about everyone on the set. It's no wonder 4 of her producers/assistants have left in the last few months.
These tirades are relatively mild compared to what Laura said behind the scenes about Diane Sollee, a guest on Ingraham's radio show, but they are none-to -less amusing. One thing I have to agree with Laura on- "This is a train wreck." I'm going to try to embed the video. If that doesn't work, the link below leads you to it.

WATCH LAURA INGRAHAM LOSE IT HERE:

http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Harry_Shearer/Found_Objects/FoundObjectsLauraIngraham_823.aspx

Comment: We hope we contributed to Laura Ingraham's downfall at FOX NEWS when we pointed out how she and Conservate blogger Michelle Malkin failed to provide all the facts re the Marines who were charged with killing innocent civilians in what became known as the "Haditha Street Incident."

Bill Corcoran, Editor: CORKSPHERE url: http://corksphere.blogspot.com

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST U.S. TROOPS: WATCH VIDEO

HALLIBURTON, the company which Vice President Dick Cheney was once CEO, has been providing food, water and other supplys for U.S. troops in Iraq, but this VIDEO tells the alarming story on how HALLIBURTON has been providing contaminated water and food to U.S. troops.

HALLIBURTON has been making money hand over fist off the Iraq War and the U.S. taxpayer is absorbing the cost of Dick Cheney's former company reaping huge profits.

Watch former HALLIBURTON employees talk about what they saw when they were in Iraq working for HALLIBURTON here: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/369.html

This is how George Bush and Dick Cheney support the troops.

And you can thank Congress for it too while you're at it. Simple biological warfare - poisoning the troops' water supply - is the most cost effective way of neutralizing the effectiveness of an armed force.

The problem is how do you get to the supply?

In Iraq, that's no problem. Bush and company have brought in private contractors to provide the water supply to troops and the private contractor,HALLIBURTON, Dick Cheney's former employer, has deemed it unnecessary to provide uncontaminated water to US troops serving in Iraq.

Take the money? Sure.

The actual safety of the water? Not our concern. Neither the flag-waving rabble-rousers of the Bush administration nor the gutless, venal cowards in Congress seem to care about the problem.

Too busy gearing up for the attack on Iran I guess.