Check out www.militaryvideos.net. It's all raw footage shot and edited by our troops. You'll need a bittorrent client to download the footage.
As a Macintosh/Computer guy, it's interesting that this kind of stuff is within the reach of privates now. Though QuickTime is still better then Windows media, hands down.
Of course, it just makes me hate the MSM even more. Why do I have to go to sites like this to get a sense of what are troops are seeing? Why aren't they showing these once/week on one of the cable news networks? For heaven sakes, give away 100 video cameras to our troops, and you could start an Iraq Channel!
Warning to hippies and others of delicate sensibilities. Our soldiers are the video game generation, so don't draw any conclusions from the tone of these videos. Even the nicest guys will gloat after killing someone who was shooting at them, it doesn't make them bad people, it makes them human.
Humans can commit acts of utter depravity that would make demons shudder, then turn around and commit acts of utter grace beyond any angel.
Again, that's why the MSM coverage of the war sucks. OK, there was a car bomb in Baghdad last night. Who? Why? Get out of your freaking hotels! I don't need a rehash of the Centcom press releases, I can read them online!
Comments (2)
Nice line under the title!
Ive got a blog with an opinionated variation too :-)
Posted by jamal | August 18, 2005 2:54 PM
Posted on August 18, 2005 14:54
Thats an intresting link there pardner.
Intrestingly, the coverage of the war in uk compared to coverage in other countries that do not support the war is very different. Middle Eastern countries and eastern countrie will show much more death and carnage, but obviously from one point of view. To get a true picture, speaking to people from countries such as spain gives a clearer view of the carnage and destruction happening on both sides.
Posted by jamal | August 21, 2005 7:30 PM
Posted on August 21, 2005 19:30