Iraq War Veteran Speaks Out

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Marine Corporal Grant Collins describes what it was like to participate in the war in Iraq. He also describes what it is like to live with giving orders that resulted in the deaths of civilians.

I posted this video from truthout.org for two reasons: 1) because it simply should be seen by as many people as possible, 2) every other copy that I found on YouTube had been posted by people with a very different and very negative political/social agenda from what the video represents. I think it is better served posted cleanly and in the original context it was intended to be seen.

Video Title: "It's My Duty to Speak Out"
A Film by Scott Galindez

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 27, 2007 at 9:52 am
Author: bluechao

Length: 00:07:57
Rating: 4.59
Views: 76290

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Video Comments:
chliq (October 11, 2008 at 5:28 am)
the war was a mistake. waste of money. NO weapons of mass destruction found. the marines killed more civilians than saddam did with his own hands.
vengencefrom1979 (October 11, 2008 at 5:09 am)
Brain Washing 101

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
--- Hermann Goering, Hitlers Reich Marshall, at the Nuremberg
Trials after World War II.
slickskillet123 (October 11, 2008 at 12:21 am)
you are trying to pull a rabbit
out of the hat but the rabbit is
gone.
slickskillet123 (October 10, 2008 at 7:46 pm)
somebody must not be getting any
vengencefrom1979 (October 10, 2008 at 8:48 am)
Brain Washing 101

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
--- Hermann Goering, Hitlers Reich Marshall, at the Nuremberg
Trials after World War II.
slickskillet123 (October 10, 2008 at 7:26 am)
not one life have you saved.
QuietGalTalking (October 10, 2008 at 3:46 am)
Findings Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained
12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation
period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·37·1), compared with 13·3 per
1000 people per year (10·916·1) in the 40 months post-invasion.
slickskillet123 (October 10, 2008 at 3:44 am)
it figures you are uptight about sex too.
QuietGalTalking (October 10, 2008 at 3:38 am)
uh oh, skillet must be running out of things to say, so it's time to pull out the sexual comments.
slickskillet123 (October 10, 2008 at 3:37 am)
sad ?? i have a wife and two kids.
that i love. you just have an worn
out vibrator.