It's a given that the American public gets next to no information about the war. Our media corporations aren't interested in covering it - bad for business, you know - and the politicians on both sides of the aisle who refuse to do anything to stop the war would rather it just slide into oblivion.
That sucks for the men and women still fighting. And it sucks for their families.
Reporters from other countries are still doing good work, however. Blow the fold is a link to a front page Guardian video that you should watch, and share with your friends and neighbors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Endgame in Iraq is a video clip taken by a Guardian reporter Sean Smith who spent 2 months with the US 101st Airborne in Baghdad.
I can't neatly summarize it - you just have to watch it. But the thing to remember is that these are elite US troops. These are among the best, most dedicated soldiers we have. They are true professionals, good at their jobs, and trusting of their chain of command. Watch the video and listen to what they have to say about the war, and what it costs, and why we're still in Iraq.
A friend of mine is working at a US Army hospital on the east coast. We both trained at a busy American trauma hospital. We're used to seeing mangled limbs, mangled people.
But my friend said that after spending some weeks at the US Army hospital, seeing one young American after another, with multiple limbs lost, there's simply no way you can continue to justify the war. At some point you say, this is too much.
You can't justify it. It's simply NOT WORTH the loss of life and the number of maimed, destroyed young Americans.
The ONLY way the US government (and the businesses being enriched by the war) can keep it up is by keeping the US public in the dark.
It's way past time that ordinary Americans started becoming aware of what the war costs. Not in abstract dollars, but in real human costs.
This Guardian video cuts thru a lot of the bullshit we're fed about the war. It's shameful that no US journalist is doing reporting like this - but we need to take the truth where we find it.