Posted on 03/14/2005 8:07:38 AM PST by ken21
This is what they saw: a handful of American soldiers filmed through the green haze of night-vision goggles. Radio communication between two soldiers crackles in the background before it's drowned out by a heavy-metal soundtrack.
"Don't need your forgiveness," the song by the band Dope begins as images unfurl: armed soldiers posing in front of Bradley fighting vehicles, two women covered in black abayas walking along a dusty road, a blue-domed mosque, a poster of radical cleric Muqtada Sadr. Then, to the fast, hard beat of the music — "Die, don't need your resistance. Die, don't need your prayers" — charred, decapitated and bloody corpses fill the screen.
"It's like a trophy, something to keep," McCullough, 20, said back at his cramped living quarters at Camp Warhorse near Baqubah. "I was there. I did this."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
GIs shoot Iraq battle footage and edit it into music videos filled with death and destruction. And they display their work as entertainment.
the left has never had any problems with their "cinema verite" and its use as propaganda. nor has the american left any problem with moslem propaganda.
but expect complaints about the actual american gi's expressing their experiences.
That's the name of the game.
yeah, i'd forgotten about the los angeles times firing him.
add that to the nyt, usa today, and cbs-rather excursions into the "truth".
Good song - Chemical Brothers rock!
Or was that Crystal Method -
I must be getting senile in my old age - it was Crystal Method....
I have no problem with them doing this. Michael Moore and countless others have exploited our servicemembers to smear them. I guess because none of them has "journalist" in their occupation specialty, their recorded experiences are invalid and not to be trusted? The MSM is already beating up "bloggers" and message board posters as illegitimate because we are not trained as journalists (I am). This seems to be more of the same.
agree.
Thanks for the link.
Why would you want to publicly invalidate yourself??? :)
I'm a former military journalist. Those two should cancel each other out :-)
I guess we can give you a break then.... :)
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