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Thursday, July 20, 2006

War, Unedited

Posted by on July 20 at 17:47 PM

Vietnam (and the nightly news) brought (edited) war into American living rooms. Iraq (and YouTube) are bringing (unedited) war onto American computers:

(Thanks to Andrew Sullivan.)


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You know--I'm not sure those really sound like what I imagined Israeli soldiers would sound like.

Now why would Americans be behind Lebanese lines, in a war zone, surrounded by sandbags, with access to a tranceiver with military aviation frequencies?

Excuse me if I'm missing the point of the above comment... but you know there are a bunch of Americans dropping bombs in Iraq, don't you?

Perhaps you're just alluding to the fact that the media has totally forgotten Iraq for the shiny new war going on.

Excuse me if I'm missing the point of the above comment... but you know there are a bunch of Americans dropping bombs in Iraq, don't you?

Perhaps you're just alluding to the fact that the media has totally forgotten Iraq for the shiny new war going on.

Ohhh-that *other* war. I just assumed we were looking at recent Lebanon coverage, filmed by special "advisors" to the Israelis.

My bad.

So much for sending our best and brightest to act as ambassadors of our country over there. It sounded like two or three K-Feds behind the camera.

Ugh, click through to YouTube and read all the comments. It's just the glaring reminder I didn't need to see of how Bush got elected in the first place.

My eyes. My beautiful eyes!

This is very mild, compared to some of the footage that the marines have posted.

It's the Blair Witch War!

there are lots of combat ones, but there are a few funny ones, too...

Another generation of American soldiers messed up by a bad president and bad foreign policy.

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