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 Post subject: The Ground Truth
PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:49 pm 
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Watched this documentary last night. Had trouble sleeping afterwards. While awake I began breaking down why it made me feel uneasy, anxious, and upset. The thought of either living in a country under occupation or being required to occupy a country is disturbingly haunting. This video is only service men and woman mostly from Iraq speaking about what they went through. Some of the things these guys talk about just make my heart drop. An everyday fear for your life as soon as you step off the plane in Iraq. How readjustment from a soldier to a civilian can be tougher then pulling any trigger. I often feel so helpless in terms of the creation and escalation of this war. With no end in sight. At times it's difficult to feel you can make a change. But spreading the word about little gems like this that bring out such raw and intense feelings about this war helps.

The Ground Truth: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ruth&hl=en

If you watch please comment.

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Thanks for the link, I've been wanting to see this. We watched a similar film in a doc class last semester made during WWII, and it was censored by the US government for 35 years, because they funded it and didn't like what they saw.

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Tried to watch this, and the sound and image weren't in sync :x

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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.


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