Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, July 20, 2006
YouTube War
It is rapidly becoming the first YouTube war and there is no shortage of footage from soldiers in Iraq.

There's music in a lot of the soldiers' videos, but precious little uplift. In "The War Tapes," one soldier/auteur complains frequently about the risks he and his comrades take to protect the property of the Halliburton subsidiary subcontracted to feed the troops: "Why the f--- am I sitting out here guarding a truck full of cheesecake?" he laments. After another guardsman supplies a Bush Administration-approved justification for their presence (freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people, stability in the Middle East), the cameraman asks, "tell me how you really feel." Deadpan, he continues: "After that happens, maybe we can buy everybody in the world a puppy."


It's getting a lot harder to hide the truth. Television brought Vietnam into American living rooms and the net is bringing the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan into America via every portal. Good. People need to know the truth, need to see the horror that happens when boobs rush to war. I hope that the days of eagerly marching off to war (Civil War, WWI, etc.) become a historical curiousity.
War is death and dismemberment and horror and terror and filth and destruction. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided.
Written at 4:53 PM by Lynne.
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Blogger Greyhair said...
Wow. Great coupla posts Lynne. Perfect series.
5:11 PM  
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