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Robert McNamara, the architect of Vietnam, says, “It’s wrong, what we’re doing.”

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Not debatable: No WMD, 500 dead

Depending on one’s point of view and who you want to believe, the world is a safer place now, or not, and America did a noble thing by pre-empting an evil threat in Iraq, or not. These are debatable opinions.

However, what is not debatable is that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, no connections in Iraq to the terrorists of 9/11 have been documented, 500 American soldiers are dead, thousands more are maimed for life, and President Bush has yet to attend a funeral of one of those young soldiers.

Maybe the Bush administration realizes that funerals are not very positive photo-ops and not many campaign contributors are found at these events. But this is only my opinion.

This story reminded me of how horrible it is that the US government is not allowing media to cover the returning bodies of the soldiers who die in Iraq. These people give the ultimate sacrifice and they receive NO recognition. In Canada one of our soldiers died in combat and our Prime Minister went to pay his respects. This man received a heroes welcome as his body returned home. On the other hand Dubya has not been to a single funeral!

VIA BOING BOING “Joi Ito’s posted a night-vision video from an Apache helicopter shooting Iraqis who were allegedly trying to blow the helicopter out of the sky with a stinger missile. The scene is graphic (guts are warm, so they glow when they get splashed on the street) so don’t watch it if you are easily upset.”

Do you want to see what war is really like? War is not what you see on TV… I’m not sure if these guys were going to fire on the helicopter or not. In the longer BiTorrent version of this clip it appears as though they have some sort of weapon…

Donwload this video clip.

If you have BitTorrent you can download the longer version here:

http://www.militaryvideos.net/torrents/apache_mission_in_iraq.avi.torrent

If the download doesnt work search click here…

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