The mainstream media in the United States NEVER actually tells the real truth about what is going on in a war zone.
For lack of another word, we call it "censorship."
In this video, titled "Fire Mission" by Casey J. Porter, a former Sgt. in the Army who served two tours in Iraq, you get to see and hear two soldiers talk about what they saw and their story is enhanced by raw video showing exactly what they are saying.
It is not a pretty picture of how the U.S. military acts in a war zone like Iraq.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/zxdkgtNs1dY&hl=en_US&fs=1
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Submitted by BILL CORCORAN, editor, CORKSPHERE
Monday, January 4, 2010
UNBELIEVEABLE VIDEO OF TWO SOLDIERS TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN IRAQ---CASEY J. PORTER FILM
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TWO GIs WERE KILLED BY LOB BOMBS, BUT MILITARY SAID IT WAS SMALL ARMS FIRE: FILM BY CASEY J. PORTER
This video by Casey J. Porter, who served two tour in Iraq, is titled "A.O.--Area of Operations" and in the video two U.S. soldiers are killed by LOB bombs, but the U.S. Military or Dept. of Defense (DOD) said they were killed by small arms fire.
Naturally, the media in the United States reported the two soldiers that were killed were killed by small arms fire rather than the new LOB bomb the Iraqi insurgents use.
You really have to see this EXCELLENT video.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/AeFs4R64ktE&hl=en_US&fs=1
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VIDEO OF AFGHAN MIDWIVES ON FRONTLINE TO SAVE LIVES
Afghanistan has the second highest infant mortality rate in the world. The United States is number one.
In this video, you see a midwife visiting a home to help some of the young Afghan mothers and their infants.
WATCH VIDEO HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/17427158;_ylt=AoCGANse5f1jfz83uFdlU6QBS5Z4
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SITUATION WORSENS IN AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING 8 CIA AGENTS
The mainstream media in the United States continues to avoid telling the American public the truth about the dire situation in Afghanistan.
In this video from an Afghan news outlet, they describe the Afghan situation as worsening. In addition to the suicide bombing that claimed the lives of 8 top CIA agents, there has been an attack on a Canadian convoy that killed four Canadian soldiers and a female Canadian journalist.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, protesters have taken to the streets to condemn the bombings by U.S. Predator or Drone unmanned planes that have killed scores of innocent Afghan women and children.
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REPORTED BY BILL CORCORAN, editor, CORKSPHERE: http://corksphere.blogspot.com
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ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 4 US SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN
NATO: Afghan blast kills 4 U.S. troops
Deaths mark first U.S. fatalities linked to hostile action in country this year
The Associated Press
updated 1:47 a.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 4, 2010
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34684756/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
KABUL, Afghanistan - Four U.S. service members have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday. The British Ministry of Defense separately reported the death of one of the country's soldiers in an explosion.
A statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the U.S. service members took place Sunday in southern Afghanistan, but did not give further details on the location or the victims' branch of service.
The deaths are the first U.S. fatalities attributable to hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One U.S. service member has died of non-combat causes so far in 2010.
The British soldier died while on foot patrol Sunday in Helmand province, the ministry said.
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COOL VIDEO OF US MARINES IN FIREFIGHTS IN BALA BALUK AFGHANISTAN
This is a really cool video of US Marines in various stages of firefights against the Taliban in Bala Baluk Afghanistan. Plenty of action.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/Oy2wxR3YJsc&hl=en_US&fs=1
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EXPERIENCING AFGHANISTAN: VIDEO OF WHAT OUR TROOPS ARE FACING
Video shows various areas of Afghanistan and what our troops are experiencing in this totally hostile country. Good song accompanies video.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/X1NuOXarvK4&hl=en_US&fs=1
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
VIOLENT VIDEO: AFGHAN ARMY SHOOTS INTO CROWD OF PROTESTERS
The stated goal of the U.S. Military is to train the Afghan Army to take control of security of their country, however this is not what we had in mind.
In this video, you see the Afghan Army firing into a crowd of protesters.
The video is very graphic at times and is in the language of Afghanistan.
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WATCH VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/v/N8Yxj2T8jtM&hl=en_US&fs=1
or you may have to use this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Yxj2T8jtM
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HOT AND COLD IN AFGHANISTAN---VIDEO
Our troops in Afghanistan have some downtime and in this video you get to see how they use it.
The song is "Hot 'n Cold" by Katie Perry
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BUZZ FLASH EXCLUSIVE: MILITARY REPEATEDLY FAILS TO MEET RECRUITMENT GOALS, BUT DOD COOKS THE BOOKS
Guest Contribution
A BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY
http://www.buzzflash.com/
By Paul Sullivan
On December 28, the Christian Science Monitor published an op-ed that was misleading – to the point of being pure propaganda. The lead sentence is so far from reality that I stayed late at the office on New Year’s Eve to kill this myth dreamed up by someone who must read military press releases and then regurgitate them whole.
The CSM column by Jamie Holmes falsely claimed that, "For the first time since the establishment of all-volunteer forces in 1973, the US military has met all of its recruiting goals." Not only is this wrong, it ignores a mountain of evidence clearly available in the press showing the military remains in crisis.
In reality, the military failed to reach new enlistment goals for the past decade. The military accomplished this by manipulating, and thereby significantly lowering, the number of new recruits needed to fill the ranks. The military accomplished this voodoo bookkeeping by relying upon more than 500,000 individual National Guard and Reserve service members to fill recruiting shortages.
The true number is even higher because many Guard and Reserve activated and deployed twice or more.
Read complete article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/
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CAPTURED TALIBAN VIDEO OF DIRECT HIT ON U.S. CHINOOK HELICOPTER
This video shows members of the Taliban firing on U.S. positions and eventually making a direct hit on a U.S. Chinook helicopter in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/Ji7SE8DQsbc&hl=en_US&fs=1
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AFGHAN SCHOOL GIRLS HAVE ACID THROWN INTO THEIR FACES BY TALIBAN
The Taliban are bound and determined to keep young Afghan girls from getting an education.
In this gruesome video, you see what happened to two Afghan sisters who were walking to school when a member of the Taliban drove by them on a motorcyle and tossed acid into their faces.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC
WATCH VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/v/p2MkoTZZ0Ns&hl=en_US&fs=1
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FANTASTIC COMBAT FOOTAGE IN THIS WAR MUSIC VIDEO: SONG "WE ARE THE WORLD"
This video is a collection of sometimes violent combat footage all set to the song "We Are the World."
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http://www.youtube.com/v/of7GCzA_cgs&hl=en_US&fs=1
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SUPERB WAR MUSIC VIDEO: SONG: "BRING ME TO LIFE"
This video is a collection of US troops in action against insurgents and the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The song is "Bring Me To Life"
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
THE BUSH/CHENEY LEGACY: AFGHAN WOMEN TURN TO SELF-IMMOLATION
This video is another example of the President Bush and Vice President Cheney legacy.
Ever since the United States under Bush and Cheney decided to invade and occupy Afghanistan eight years ago, there have been growing numbers of Afghanistan women who have turned to self-immolation rather than live under the squalid conditions brought on by the war and their abusive husbands.
In this video you will see some of the more horrible results of Afghan women setting themselves on fire.
WE WARN YOU IN ADVANCE THIS VIDEO IS VERY, VERY GRAPHIC.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/5R_392wmPXE&hl=en_US&fs=1
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Submitted by BILL CORCORAN, editor, CORKSPHERE
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YOUNG AFGHAN WOMEN BURN THEMSELVES RATHER THAN REMAIN IN ABUSIVE MARRIAGE
WARNING: This video may be hard to take for some people.
In this video you see young Afghan women who were married when they were only seven and ten years old describe how their husbands were drug addicts and refused to stop taking drugs and the young women felt the only way to get out of the situation was to set themselves on fire.
The video shows some of the young women in a hospital in Afghanistan and they describe what drove them to such extremes.
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ABUSED AFGHAN WOMEN OPT FOR SUICIDE
This video shows there a record number of Afghan women who are electing to commit suicide rather than remain in an abusive marriage.
This video takes you inside an Afghanistan hospital and you get to see and hear some of the women who have tried to commit suicide.
The alarming number of women committing or trying to commit suicide in Afghanistan is just another example of the waste of human lives as the result of the invasion of Afghanistan eight years ago by the BUSH REGIME.
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AFGHAN POLICE DEFECTORS ARE FIGHTING FOR THE TALIBAN: NEW VIDEO
They walk around carrying identification showing they were trained by BLACKWATER, the security firm from the United States with ties to former VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, but these former Afghan police officers are defectors who have left the ranks of the Afghan Army and now work for the Taliban in helping to defeat the United States troops in Afghanistan.
This is just another example of what a mess we have got ourselves into in Afghanistan.
Watch this video to learn more about the defectors to the Taliban.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/pXxtTZPi5Rs&hl=en_US&fs=1
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DESERTIONS UNDERMINE AFGHAN ARMY
The United States government and our military in Afghanistan claim the Afghanistan National Army consists of 90,000 troops, but the truth is it is more like 40,000 because of desertions and Afghan troops going AWOL.
According to President Obama, the whole mission in Afghanistan is to train the Afghan National Army to eventually take control of security for the country.
However, there are many in the U.S. Army who claim the Afghan National Army is so undisciplined that desertions and AWOL go unpunished and the ANA is just a shell of what an army should be.
In this video, you will see and hear what they are saying on the ground in Afghanistan about the Afghan National Army. It's NOT a pretty picture.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/NeSZgS6r3YI&hl=en_US&fs=1
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WAR FOOTAGE: THE BATTLE FOR AFGHANISTAN
Video shows multiple combat footage from the Afghanistan war that can be extremely brutal at times.
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Friday, January 1, 2010
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR WHAT OUR SOLDIERS ARE SAYING ABOUT AFGHAN ARMY: ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE HIGH ON DRUGS
This is a brand new video and you are going to be stunned when you hear what our troops are saying about the Afghan Army that we are supposed to be training to takeover security in Afghanistan.
Most of the Afghans are high on drugs and one Afghan soldier was so "bombed" he put his helmet on backwards.
President Obama and Gen. MacChrystal say our purpose in Afghanistan is to train the Afghan Army to an eventual takeover of all security.
At the rate it is going, this could be another 10 or 20 years because the Afghans are totally undisciplined and have no understanding of what it is to be a soldier.
Why the hell don't we just pack up and get out of Afghanistan? Let President Hamid Karzai and his "crooks" in Kabul figure the whole mess out.
Not one more soldier or Marine should have to die for this fiasco that President Bush and Vice President Cheney got us into and for some ungodly reason President Obama feels we should continue this war.
COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, editor, CORKSPHERE
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MARINES POUND TALIBAN--RAW VIDEO
Video shows Marines pounding the Taliban in Helmand Afghanistan. The number of firefights and skirmishes between U.S. forces and the Taliban is increasing.
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A SOLDIER TELLS HIS STORY
Video shows a U.S. soldier telling his story about what it is like in a combat zone.
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VIDEO: TALIBAN AMUBSH
The headline says it all.
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NEW VIDEO OF AERIAL RESCUE IN AFGHANISTAN
This video starts out kind of slow, but then it really kicks in and you see an aerial rescue team at work in Afghanistan.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/rWaehyJb0pg&hl=en_US&fs=1
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VIOLENT VIDEO: MARINES IN COMBAT: THE DOG DOESN'T DIE
An intense video showing U.S. Marines in combat. Abundant use of curse words. FYI: The dog shown in this video doesn't die.
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NEW YORK TIMES VIDEO DESCRIBES DEATH OF GI IN KORENGAL VALLEY AFGHANISTAN
This New York Times video is an education piece explaining how the Taliban are gaining strength in Afghanistan.
In this video, one GI is killed during a patrol in Kunar Province.
You really should watch this video.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/69Gjy-x9aO0&hl=en_US&fs=1
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82nd AIRBORNE APACHES BLAST ROADSIDE BOMBERS
Ground control directs Apache helicopters on a target of Taliban roadside bombers.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/1pzXmcdMJUk&hl=en_US&fs=1
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MARINES LAUNCH MAJOR OFFENSIVE
Over 21,000 new American forces have moved into Afghanistan and this video shows the U.S. Marines launching a new offensive against the Taliban.
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NEW VIDEO: MARINES BATTLE TALIBAN
Video shows U.S. Marines in a battle with the Taliban in Helmand Afghanistan. The song is "Extreme Ways" by Moby.
TURN UP YOUR SOUND
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http://www.youtube.com/v/k_WQ8tbeQqI&hl=en_US&fs=1
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