July 2006
Since the beginning of the war, 2500 highly trained and well equipped American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. As Sydney journalist Paul McGeough tried to contact insurgents, he was given a video CD featuring gruesome sequences of soldiers getting shot, roadside bombings, bodies of so-called martyrs who died for the cause and badly mutilated dead Americans. We also hear the chilling words of a sniper who refers to the ennemy as 'donkeys':'I swear to God', he says, 'I shot twelve bullets at an American camp and only three bullets missed. With the other nine bullets, I killed a donkey.'
Paul McGeough's conclusion after watching the video is short and simple: 'If they can make homemade weapons, if they can move around with the ease that they do, if they show as blatantly as they do that they can get the wherewithal to mascarade as members of the Iraqi security forces, you got a problem as a counter-insurgent.'
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Anytime you look at the Middle East, consider the tribal and theological differences in why they do what they do and why they don't get along. Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites blend together to form Iraq, and while they might be a country, they are not a happy family. They hate each other over territorial disputes in Iraq. That's why Bush Sr didn't go onto Baghdad and remove Saddam in 1991 because he knew it's hard for foreign troops to control the factions that could slip the country into civil war.
Hperman09 6 days ago
@TheCentralServices Good! The less they see us, the better. Next time, we'll make it stronger for Chavez, so he can develop anaphylaxis and adios muchacho!! No more burritios for him!!
HDNighster1 3 weeks ago
@HDNighster1 Unfortunately el presidente Chavez is still suffering from a severe allergic reaction from all the sulphuric smell your satan presidents have left at the UN and Brasil is so busy being successful in BRIC, Europe and ASEAN they couldn't point out the US on a map.
TheCentralServices 3 weeks ago
@TheCentralServices Venezuela and BRAZIL!! It's ours. GO USA!!
HDNighster1 3 weeks ago
@HDNighster1 "RUSSIA monopoly on OIL and GAS supplies" It is time that they turn off the tap for the US. Get your oil in Venezuela!
TheCentralServices 3 weeks ago
I will fucking nuke them all,
nekerrivera 4 weeks ago
@phadil During WW2, Iraq had aligned themselves with National socialist in Germany; hence birth of Baathism spread from Syria. We finally overthrew the NAZIs in Iraq. GO USA!!
HDNighster1 4 months ago
@aviomaster China and Russia got most of oil contract from Iraq. Also, China is getting oil and gas from central Asian nations and from Eastern Turkestan, pass Tarimin basin. Uygurs are being ethically cleansed for this;yet the world does not condemn or criticize.
HDNighster1 4 months ago
@afg96 - IRANIAN GAS and OIL fields connected to RUSSIAN GAS grid the largest GAS grid on the planet will give RUSSIA monopoly on OIL and GAS supplies.
THAT is why USA is in Middle East, CHINA does not have huge natural GAS and OIL fields.
aviomaster 5 months ago