"Bad Voodoo" on PBS here last night....

[Bigmack]

mentioned in two other DU threads around the first of April....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5349822 and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3091443

Played on Seattle PBS last night, and apparently in other markets as well. This is a must see.

Bad Voodoo is the nickname the men chose for their platoon in Iraq. Their job during this deployment is to escort supply convoys, and seemingly, to absorb IEDs

We (as in you and me) keep sending people back into that shit 5 or 6 times, after they've been diagnosed with PTSD, after they've been wounded, after they should have been mustered out and counseled out of their depression and self-hatred.

This country has no soul.

Check it out at the PBS

FRONTLINE goes to war in Iraq with a band of California-based National Guard soldiers who call themselves the "Bad Voodoo Platoon" to tell their very personal story in Bad Voodoo's War, airing Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET (check local listings). To record their war, from private reflections to real-time footage of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on the ground, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) creates a "virtual embed," supplying cameras to the soldiers of the Bad Voodoo Platoon and working with them to shape an intimate portrait that reveals the hard grind of their war. Says Scranton: "What compels me is telling a story from the inside out, to crawl inside their world with them to see what it looks like, feels like and smells like. It's really important to give soldiers the chance to press their own record button on this war."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/

[Breeze54]

1. It was definitley a 'must see'!

Really good program and X-slice about how this war is taking a toll on the enlisted and also some
good insight on some of their reasons for going voluntarily, for those that weren't stop-lossed.
I think the scariest part was them driving down that long desert road... really creepy... :scared:

[elocs]

2. An excellent program. I recorded the first installment

since it is supposed to be a continuing story.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. You can watch the whole show here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/badvoodoo/

[Forkboy]

4. It was an excellent but sobering show to watch.

I hope more people take the time to watch it.