"GENERATION KILL" YOU TUBE VIDEO MARINES USE ROCK 'N ROLL TO GET THEM THROUGH WAR

"Generation Kill" airs on HBO tonight at 9 PM and 11 PM EST. and tells the story of how a Marine Unit used rock 'n roll to get them through the early stages of the Iraq War.

Here is a YouTube video of "Generation Kill."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y_5vxM8PYM

9 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN AP REPORTS

Official: Insurgents kill 9 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

15 more U.S. troops wounded

By JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5885786.html

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.

The attack on the U.S. outpost came the same day a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol killed 24 people, while U.S. coalition and Afghan soldiers killed 40 militants elsewhere in the south.

The militant assault on the American troops began around 4:30 a.m. in a dangerous region close to the Pakistan border and lasted throughout the day.

Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes and a mosque in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.

Nine U.S. troops were killed in the attack, a Western official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the troops' nationalities.

NATO confirmed nine of its soldiers had been killed and 15 wounded. Four Afghan soldiers also were wounded, NATO said.

"Although no final assessment has been made, it is believed insurgents suffered heavy casualties during several hours of fighting," NATO said in a statement.

Read full story here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5885786.html

"GENERATION KILL" NEW HBO SERIES ABOUT IRAQ PREMIERES TONIGHT. FOX NEWS HATES IT

I'm looking forward to seeing the new series, Generation Kill," which premieres tonight on HBO at 8 and again at 11 CST.

The mini-series follows a combat unit in Iraq and shows what our troops are going though as they try to bring security to Iraq.

FOX NEWS doesn't like it because they must feel the mini-series doesn't show our troops building a bowling alley or a soccer field.

Apparently nobody bothered to tell the FOX NEWS people that 160,000 Americans are engaged in a "war" in Iraq and that is why it is called the IRAQ WAR and not the IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

There are still roadside bombs going off all over Iraq and there are still U.S. soldiers and Marines getting killed in Iraq as anyone can see by simply logging on this site which chronicles the daily deaths and security incidents in both Iraq and Afghanistan: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

So "Generation Kill" airing tonight on HBO is a true story of what "war" is like in Iraq, and not the watered down version of the Iraq War FOX NEWS peddles to their unsuspecting and gullible audience.

It is worth seeing and if you miss the earlier airing of "Generation Kill" on HBO at 8 PM CST time you can catch a repeat of the show on HBO at 11 PM CST.

The FOX NEWS audience will most likely be tuned to their favorite "news station" to learn the latest about the twins, a boy and a girl, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had today or a car chase on an expressway somewhere in the United States.

Bill Corcoran, Chicago, Editor of CORKSPHERE, url: http://corksphere.blogspot.com
Former Cpl. (E-4) Sqd Ldr. United States Army Combat Engineers and a Korean War veteran.