GIs shoot Iraq battle footage and edit it into music videos filled with...

[donsu]

death and destruction. And they display their work as entertainment


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-videos14mar14,0,629306,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines


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When Pfc. Chase McCollough went home on leave in November, he brought a movie made by fellow soldiers in Iraq. On his first night back at his parents' house in Texas, he showed the video to his fiancee, family and friends.

This is what they saw: a handful of American soldiers filmed through the green haze of night-vision goggles. Radio communication between two soldiers crackles in the background before it's drowned out by a heavy-metal soundtrack.

"Don't need your forgiveness," the song by the band Dope begins as images unfurl: armed soldiers posing in front of Bradley fighting vehicles, two women covered in black abayas walking along a dusty road, a blue-domed mosque, a poster of radical cleric Muqtada Sadr. Then, to the fast, hard beat of the music — "Die, don't need your resistance. Die, don't need your prayers" — charred, decapitated and bloody corpses fill the screen.

"It's like a trophy, something to keep," McCullough, 20, said back at his cramped living quarters at Camp Warhorse near Baqubah. "I was there. I did this."

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[Snivi Yllom]

1. if you really want to see 'military porn' go here

http://grouchymedia.com/index.cfm

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Ah yes, this is a trophy indeed

been done since we lifted a stone to kill another human being

So scalps have been replaced by movies... actually this is not as unhealthy as it seems

Worry about the troop that comes home, cannot and will not talk about it, and will keep it bottled in... that is the guy who you have to worry abuot, truly. Not the troop that ahem, collected trophies and is using music to try to make sense of the hell we sent him to.

[smoogatz]

3. This is actually a good thing, in a way.

Better than suppressing it, or pretending it didn't happen. Good for the families and fiancees to see it, too--maybe it'll help them understand what's going on with their returned vets.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. I think this really sums it up

<"It gets the point across," he said. "This isn't some jolly freakin' peacekeeping mission." >

Maybe they're trying to show that it isn't like what Bush company and their shrills say? At least they're showing things from their POV and not just all rosey. Only thing I didn't like is how it's like a trophey and they seem proud to kill Iraqi's. :scared: That part is disturbing.

[smoogatz]

5. Yes, but--

That's what they were sent to Iraq to do. Kill Iraqis. The job of any military is to kill people and break things. We have an excellent military. They're encouraged to take pride in their work. It's perverse, but there you are. It's all part of the package.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The Germans took films of their "heroic" actions too.

But, of course, our troops are the "good" guys.

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