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Ground Truth: The Human Cost Of War

DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
Man, I just started downloading this, and skipped around a bit.

You want to get a little sick just from HEARING what's going on?

Go to 26 minutes 40 seconds ...

just listen to this marine talk for 2 minutes.

Oh yey.

Hey, we are "WINNING", right?

Fucking christ.
Raise your hand if you think we are breeding terrorists by the actions we commit.

Ground Truth: The Human Cost Of War
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    .....And they say the number of Iraqi dead is around 70,000 Yeah Right! How can that be when on missions we take out all that we see, anything that moves. it's amazing how in this occupation we implement into the equation eliminating death. It's impossible when innocent people are dying.

    Just imagine if this country was in that same predicament, the whole fucking thing makes me sick.

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Just take a look at the 36:50 mark and see what I'm taking about.

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    They're lines in this song that tells the the story of the predictment our soldiers face today. Checkout the video here @ CASUALTIES OF WAR.

    Artist: Eric B. & Rakim
    Album: Don't Sweat the Technique
    Song: Casualties of War

    Casualties of War!

    Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade
    Where's the enemy? Who do I invade?
    Bullets of Teflon, bulletproof vest rip
    Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
    Cause I got a family that waits for my return
    To get back home is my main concern
    I'ma get back to New York in one piece
    but I'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
    Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
    Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...

    President Bush said attack
    Flashback to Nam, I might not make it back
    Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
    from a war of dreams, heat up the M-16
    Basic training, trained for torture
    Take no prisoners, and I just caught ya
    Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
    They can't identify em, leave the nametags
    I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
    CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)

    Day divides the night and night divides the day
    It's all hard work and no play
    More than combat, it's far beyond that
    Cause I got a kill or be killed kind of attack
    Area's mapped out, there'll be no, Stratego
    Me and my platoon make a boom wherever we go
    But what are we here for? Who's on the other side of the wall?
    Somebody give the President a call

    But I hear warfare scream through the air
    Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare
    A Desert Storm: let's see who reigns supreme
    Something like Monopoly: a government scheme
    Go to the Army, be all you can be
    Another dead soldier? Hell no, not me

    So I start letting off ammunition in every direction
    Allah is my only protection
    But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same
    and this is Asia, from where I came
    I'm on the wrong side, so change the target
    Shooting at the general; and where's the sergeant?
    Blame it on John Hardy Hawkins for bringing me to America
    Now it's mass hysteria
    I get a rush when I see blood, dead bodies on the floor
    CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)

    The war is over, for now at least
    Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace
    It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about
    Whole generation, left in doubt
    Innocent families killed in the midst
    It'll be more dead people after this
    So I'm glad to be alive and walkin
    Half of my platoon came home in coffins

    Except the general, buried in the Storm
    in bits and pieces no need to look for em
    I played it slick and got away with it
    Rigged it up so they would think they did it
    Now I'm home on reserves and you can bet
    when THEY call, I'm going AWOL
    Cause it ain't no way I'm going back to war
    when I don't know who or what I'm fighting for

    So I wait for terrorists to attack
    Every time a truck backfires I fire back
    I look for shelter when a plane is over me
    Remember Pearl Harbor? New York could be over, G
    Kamikaze, strapped with bombs
    No peace in the East, they want revenge for Saddam

    Did I hear gunshots, or thunder?
    No time to wonder, somebody's going under
    Put on my fatigues and my camoflouge
    Take control, cause I'm in charge
    When I snapped out of it, it was blood, dead bodies on the floor
    CASUALTIES OF WAR! (4X)

    Even though this was written in 1992, it's almost as IF he's forecasting the 9/11 event in 2001. What do you'll think :?:

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    If I had some crank yelling in my face like that, I'd pop his lights out, if that meant I got a beat down then so be it... I'd pick myself up and tell them to stuff it up their ___. Screw that idiocy.

    Man...some people must be demented in the head large to do this.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Singing songs about killing women and children in the school yards over and over while you train.

    That's some sick twisted shit right there.

    Is this for real or what?
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    I have to be honest here, back in college I was a few months from becoming a commissioned officer a 1st Leutenant stationed in the Signal Corp. I found a way to get out of it and I did. I had the yelling and screaming in my ears and the marching and all of that.

    I must tell you after those many training schools I was indoctrined and mentally ready for a battle/war anywhere in the world. At that time nothing else mattered to me to other than killing.

    Now when I look back it amazes me how easy it was to be trained to kill. I had a sniper's deadly aim, breakdown an M60 with my eyes closed and it hits me just like how these soldiers explain about killing.

    It becomes as easy as stepping on a roach. I'm fortunate I didn't contnue in the military and I'm even more fortunate I detest anything that deals with war this administration's militaristic ideals. To the administration: Metallica would say "Kill Em All" I say "Fuck Em All" today hasn't been a good day at all.

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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