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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US and British officials must expose their leaders’ lies about Iraq – as I did over Vietnam