CONTAMINATED WATER FOR TROOPS IN IRAQ. RELATED TO KBR (WATCH VIDEO)

Former Sgt. Casey J. Porter and other vets of the Iraq War talk about the contaminated water our troops were given during their tour in Iraq. The dirty water has caused many cases of illness and is suspected as contributing to the deaths of a number of soldiers deployed to Iraq. The water was provided to the troops by KBR, a company that was a subsidiary of Haliburton, the company which former Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO.

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AWESOME VIDEO OF APACHE-64 HELICOPTERS WIPING OUT THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

This video takes you right inside various Apache 64 helicopters as they sweep over Afghanistan wiping out Taliban fighters. Awesome footage.

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BYE BYE TALIBAN FIGHTERS: AH-64 HELICOPTER WIPES OUT TALIBAN IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE VIDEO)

The music is "I'm the One" and the action in this video is from an AH-64 helicopter on a run over the region near Kabul, Afghanistan as they destroy Taliban fighters.

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VIOLENT VIDEO OF IRAQ WAR: MUSIC: DISCIPLE'S "GAME ON"

This is raw video from the war in Iraq set to the music and lyrics of Disciple's "Game On."

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PENTAGON OFFICIAL REPORT ON SHOOTING AT CAMP LIBERTY THAT LEFT 5 GIS DEAD (SEE VIDEO)

According to this official Pentagon report, the GI who shot and killed five fellow soldiers at the stress clinic at Camp Liberty near the Baghdad airport today is in custody and did not take his life as was previously reported. The Pentagon report also covers the number of U.S. troops which are being sent to Afghanistan.

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SUICIDE BOMBER DETONATES HIS VEHICLE AT AN IRAQI CHECKPOINT. (WATCH VIDEO)

Four Iraqi soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a checkpoint in Iraq. The remains of the vehicle can be seen scattered all over the road.

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BREAKING NEWS: STRESSED OUT SOLDIER KILLS FOUR GIS AND HIMSELF AT CAMP LIBERTY IN IRAQ. (WATCH VIDEO)

The details are still sketchy, but MSNBC is reporting an American soldier walked into a stress clinic at Camp Liberty in Iraq today and killed four fellow soldiers before turning the weapon on himself. In all, 5 U.S. soldiers are dead and an undetermined number have been wounded. More details later.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30682652#30682652

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"STUCK IN THE SUCK"--THE IRAQ WAR--VIOLENT COMBAT FOOTAGE

The GIs in Iraq call the Iraq war being "stuck in the suck." This video captures our troops and air crews in violent combat against insurgents in Iraq.

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WORST EVER BATTLE IN IRAQ ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE LIVE AND UNCUT (WATCH VIDEO)

Video shows a series of fierce firefights in Iraq all caught on tape and uncut.

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INSURGENTS AMBUSH U.S. HUMVEE (WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE AND LANGUAGE)

Video takes you right inside a U.S. Humvee caught in an ambush by insurgents. WARNING: Graphic footage and language.

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CAPTURED VIDEO OF INSURGENTS PLANNING ATTACK ON U.S. CONVOY

This video of insurgents planning an attack on a U.S. convoy was captured after U.S. forces wiped out the insurgents before they could pull off their attack. Everyone you see in this video was killed.

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AFGHANS RIOT OVER U.S. AIR STRIKES THAT KILLS 147 CIVILIANS

Witnesses say deaths of 147 people in three villages came after a sustained bombardment by American aircraft.

Patrick Cockburn, in Herat, reports
Friday, 8 May 2009
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghans-riot-over-airstrike-atrocity-1681070.html

A girl injured in the Farah air strike
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Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians.

The riot started when people from three villages struck by US bombers in the early hours of Tuesday, brought 15 newly-discovered bodies in a truck to the house of the provincial governor. As the crowd pressed forward in Farah, police opened fire, wounding four protesters.

Traders in the rest of Farah city, the capital of the province of the same name where the bombing took place, closed their shops, vowing they would not reopen them until there is an investigation.

A local official Abdul Basir Khan said yesterday that he had collected the names of 147 people who had died, making it the worst such incident since the US intervened in Afghanistan started in 2001.

A phone call from the governor of Farah province, Rohul Amin, in which he said that 130 people had died, was played over the loudspeaker in the Afghan parliament in Kabul, sparking demands for more control over US operations.

U.S. SOLDIERS ARE AMBUSHED BY TALIBAN IN THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES---AFGHANISTAN (VIOLENT COMBAT VIDEO)

The mainstream media in the United States continues to downplay the war in Afghanistan---even sometimes as going so far as to call the Taliban a gaggle of ragtag fighters---however this video shows our troops are in the fight of their life in Afghanistan which has been called "the graveyard of empires." The U.S. Army troops shown in this violent combat video won't be spending time with their mothers on Mother's Day, but instead will be trying to keep their asses from being blown off by a relentless Taliban which are showing signs of getting stronger in Afghanistan. We wish just one news outlet could devote one minute showing a video like this to the American public, but that is asking too much as the media pulls out all the stops to dig up any trite story to report just so they won't have to report on the war in Afghanistan.
Why is this?
The answer is simple. Very few people in the mainstream media in the United States have ever worn the uniform of any branch of the United States military and so they couldn't care less what is happening to our troops in Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
We, however, will continue to bring to our blog viewers, who now number over 157,000 since we started blogging on the wars a little over a year ago, what the 200,000 young men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq go through on a daily basis.
It boils down to this. If you have someone in the military, you care about the war, but if you haven't got a member of your family or a close friend in the military then the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are a distraction from the daily TV fare of car chases and the latest on creeps like Drew Peterson.
There is one way to correct all this.
Re-instate the DRAFT and suddenly you will see people interested in what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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U.S. SOLDIERS ATTACK AND KILL 12-YEAR OLD IRAQI BOY AFTER THEY SUSPECT HE TOSSED A GRENADE AT THEIR CONVOY

U.S. soldiers, attacked, kill a 12-year-old Iraqi boy

By Ali Abass and Jack Dolan McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/67862.html

MOSUL, Iraq — American soldiers opened fire and killed a 12-year old boy after a grenade hit their convoy in Mosul on Thursday.

The boy was found with ten thousand Iraqi dinars in his hand - worth less than $9. U.S. officials said the money is evidence of a disturbing new trend.

"We have every reason to believe that insurgents are paying children to conduct these attacks or assist the attackers in some capacity, undoubtedly placing the children in harm's way," a U. S. military spokesman wrote in an email on Saturday.

But eyewitnesses said the boy, identified as Omar Musa Salih, was standing by the side of the road selling fruit juice - a common practice in Iraq -- and had nothing to do with the attack.

A friend, Ahmed Jassim, 15, said he was selling cans of Pepsi nearby when he heard the grenade explode. He dove behind a parked car, then heard the roar of machine gun fire. "When the shooting was over and the patrol went away, I stood and I saw Omar on the ground covered with blood," Jassim said.

Another witness, Ahmed IzAldeen, 56, said he saw the person who threw the grenade. It wasn't the boy, but a man in his twenties, he said. IzAldeen said he saw the man standing behind a truck holding the grenade as the American patrol approached.

Military officials said they're sure the boy was part of the assault on the convoy. "Coalition forces fired on two of three individuals positively identified as involved in the attack, killing one, who they later discovered was a 12-year-old boy," the email said.

SHOULD OBAMA RETHINK THE MILITARY OBJECTIVE IN AFGHANISTAN? (WATCH VIDEO AND YOU DECIDE)

There is a raging debate going on in Washington right now over whether the President Obama decision to send in upwards of 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan is the right thing to do.
In this video, you will see British and Soviet journalists describe what happened when Britain and Russia tried to conquer Afghanistan. It was a disaster. Source: http://bravenewfilms.org/

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AFGHAN CIVILIANS SLAUGHTERED: DOD MAKES EXCUSES: CNN USES DOD "SPIN" (GRUESOME VIDEO)

Yesterday, while Sec. of State Clinton was expressing “deep regret” over Monday’s civilian deaths in Bala Baluk, Afghanistan, US military spokespeople were telling a different story.

Source: http://bravenewfilms.org/

After similar incidents, one of the usual claims made is that the civilian casualties are inevitable since villagers are “used as human shields by the Taliban” but this time, DOD is spinning at a whole new level, claiming that the Taliban rounded up civilians and killed them with grenades – then loaded the bodies into trucks to use are an anti-American photo op.

It has been estimated by the Red Cross that 130 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, were slaughtered in the U.S. raids.

CNN quickly had Barbara Starr on air repeating the DOD version within hours of the Clinton apology.

Unfortunately for the DOD spinmeisters, the International Committee of the Red Cross has detailed information from the scene – and given the ICRC’s normal reticence and careful neutrality, their credibility certainly beats that of a source that once before attempted to pass off a report from Ollie North that no civilians were killed in a similar attack as a report from a legitimate embedded journalist.

As noted yesterday, the ICRC not only sent investigators after the fact but also had “contacted all sides to warn them that there were civilians and injured people in the area” in advance:

Tribal elders in the villages called the ICRC during the fighting to report civilian casualties and ask for help. As soon as we heard of the attacks we contacted all sides to warn them that there were civilians and injured people in the area.“

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AMAZING VIDEO OF TURRET GUNNERS POINT OF VIEW DURING A VIOLENT PATROL IN AFGHANISTAN. (MUST SEE)

Not often do you get to see what a turret gunner sees during a patrol in the mountains of Afghanistan, but in this video you are given an inside look from the turret gunners POV. WARNING: Some of the language is explicit.

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REMARKABLE AND GRISLY FOOTAGE OF VEHICLE DETONATED OUTSIDE OF CAMP EGGERS IN AFGHANISTAN (TENSE VIDEO)

This new video shows the aftermath of a vehicle detonated outside of Camp Eggers in Afghanistan. The scenes are grisly and the destruction is widespread. Listen as U.S. troops and Afghans discuss the blast.

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NEW VIDEO OF 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION IN BRUTAL FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN (GREAT VIDEO)

Video shows the 10th Mountain Division in an intense and brutal firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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WHY DOESN'T THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SHOW VIDEO CLIPS LIKE THIS ONE FROM FIREBASE VEGAS IN AFGHANISTAN? (WATCH VIDEO HERE)

It boggles the mind how the mainstream media, especially cable news, can come up with so many mundane stories to report on, but have collectively made a decision to NOT cover the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where a combined 200,000 young Americans are deployed. This video clip should be shown on CNN, MSNBC and FOX, but it never will because the vast majority of the people who work in the newsrooms of these cable news stations NEVER spent ONE day in the military. This clip shows a violent firefight at Firebase Vegas between U.S. troops and the Taliban deep inside the mountains of Afghanistan. WARNING: Some of the language is salty, but this is real war and not a video game.

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD SINGS "JUST A DREAM" AS A SALUTE TO OUR FALLEN HEROES. (WATCH VIDEO)

Singer Carrie Underwood sings "Just a Dream" as a salute to our fallen heroes from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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TOP U.S. COMMANDER IN IRAQ SAYS TROOPS MAY STAY LONGER IN MOSUL

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. general in Iraq hedged his bets Friday about whether U.S. combat troops will pull out of the tumultuous city of Mosul on schedule next month, a milestone in the handover of Iraq's security to its own troops.

http://tinyurl.com/o9se3z

Mosul is Iraq's third largest city and a stronghold for al-Qaida and other Sunni militant violence despite markedly improved safety in most of the rest of the country. It is a key test of the security contract signed by the United States and Iraq last year that would pull U.S. forces out of the country by 2011.

Gen. Raymond Odierno said U.S. and Iraqi forces are in the midst of a neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweep of Mosul ahead of a June 30 deadline to hand over security for the city to Iraqi forces.

AC DC PERFORM "THUNDERSTRUCK" TO THIS ACTION-PACKED COMBAT VIDEO OF THE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS (MUST SEE)

AC DC perform "Thunderstruck" to this action-packed video of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plenty of fast-paced action

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STARTLING VIDEO: AFGHAN CHILDREN VOW TO BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS AFTER U.S. FORCES BOMB WOMEN AND CHILDREN (WATCH VIDEO)

The Afghanistan war has taken a turn for the worse and because U.S. and NATO forces continue to miss their targets with air strikes and kill innocent Afghan women and children many of the children of Afghanistan say they will become suicide bombers and seek revenge for the loss of their parents on American troops. The situation in Afghanistan is going from bad to worse and the mainstream media in the United States doesn't give a damn.

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FOX NEWS AND RUSH LIMBAUGH WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL IRAQI WOMEN ARE TERRORISTS (WATCH VIDEO)

FOX NEWS and idiots like RUSH LIMBAUGH would have their viewers and listeners believe all the beautiful IRAQI women seen in this video are TERRORISTS. FOX NEWS and LIMBAUGH tell their viewers and listeners that EVERYONE in the prison at GITMO are TERRORISTS when there is no proof because there hasn't been a trial for the 240 inmates at GITMO. The sad part about all this is there are actually people in the UNITED STATES who believe every word they hear mentioned on FOX NEWS or uttered by RUSH LIMBAUGH.

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FORMER U.S. SOLDIER GUILTY OF RAPING 14-YEAR OLD IRAQI GIRL

US ex-soldier guilty of Iraq rape

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8039257.stm

A jury in the US state of Kentucky has found a former private soldier guilty of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family.

Steven Green, 24, faces a possible death sentence for his crimes.

Green was discharged from the army because of an apparent personality disorder before his role in the affair came to light.

Four other soldiers are serving sentences of between five and 110 years for their roles in the 2006 attack.

Three had admitted holding down Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, raping her and then killing her, her parents and her younger sister at the family's home in Mahmudiya before torching the building.

Mr Green was discharged from the 101st Airborne Division before the case came to light.
He was the first ex-soldier to be charged under a US law that allows prosecution for crimes committed overseas.

His sentencing hearing will begin on Monday.

In August 2007, Private Jesse Spielman was convicted of conspiracy to rape and murder and sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in the incident.

Three other soldiers pleaded guilty and received sentences between five and 100 years under plea agreements with prosecutors.

AFGHANISTAN WAR TO COST MORE THAN IRAQ WAR

The price tag for running the war in Afghanistan will outstrip the cost of the conflict in Iraq next year, according to budget documents released today by the Pentagon.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/cz7bmp

Afghanistan, in the words of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now supposed to be the Pentagon’s “main effort” and “strategic focus.” This budget makes it official: The Department is requesting a $130 billion “overseas contingency operations” fund, of which the Afghanistan campaign will receive the largest share.

Vice Adm. Steve Stanley, the director of force structure, resources and assessment on the Joint Staff, told reporters that the budget request represents “where you’re going to first see the swing of not only dollars or resources, but combat capability” from Iraq to Afghanistan.

“The money requested here – about $65 billion for Afghanistan –actually exceeds the $61 billion that we’re requesting for Iraq,” he said. “So that’s the first time in our war costs request.”

Those numbers are based on keeping an average of around 100,000 troops in Iraq and 68,000 in Afghanistan. Troop levels are supposed to come down gradually in Iraq over the next year, and these numbers are based on plans to bring troop levels down to around 50,000 by the end of the fiscal year, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale. In addition to paying for a plus-up of troops, the Afghanistan portion of the operations budget will pay for new equipment, like the scaled-down version of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected truck that will be customized for the primitive roads of Afghanistan.

Of course, none of these dollar figures are carved in granite. These are just budget promises, based on certain assumptions about how the wars will progress in the year to come. Afghanistan and Iraq have a habit of shredding such predictions. And then, there’s Congress’ habit of packing war spending bills with things that go oink…

The inclusion of the “contingency operations” money in the base Pentagon budget marks a departure with the budgeting practices of the Bush administration, which paid for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan largely through “emergency” supplemental appropriations.

That practice worried lawmakers and budget watchdogs, who argued that the practice limited oversight and encouraged profligate spending. We’ll be taking a closer look at this $664 billion budget, which is supposed to set the template for more disciplined spending within the Department of Defense.

FIERCE FIREFIGHT ERUPTS AS U.S.MARINES ARE AMBUSHED IN ZAIDON AFGHANISTAN (RAW LANGUAGE VIDEO)

A U.S. Marine platoon is on a quiet patrol in Zaidon, Afghanistan when suddenly they are ambushed by the Taliban. All hell breaks loose. You can hear the Marines screaming to take cover and return fire. WARNING: The language is salty.

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NEW VIDEO SHOWS U.S. MARINES AMBUSHED BY TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN (LIVE ACTION VIDEO)

This video shows a U.S. Marine platoon ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The language can be rough at times. Plenty of action.

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THE AFGHANISTAN WAR--IT'S STILL THERE, BUT MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORES IT. (WATCH THIS VIDEO)

This video is a compilation of battle scenes from the Afghanistan war which underscore there is still a violent war going on in Afghanistan, however the mainstream media in the United States has chosen to completely overlook the battles that are being waged in Afghanistan. Some of the scenes in this video show U.S. soldiers injured in battle.

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