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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Vermont YouTube of the Day
Here's an unvarnished look at Vermont National Guard soldiers deployed overseas. The video is mostly just a montage of still photos — troops training pre-deployment, plumes of black smoke rising into the desert sky — but it includes some scrolling text at the beginning:
"After the terroritst [sic] attacks on Sept. 11, President Bush thought long and hard about the retalliation [sic] strategy of the United States military. There was only one unit strong and fit enough to go over and kick those pieces of shit right in their taliban asses!... A. co. 2-172 Armor"
The video is pretty tame, though it ends with the words "Fuck You" appearing over photos of Saddam and Osama Bin Laden.
November 21, 2006 at 02:10 PM in Vermont YouTube | Permalink
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I thought you might be interested to know that it appears that Gay Marriage is now legal in Israel.
That would make them the first (and likely only) country in the Middle East to sanction Gay Marriages.
Posted by: CoolBlue | Nov 21, 2006 2:20:40 PM
In these days of newspeak, I can't help but to remind the people killing others overseas that the Taliban did not attack the US.
In fact, the Taliban offered to turn Bin Laden over to be tried in an international court if the US would show evidence that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.
The US gov't scuttled the deal and launched its war on Afghanistan. That shouldn't be surprising, since Pakistani media reported in the summer of 2001 that the US would be fighting in Afghanistan later that fall.
And the evidence against Bin Laden? Despite Condi Rice's promise shortly after 9/11 to show the world evidence against Bin Laden, we're still waiting. And Bin Laden is not even on the FBI's most wanted list because the FBI says they have no evidence to put him on their list.
In short, our judgements are based only on what a gov't that has been proven to have lied repeatedly has said, and then those statements are echoed by the corporate mass media to form the public's opinions.
The members of the VT Nat's Guard shouldn't be so gleeful about fighting wars. They're not fighting for justice or the American people, like their brother veterans of the Viet Nam era, they're "just" fighting for another corrupt government.
Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 24, 2006 8:04:44 PM
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