Soldier from WikiLeaks Video: 'Iraq Troops Just Going to Be Sent to Afghanistan'

[gogoandywolf]

Ethan McCord is a pariah. He just wanted fame, so he went to the dark side. He left early. When we got back to the US, he was fat as shit.

[shadowofears]

Frederick Barton, senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told the paper: "We pretend it [oil] is not a centerpiece of our motivation, yet we keep confirming that it is."

Last year Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said: "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

[mozaks80]

He seems like a good man, but the wars will keep on going, Israel has too much land to grab, the war machine has too much money to churn up and there are too many powerful people who want perpetual war into the future. The only thing that can possibly happen is that people wise up and stop enlisting and going off to kill people in their own neighborhoods.

[xyayxx]

empty seats at the end of the clip, how sad is that ?? he cant even fill a small room with people, just goes to show how brainwashed a lot of people are.

[101simar]

There is no TERROROST... its only innocent iraqis dying... the real terrorost are the Elites in America... Do some research people.. start by watching the interview of Aaron Russo.

[MrFMTP]

USA CIA ,Pentagon and usa lobby sionist are MURDERS ...this is Unbelivable...For them the Cowboy is the good and others like Indians,should be the Bad...

they could attack and destroy a country Like Iraq just because their economy interest and isreal geopoltic interst tell them to do...in the detriment of thousand ans even millions of ciivilians death ...incerdible

[Carly8Corday]

The Cheney-Bush-Obama wars. Please do not kid yourselves that either political party is anything but criminal and evil. It's right there in your face to see. Right now. LOOK. Until the "Obama's getting things done" song ends, it just goes on. Everybody who sings that song is dipping their hands in blood. Everybody who sees "palin" and "glen dreck " as the enemy, but Obama as the solution, is being just who they want you to be. Those are the clowns sent in to take your attention off the wars.

[Carly8Corday]

The Cheney-Bush-Obama wars. Please do not kid yourselves that either political party is anything but criminal and evil. It's right there in your face to see. Right now. LOOK. Until the "Obama's getting things done" song ends, it just goes on. Everybody who sings that song is dipping their hands in blood. Everybody who sees "palin" and "glen dreck " as the enemy, but Obama as the solution, is being just who they want you to be. Those are the clowns sent in to take your attention off the wars.

[letnamsiew]

GOP FAKE IRAQ OIL WAR CARRIES A HIGH PRICE TAG !!!

[SgtAndrewM]

and americans wonder why the locals now hate them, i have seen a video were an american soldier throws a grenade into a sheaperds sheep for no reason other than fun. gives nato forces a bad name

[sagemakaiserxl]

No different than Vietnam. War will always exist when merchants of death are around.

[AccordGTR]

Killing innocent civilians is nothing new for American soldiers. In 1898 when US invaded Philippines and Filipino's resisted, US soldiers slaughtered 200,000 villagers aside from 20,000 combatants. They also tortured, using water torture, still used by US in Iraq, Afhan and Gitmo today. That was 110 years ago! No wonder there are people who want to sacrifice themselves as human bombs to kill Americans whenever and wherever they are.

Ignore justice and human rights and you get terrorism.

[paintyourwall]

They have taken control of the rich & the powerful. Wake up. Watch the film THEY LIVE for the truth.

Gulf of Tonkin was a lie, 9/11 was a lie. Al Qaeda is made up & Osama is dead. Iraq was a lie. Man-made climate change was a lie. But they're using that lie to spray us with chemtrails (they're finally making it official with a bill). Bird flu was a lie. Swine flue was a lie. Aids was a lie.

Much of the ruling govt of Poland was killed because they took a stand against the swine flu vaccine!

[peoplz360]

9/11 inside job dont be sheeple

[thomas242007]

war isnt nice thats why they call it war

[invincibleironman3]

@thomas242007 ....and thats why Wikileaks is exposing it. Had this never come out would this soldier have had "a change in conscience?"

[thomas242007]

@invincibleironman3 probally not but ive seen footage from vietnam where they did alot worst stuff to people, this is a fairly common thing to happen in a war sad but shit happens

[AccordGTR]

@thomas242007 Wars can always be prevented with fair trade practices, reasonable domestic policy and long-term foreign policy based on self-sufficiency, environmental protection and human rights, something the US has chose to ignore the past 100+ years. "American Way of Life" has only served to make the US the most wasteful, polluting, consumer-addict the world has never seen. That's why you have all these wars since 1898. US govt/military is only serving its people's needs.

[thomas242007]

@AccordGTR well fair trade is all good and everything but i dont think it really helps all that much in preventing wars, somtimes wars are just unavoidable, and china is actually the biggest pollutor if you wanna go there

[AccordGTR]

@thomas242007 Maybe you are reading too much propaganda. Look at the history, not the rhetoric. Eg. Before Japan invaded China in 1936, US, & Euro powers controlled trade and territory in the Far East. But for you, you believe you were fighting Japanese Imperialism and heaven forbid, the US and other Euro powers did not subjugate its Asian trading partners, right? I bet you forgot there were no democracies in Asia and we were all under western occupation, years before Pearl Harbor was attacked.

[MrFMTP]

@thomas242007

Wat isnt Nice ?, hehe ,and how about Millions of iraqi who died after USA attack..Could say that is a millions of whites amerains have been treeted and died like that;;;May be in your subconsionce Iraqi are like Bad indians who fighting against Good hearted white CowBoy

[thomas242007]

@MrFMTP well the way i look at it is if your going to fight a war fight a war kill do all the stuff thats supposed to go on in war dont try to fight a nice war becuase your going to lose if you do, in my personal opionion the guidlines for war are pretty much useless if all countries arent going to by those set rules signed by almost every country and if they arent going to play by the rules then why should we, obama is a pussy and isnt going to do what needs to be done in a war

[awake1563]

@thomas242007 well, not nice for those who are injured and die. However, it is very pretty for the coffers of the people who finance and manufacture weapons for it, which is the reason we are still fighting these wars. profit is the name of the game.

[thomas242007]

@awake1563 yeah thats pretty much at the root of all wars money, i wonder who actually profits from nations going to war with each other, that would be interesting to find out

[Simm2Dimm]

@thomas242007 true....but that doesn't mean u have to gun down unarmed civilians....which is what happended in the video they were watching.

[thomas242007]

@Simm2Dimm well when its war, shit happens alot of bad stuff happens during war

[beyondalohas]

@Simm2Dimm :::TOMMY IS A CLOSEST LIBERAL... HE BAITS HIS CHANNEL, PRETENDING HEs A PATRIOT!! ALL HIS REPLIES IN YOUTUBE PROVE IT !!!

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

Look. The US government should put its hands up and admit this one. It isn't so serious. Only a few men were killed.

Compare this with Operation Bagation. 2 armies faced each other, and one moved to the left a few miles. The result was that about 1 million men were killed in a couple of weeks. I find this shocking. I really do. We have to stop the confusing images and concentrate on the real issues. One or two getting killed is acceptable. One or two hundred million getting killed is not.

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Wikileaks scandal or the Afghan/Iraq war may be small to you compared to the Russian-German War but if you look at it from a system of spreading false info and propaganda (include Banana Wars of 1920's, Middle East, Iran 50-70's, Iraq 70's, Vietnam, Afghan-Soviet war) and include the damage caused by wars started by this system of getting young Americans to take up arms and fight in foreign lands, you will see that it is just as bad or worse than the battles of WW2.

[planetmax83]

war makes animals out of men

[TankerUSA]

@planetmax83

Men are animals, stupid animals to be more precise.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@TankerUSA Face it. We are in a situation of relative peace. Let us thank our lucky stars. Wikileaks is doing a great job keeping people honest. The fact is that the USA has been the most peaceful country ever. Compare this with the carnage that Germany and the USSR meted out to each other in WW2. Compare this also with the horrors in the CSA war as depicted in the epic drama "Gone With the Wind".

[TankerUSA]

Are you on drugs?

We, America, have been in a perpetual state of war since WWII.

As compared to Germany, I'd say we have done far more damage, and killed more people either by direct war, or by proxy.

You say Nazi holocaust, I'll say Native American genocide, which is the grand daddy of all Genocide, the longest running, most destructive genocide in human history.

Son, you need to learn some history, and I'm not talking about the propaganda version of history.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@TankerUSA You talk complete rubbish A typical precious little child that has never seen to proper war. Hello. The Native American genocide did not happen since WW2. You may think I am on drugs. Well, I think you are totally spoilt and ignorant.

[TankerUSA]

@SugarTomAppleRoger

I spend 18 months in Iraq, I know more about war than you ever will.

Oh btw, the Nazi Holocaust hasn't happened since WWII as well, so what is your irrelevant point?

[timpovikings]

@TankerUSA

18 months in Iraq.

Is that where you saw the 13, 000 autopsies which you say disprove the holocaust?

Come on, mate - where are the 13, 000 autopsy reports, where did you see them and can we assume that if you were lying out of your anus on those, you're very probably lying about everything else?

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@TankerUSA No. You don't know about real war. Neither of us do. You are not in a war situation there, more of a protectorate, like the Phillipines were prior to 1941. My relevant point is that there hasn't been a major war since1945.

[timpovikings]

@TankerUSA

"Son, you need to learn some history," LMFAO!

So why not start with the 13, 000 autopsies which so influenced your opinion.

Where did you see them?

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Relative peace?? Lucky stars?? American soldiers wiped out hundreds of thousand of civilians since 9/11 and for sure new terrorists are planning retribution. War has spilled out of Afghanistan to Kyrgyzstan with hundreds KIA and 400,000 refugees. A "Perfect Storm" is brewing in Central Asia that may wipe out NATO and US investments in Afghanistan. US economy is still in recession with govt debt-to-GDP the highest in the world 90% and unemployment 10%.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR Yes. Lucky stars. Read about Operation Bagration or Prokhorovka. Now that is war!

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Ah so you want real war, huh? Don't worry. You will get it soon.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR OK. I respect your view, coming from the Phillipines. I met my father's cousin and he talked about it. He was stationed there, and the Phillipine people did predict that war would come. Where do you think the war will start, and by whom?

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Really, who were those people? To be honest I get my sources from Western history books and media. I know some US vets, retired SEAL, USMC General, and Special Forces. My Grandfather was one of the first "pensionado" who was sent to Indiana Univ then Yale, later Congressman then Senator of the Phil. Commonwealth govt under US colonial rule before and during WW2.

I am no intelligence analyst but US has many threats externally, as well as internally due to the recession.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR My dad's cousin was a junior officer in the Philippines. He would probably have known your grandfather.

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger His name is Antonio de las Alas. I'm very proud of him. His life is the story of the Philippines after the Spanish rule. It is a very interesting story that shows our relationship with the US. I wish many Americans and Filipinos will study our history because it will give us more insight and knowledge to make a more educated opinion of what is going on today in the world. Many have forgotten the history and the same mistakes are being made because of this lapse in memory

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR It is true. Americans and Filipinos should study their common history. No country is closer to the US than the Phillipines. Filipino people are thought of in New Zealand as being nice, trustworthy and most of all loyal. I can't say that many New Zealanders now have these qualities - they used to once. Is it true that the Phillipines were invited to become a State of the US and turned it down? I just think we should stick with out friends through good and bad. The US is our friend.

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger "Is it true that the Phillipines were invited to become a State of the US and turned it down?" - Never! In 1898, the US newspapers/military saw Filipino's as "inferior race" and called them niggers. Filipino's, on the other hand, never wanted to be under another foreign power after Spain and thousands died fighting. My Lolo graduated Cum Laude Yale 1909. Although he was on a US govt scholarship his valedictory address was about Phil. Independence. LOL

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR Yes. It was bad then. Look. I saw racism first hand in Vietnam. The black Americans and white Americans would not even talk to each other. Both groups got on fine with us white New Zealanders. These times are behind us now, thank goodness. People aren't fundamentally bad. They can be educated and understand each other. A lot of the racist attitudes of the past were just plain childish from the way I see it. It was like some spoilt kid saying "I'm better than you".

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Are you talkin about Vietnam War? You served there? Sorry I dunno your background, what year was that? I heard racism among US soldiers only happened later in the war, not in the early years, say before the Tet Offensive. And yes, I agree with you, if people are well educated and actually meet to talk with each other, this world will be a better place. But first we have to fight this ignorance that is so pervasive among young people today cuz of mass media.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@AccordGTR I can only base it on my experience. I was there in 1972, and trained also with American troops that came to New Zealand in 1975. I did not notice much difference. It suprised me that there were quite a few Japanese troops with the American army. The black guys all looked a good 9 inches higher than the white ones also. Still, those days are gone. I'm sure there isn't the same bad feeling now. As they say, we should move onward and upward.

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Ah yes by 1972 many G.I.'s were strung out on drugs. That was the height of US protests too. Fyi I just visited HCM City couple of weeks ago. You should visit, it was so interesting but of course, their portrayal of the war is one-sided. Still, lots of foreign tourists and great food. Yup, US military full of minorities including Filipinos. I bet soon they will have many Iraqi and Afghans too. That's certainly one way of moving on!

[AccordGTR]

@SugarTomAppleRoger "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

America was built on the Constitution of 1776 and that is what people all over the world believe in. But today that same document is being threatened from within. Eg. Arizona Law, anti-Islamic racism, foreign imperialism including military bases abroad, corporate greed, lack of transparency and accountability in govt.

[forloveoffilm]

@Solareffects Damn! You're correct. Had the August date on the brain, as the project we were scheduling for that date next year. Thank you for calling that to my attention.

[IraMcGurkin]

Were the guys with RPG's and AK-47's civilian, too?

[dadreamzworld]

AWOL!

[jjaye1]

Thank you "Friends of Wikileaks"

[DrMu5tCh3at2W1n]

Go Army...

[earlygates]

This kinda stuff should be shown on the nightly news like they did during Vietnam.

[Ryan2142]

"It was pretty shocking to actually see it on the news" Just shows you how the media doesn't do it's damn job anymore. If people knew how fucked up things were in this war we'd have left long ago.

[oldben101]

@Ryan2142 If the media was doing it's job, the war wouldn't have started in the fist place.

[Ryan2142]

@oldben101 Probably true. There are no real reporters anymore, just anchors.

[soccerdude601]

@Ryan2142 you mean actors, not anchors. they just read scripts.

[deftonesfairy]

Wooooooooo Hoooooooo!!!! YES!!! I'm so happy he's standing up. And you know, those soldiers that go out there are some of the number one people that feel the heat from our corrupted governmental ways. I only hope that more stand up and speak out!! Yes!!!! One more step to justice!! <3333 I'm so glad his story got on live air. <3!!!

[marniespeaks]

I'll never vote for another democrat again

[kazizmo]

@marniespeaks Vote on the republicans and get lied to. The system doesn't work. Doesn't mater what label they are.....

[marniespeaks]

@kazizmo

why would I vote republican?

[th3dig1tal0n3]

The video is viral an is on the youtube for a long time, with complete talk between helicopter and their superior in the base. Horrible thing about it is that one of the soldiers warned about the children before they started to shoot on van. His warning was ignored.

The father of the children used his body to shield them. Children survived. I don't think they are going do live the rest of their lives in love for US. Next time someone says "They hate our way of life" just remember the clip.

[forloveoffilm]

Afganaistan will be the death-knell of America, as it was for everyone who has ever battled there. I do not think the US will accept the loss. Once the loss becomes inevitable, The H-bomb or N-bomb will be dropped, thus ending the human race. Predicted by this post 1 August 2010

[OnenessNow]

Americans are questioning the validity of war as a solution to solving differences.

One trillion dollars to the war profiteers and one million innocents slaughtered is enough of a lesson. Peace, Love and Light are the solutions for all of the generations to come.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Team Amerika World Police! FUCK YEAH!

[chingon711]

bush and sadmn are no different....both are murderers.

[Arkinight]

@chingon711 Only one faced a semblance of justice.

[pigfister]

@chingon711

add obama, blair, brown, cheney, rumsfeld, hoon, miliband, straw and many others to that list, as its still business as usual for our stooge governments.

[MrFMTP]

@chingon711

it s not about Bush or saddam or even Obama the probleme is very depth ..it about CIA ,Pentagon and Sionnist Lobby interest in USa and thier relations with arm and Oil industry ..about the hegemony of israel in the middle east..

so it s not a probleme with a person but with the whole contitution and USA Doctrin in the world. Person come and go but the Crime Doctrin of Usa is remaining ...Normal is you are watching FOXNEX 24 houres /24 .. I guess you will not understund me...

[Mutawwwafialmanya]

@MrFMTP saddam was better ,and mullah omar is much better he trust in Allah and not in America