DON'T MISS THIS VIDEO---TRIBUTE TO ALL THE SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN--MEN AND WOMEN--TAPED ONE WEEK AGO

This video is a collection of images made just a week ago in Afghanistan and shows our troops engaged in combat with the Taliban in the rugged countryside. The music accompaniment is superb.

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MUST SEE VIDEO: FRANTIC FIREFIGHT BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND TALIBAN IN CHOWKAY VALLEY AFGHANISTAN

This video was made by a GI with the 173rd Airborne as they battle the Taliban in Chowkay Valley Afghanistan. The language can be rough at times, but this is real war and not a video game.

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AWESOME WAR FOOTAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE)

This is a great video which shows our troops in battle in Afghanistan. Turn up your speakers and watch as our brave young warriors do what they are trained to do.

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YOU WON'T FIND THIS ON FOX NEWS: STARVING AFGHAN FAMILY BECAUSE OF U.S. AIR STRIKES (WATCH VIDEO)

Fox News has been notorious for never putting on the air what is REALLY happening in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This video is a case in point. An Afghan father says he would rather die than live the way they are living after U.S. air strikes destroyed his home and any means of him making a living.

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RELATIVES OF SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN DECRY LACK OF COVERAGE BECAUSE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SPECTACLE

The relatives of a soldier killed in Afghanistan are lashing out at the mainstream media, and echoing what New York Rep. Peter King, said last week about how so little coverage is given to the Iraq and Afghanistan war and to our soliders killed in the wars and how the media has gone totally bonkers over the death of Michael Jackson.

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A day before New York Rep. Peter King called Michael Jackson a “pervert” unworthy of nonstop media coverage, the aunt of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on the same day Jackson died asked why her nephew's death went virtually unnoticed while the King of Pop got memorial shrines across the country.

"Mr. Jackson received days of wall-to-wall coverage in the media," Martha Gillis wrote to the Washington Post. "Where was the coverage of my nephew or the other soldiers who died that week?"

Gillis' nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, died in Kheyl, Afganistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Bradshaw, of Steilacoom, Wash., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Fort Richardson, Alaska. He was one of at least 13 U.S. soldiers to die in Afghanistan since Jackson's death on June 25.

Bradshaw's mother, Mary, said she agreed with Gillis, saying the nonstop coverage of Jackson's death has become "totally ridiculous" and laughable.

"I can watch the news many nights and there's no mention of what's going on in Afghanistan or Iraq and there's boys dying over there," Bradshaw told FOXNews.com. "Oh God, I can't talk."

Gillis, of Springfield, Va., could not be reached for comment. In her letter to the Washington Post, she described Bradshaw as a "thoroughly decent person with a wry sense of humor" who loved history, particularly the Civil War.

"He had old-fashioned values and believed that military service was patriotic and that actions counted more than talk," Gillis wrote. "He wasn't much for talking, although he could communicate volumes with a raised eyebrow."

Bradshaw, who graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, was the product of a military family. His father, Paul, is a retired National Guard helicopter pilot, and his mother is a retired Army nurse.

"He was a search-and-rescue volunteer, an altar boy, a camp counselor," Gillis' letter continued.

"He carried the hopes and dreams of his parents willingly on his shoulders. What more than that did Michael Jackson do or represent that earned him memorial 'shrines,' while this soldier's death goes unheralded?"

Gillis said the only media outlets that covered Bradshaw's death were in his hometown of Steilacoom, Wash., and those where he was stationed before his deployment in March.

Gillis' sentiment echoes that of King, the Long Island, N.Y., congressman who called on society to stop "glorifying" Jackson in a YouTube video posted on Monday.

King said Jackson had been excessively praised in the days after his death while society ignored the efforts of teachers, police officers and veterans. In the two-minute video, King called the "day in and day out" coverage of Jackson's death "too politically correct."

"Let's knock out the psychobabble," he said in the video, which was taped outside an American Legion Hall in his district. "He was a pervert, a child molester; he was a pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him, day in and day out, what does it say about us as a country? I just think we're too politically correct."

King, who is among the possible Republican contenders to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, acknowledged that Jackson "may have been a good singer" and "did some dancing," but he blasted the King of Pop as someone who could not be trusted around children.

"There's nothing good to say about this guy," King continued. "But the bottom line is, would you let your child or grandchild be in the same room as Michael Jackson?"

BREAKING NEWS: 7 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

7 US troops killed throughout Afghanistan

Published: 7/6/09, 4:05 PM EDTBy FISNIK ABRASHI

KABUL (AP) - Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year - and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north.

Separately, Taliban militants claimed on a militant Web site that they were holding an American soldier whom the U.S. military says insurgents might have captured last week. The Taliban statement, however, did not include any proof, such as a picture or the soldier's name.

Four of the deaths Monday came in an attack on a team of U.S. military trainers in the relatively peaceful north, bringing into focus the question of whether the U.S. is committing enough troops to secure a country larger than Iraq in both population and land mass.

On a visit to Moscow, President Barack Obama said it's too soon to measure the success of his new strategy in Afghanistan. He said the U.S. can take another look at the situation after the country's presidential elections on Aug. 20.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in some respects, progress has been "insignificant" in Afghanistan. He said it's hard to say how quickly the situation will improve.

Obama has ordered 21,000 additional American troops to this country, mainly in the south where Taliban militants have made a violent comeback after a U.S.-led coalition topped them from power in late 2001. The U.S. expects 68,000 troops here by year's end, double last year's total but still half as many as now in Iraq.

The four American soldiers killed in the north died in a roadside bombing of their vehicle in Kunduz province, said Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a U.S. military spokesman. The soldiers were training Afghan forces, he said.