Young director Ava Lowery has created a video to encourage people to attend the antiwar rally this Saturday in Washington, D.C. In her YouTube description she says:
Over 3,046 U.S. Troops have died in Iraq. Thousands more have been wounded and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. We already know how this war must end. Now it’s time for us to stand up and do something! Join us on the streets of DC this Saturday, January 27th, to tell the new Congress: Act NOW to bring the troops home! We the people have the power to control our country’s path. It’s up to use to use that power.
How This Must End
Remember as you watch it that there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqi scenes like the American ones shown here.
This YouTube video shows US soldiers tauting Iraqi children with a bottle of water. It must be wonderful for these pitiful young men, in a country they hate and where everyone hates them, to feel superior by making fools of Iraqi children. Perhaps this is the most benevolent image to come out of the occupation. After all, unlike in so many other incidents, no one was killed:
How can such an occupation possibly help the occupied?
Many readers have come here looking for the British Channel 4 TV special on the Iraqi death squads linked to the government. The original poster of that video moved it yesterday, but his new link did not work. Here is another link to the same piece. [I have also replaced the link in the original post.]:
The new Barbara Kopple movie about the Dixie Chicks, Shut Up and Sing, is apparently out in New York and LA, though the rest of us will have to wait until November 10 to view it. Like the Chicks themselves, the movie is under attack from the forces that be. NBC has refused to air the ad for the movie for dissing the President. [See ad here.] There’s a segment in which Bush says [something like] “they shouldn’t have their feelings hurt because people don’t want to buy their CDs.” Perhaps NBC shouldn’t have their feelings hurt if people want their airwaves back.
GuardianFilms and BBC Newsnight present a short [eight minute] film that clearly conveys the futility of the American occupatio in Iraq. It shows the relations between one American army division and the Iraqi Army (IA) and police who are supposed to replace them. THe IA throw hand grenades at the Americans and the police sit by while the Americans are attacked. It seems to never occur to these pooor American troops that they are hated because they are occupying another people’s country.
Here is the Guardian’s description:
Sean Smith, the Guardian’s award-winning war photographer, spent nearly six weeks with the 101st Division of the US army in Iraq. Watch his haunting observational film that explodes the myth around the claims that the Iraqis are preparing to take control of their own country.