"Shot from November 2004 to April 2005 inside the city of Falluja, 'Caught in the Crossfire' details the conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the violent clashes and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community. A joint production between American and Iraqi filmmakers, 'Caught in the Crossfire' was filmed entirely un-embedded, outside the protection or influence of the military or corporate media, in order to capture the unique and honest perspective of the civilians themselves. "
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Rather than leave this entry as a comment on Hunter's diary, I'm using my one-diary-entry per day to bring 'Caught in the Crossfire' to the attention of the dKos community with the suggestion that you purchase this video and hold some "educational viewing" evenings with friends and family.
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There is rightly extended conversation here about recent revelations (to those of us not paying desperate attention to Fallujah last November) on the use of white phosphorus and the new napalm, Mark-77, in that city. Commentators at Hunter's diary are talking about making stickers of the burned babies for public display. Knowing something of the compassion fatigue that depresses the American citizenry, I don't think public display of the images from Fallujah are going to do much.
But, since the proceeds from 'Caught in the Crossfire' go to actually help the people of Fallujah, a city once the size of Cinncinati and still suffering from its utter destruction, and since the methods used in Fallujah are currently being used in the small town of Husaybah during today's "Operation Steel Curtain", private viewings may help, like a stone in a pond, to spread American awareness of what is being done in our name.
While I am as horrified as everyone else at what happened in Fallujah (I wrote a diary in November titled "My Generation's Guernica"), I am somewhat disturbed by people who say "I never thought my government would do something like this." Did anyone not know prior to this illegal invasion that the U.S. spends more on its military than ROW (rest of the world combined)? Note: Jane's Defense Weekly projected we would reach this summit by March 2005. Just google U.S. military AND rest of world to see those ever-startling figures.
Or, that we would use every weapon at our disposal to crush our opponents? And, get us some 'collateral damage' while we were at it? Ten million people around the world knew these facts on February 15, 2003, during global demonstrations against the invasion listed by the Guiness World Book of Records in 2004 as the largest mass protest in history.
Under every international rule for war in the book, we are a rouge nation now. What, as we await the release of the rest of the Abu Ghraib footage are we NOT capable of?