Inside the Surge

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From The Guardian via C&L: The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: July 20, 2007 at 2:22 am
Author: canofwhoopass4u

Length: 00:09:54
Rating: 4.19
Views: 6023

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Video Comments:
321LookHere (September 6, 2008 at 6:01 pm)
Of course the surge is working. If you put that many troops in my neighborhood, even jay walking would stop. You should have seen the surges they did in Denver and St Paul - those worked, you can't "Recreate '68" with that many troops in town. The question is whether we can get out not how long can we stay. Our kids need schools, healthcare and environmental responsibility not war.
fanofrhymeswithstar (September 6, 2008 at 3:50 pm)
The idea that the surge is working is an illusion. Actually the enemy is playing smart. They know they cannot beat the United States in the way they had been conducting themselves. So now they're mostly laying low, stocking up, recruiting and reforming. And when the dems come into power and the troops pull out then they will strike.
WashMitt (July 29, 2008 at 1:20 am)
If it was wrong to go in its wrong to win unless you're morally retarded.
phorse (September 5, 2008 at 4:12 pm)
It wasn't wrong to go in.
WashMitt (September 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm)
Hitler would agree
commandro (April 6, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
to me there is a line between a soldier and a murderer

these incidents happen because insurgents are more then often hide under civilians
profanum88 (April 6, 2008 at 11:46 pm)
You dont think other murderers have excuses?
commandro (April 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm)
yes but most are not justifyable
porkbroth (March 12, 2008 at 2:16 am)
Seriously, do you have some form of syndrome? "Live ammo explodes inside the vehicle" that really really doesn't happen, you can shoot ammunition and it will not go off unless you hit it orthogonally to the end of the round. Idiots
Kerventer (July 25, 2008 at 3:41 pm)
The bomb set off the ammo. Different factors play into such a thing as that. I was in the infantry for some time. They put all their ammo under a plate in the Bradley. Right where the soldiers sit... It's a fucking death trap.