This video may be hard to take for a lot of people, but this is the reality of war. A young Marine is seriously wounded in Helmand Afghanisan and the helicopter evac crew brings him to a makeshift MASH-type hospital where his injuries are treated before he is transported to Germany.
This happened on Christmas Eve of this year.
WARNING: WATCH WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
YOUNG MARINE IS EVACUATED FROM AFGHANISTAN BATTLEFIED AFTER SUFFERING HORRENDOUS INJURIES ONE WEEK AGO
"OPERATION ANGRY COBRA"---AFGHANISTAN
Great video showing U.S. Marines on a mission into Afghanistan called "Operation Angry Cobra."
Plenty of action to start off your new year.
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A BELATED MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AFGHANISTAN. THIS VIDEO IS GREAT
I don't know the name of this GI, but I think his singing and the lryrics to the Christmas song are right on.
He sings his "Merry Christmas" song perched on a military vehicle at a FOB somewhere deep in the Afghanistan mountains.
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OBAMA: "WHAT HAS THE US/NATO ACCOMPLISHED AFTER 8 YEARS OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN?"
This old Afghanistan man seen in this video makes more sense about the Afghanistan war than all the Washington politicians rolled into one.
The man rattles off a string of things U.S. and NATO troops have done to wreak havoc on the Afghanistan people.
He keeps wondering what the U.S. and NATO troops have accomplished since invading Afghanistan 8 years ago.
So do I.
Bill Corcoran, editor, CORKSPHERE
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NEW YEAR'S EVE IN AFGHANISTAN: NEW VIDEO
The song is "Fight for Freedom" by the ChaseRockBand and the video is a mixture of footage showing our troops engaged in combat on New Year's Eve in Afghanistan.
Like it or not, President Obama has decided we need to try and convert the Afghanistan Army into a force capable of maintaining security in Afghanistan.
Can it be done? Some say it could take up to ten years before the Afghanistan Army is ready to assume control of security in Afghanistan.
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GRAPHIC VIDEO REVIEW OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS
Video takes a look at both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the cost in human lives for our military and civilians in both countries.
WARNING: SOME SCENES ARE VERY GRAPHIC
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THIS WHOLE AFGHANISTAN WAR IS CRAZY
What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan?
We are not into nation building and yet that looks exactly like what we are attempting to do in Afghanistan.
The Afghan central government under Hamid Karzai is in shambles and rife with corruption from top to bottom.
A new Pentagon survey shows that it could take ten years or more before the so-called Afghan Army is ready to take control of security.
The US military has been reduced to fighting skirmishes and firefights in the middle of nowhere in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan with nothing whatsoever to be gained by this type of military "mission."
The United Press today released the following story which is a sober reflection of conditions in Afghanistan and should give pause to anyone who thinks we should be fighting a war in Afghanistan.
The Al Qaeda organization has long ago left Afghanistan and now are in Pakistan and Yemen as well as many other countries around the world. Capturing or even killing Usama bin Laden wouldn't mean a damn thing because there is always going to be someone else to step in and assume control of Al Qaeda.
Look at it this way.
When Al Capone was sent to jail for tax evasion, the syndicate or mob didn't fold up. There were "lientants" willing and able to step right in and run the mafia and they did.
Here is what UPI reported today:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/30/Taliban-gaining-favor-in-Afghanistan/UPI-85291262210451/
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Corruption and a weak central government in Kabul leave many Afghan villagers with no other choice than to work with the Taliban shadow government.
NATO officials this week said the Taliban has a shadow government waiting with ministers chosen should the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai fall.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when U.S. and international forces removed the radical Sunni movement from power in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
With U.S. forces preoccupied with the war in Iraq, the Taliban have evolved into a vibrant insurgency, regaining control over several Afghan provinces.
Taliban commanders in the southern Afghan province of Helmand started issuing travel permits in August from the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" in order to allow travel to and from the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
NATO officials say the Taliban have shadow governments in 33 of the 34 Afghan provinces and local communities, concerned about the weakness of the central government, are looking to the Taliban for help, the Times of London reports.
Karzai won a contested second term in office through an election that was widely considered a sham. The Times said that while the Taliban enforce a strict form of Islamic law, many Afghans prefer that to the slow movement of a corrupt bureaucracy.
RUSH LIMBAUGH RUSHED TO HOSPITAL WITH SEVERE CHEST PAINS
Rush Limbaugh, the radio infotainer, who spends three hours every weekday bashing President Obama, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hawaii after suffering chest pains.
This is not the first time Limbaugh has been in the hospital in the past few years. Several years ago he went to a drug rehabilitation center to get off of Oxycotin, a pain drug he was taking. He spent four weeks in rehab.
During the Vietnam war, Limbaugh used a boil on his posterior to avoid being drafted.
Read CNN report here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/12/31/rush.limbaugh/index.html
FOUR CANADIAN TROOPS AND A FEMALE JOURNALIST KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
FIVE CANADIANS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN
Four Canadian soldiers and a journalist have been killed in Afghanistan
Thursday December 31,2009
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/148947/Five-Canadians-die-in-Afghanistan
includes picture of Michelle Lange, 34-year old journalist from Calgary, killed along with Canadian troops.
Four Canadian troops and a journalist have been killed in an explosion in Kandahar province, one of the most dangerous areas of southern Afghanistan, NATO has said.
The international coalition said the journalist, also from Canada, was travelling with the troops on a patrol near Kandahar city on Wednesday when they were attacked.A newspaper identified the journalist as Michelle Lang, a 34-year-old reporter with the Calgary Herald, who was on her first assignment to Afghanistan."We are all very saddened to hear this tragic news," Alberta health minister Ron Liepert said in a statement. "Michelle covered health issues with professionalism, accuracy and thoroughness. She was tenacious in her quest to inform Albertans, and for her diligence she was very well respected."
Brigadier General Daniel Menard, commander of coalition forces in Kandahar, told a newspaper the soldiers were conducting a community security patrol in order to gather information about daily life and how to maintain security.Kandahar is a hotbed of insurgency.
On December 24, eight people, including a child, were killed when a man driving a horse-drawn cart laden with explosives detonated it outside a guest house frequented by foreigners. The day before, a Canadian soldier was killed by a homemade bomb in the province. According to figures compiled by a news agency, the latest casualties bring to 32 the number of Canadian forces killed in Afghanistan this year.
U.S. MARINES CALL IT "ASSGHANISTAN" AND THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS WHY
Fighting in Afghanistan, or "Assghanistan" as the U.S. Marines call it, is a living hell as this video clearly shows. Day after day our soliders and Marines go into some remote area of "Assghanistan" searching for the Taliban and when they find they kill them. This is raw video with some very graphic footage.
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US MARINES DISH OUT DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN. RAW VIDEO
This video is a compilation of shots of the US Marines dishing out punishment and death to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Semper Fi!
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