Hendo Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=198443 Available for another month, but I would advise watching it as soon as you can. I'd say it was shocking and unbelievable but that would be a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I've watched most of it. It's pretty depressing. There's a companion piece by John Pilger on Guardian.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 yeah I 'enjoyed' this. The guy had an agenda, like where he refers to the Israeli press officer as a properganda-ist, but he was right in principle. It's infuriating that they get away with it. it also seemed massively odd that this was on itv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Nope. John Pilger has always worked with ITV over the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGunKnacker Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 great film. i choked up big time when the soldier who was obviously a good bloke told his story of finding those kids and trying to get them help. pity theres no space for human feelings or humanity at all in the war machine. particularly the US war machine it seems, judging by the shoot first ask questions later approach they take which so often results in friendly fire and civilian deaths. i mean 90% of the iraq death toll were civilian deaths? :o i also remember reading an article about the horrendously shady friendly fire killing of american pro-football hero Pat Tillman, which had a 'factoid' in it that something like 40% of US servicemen die of friendly fire.. did it chage anyones views on the hurt locker? i havent seen it but when i get round to it im sure ill watch it through different eyes now and how annoying were those news bigwigs??? contrasted against the (perhaps belated) refreshing honesty and dignified admissions by the journalists that misreported war, their slimy evasiveness and semantics turned my stomach even more than they wouldve done normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted December 18, 2010 Author Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yeah the U.S. soldier telling that story with the footage backing up what happened was heart-breaking. And the cold bastards just replied, "Shouldn't bring kids to a war". Most of the journalists seemed to accept they didn't do their job, bar the head of ITV news who just seemed to be on the defensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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