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holy shit, cal! thx!
i didn't even know you tossed this up! shoulda' pinged my page, amigo!

kismet that i should come across it, while trying to make up for the other discard i just promoted. feddy tossed it up a month later... crap, it's in the deadpool anyway.

hmm... and i did have my eye on another nugget of yours, that i just came across...

ok. cal and i were just having a profile-comment conversation about whether or not full feature-length stuff 'belongs' here.
methinks there be some discrepancy between the faq, and the siftage.
not that i personally give a shit, of course!

the flick we had been talking about was The War Tapes, which i had already seen, and was glad it was available to as wide an audince as possible, on Google.
same goes for No End In Sight.

oh! btw, only reason i didn't upvote yours, is because i was under the impression that full copies of anything didn't belong here. forgot to mention that when you posted your comment.

In reply to this comment by calvados:
Hey, changed your tags 'cos my own "The War Tapes" sift didn't autolink to yours. It should now (and I don't think it was filmed in the 'Stan, although I could be wrong).

If I may make a shameless plug: My fellow Sifters! The full film is in the queue right now, go vote it up if you please.

EDIT: K, nobody's upping it, so I'll discard. But here's the link to the full film on Google Video:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3030987572930384032&q=war+tapes&total=394&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Hey, changed your tags 'cos my own "The War Tapes" sift didn't autolink to yours. It should now (and I don't think it was filmed in the 'Stan, although I could be wrong).

If I may make a shameless plug: My fellow Sifters! The full film is in the queue right now, go vote it up if you please.

EDIT: K, nobody's upping it, so I'll discard. But here's the link to the full film on Google Video:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3030987572930384032&q=war+tapes&total=394&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ideas worth spreading, technology, entertainment, design, iraq, afghanistan' to 'ideas worth spreading, technology, entertainment, design, iraq, the war tapes' - edited by calvados

there's a great scene like this in the iraq documentary, The War Tapes. Something the soldiers do during downtime. 'Cept the scorpion and the spider in that one are twice as big! And the result is a lot different.

Here are some examples of videos that demonstrate what our soldiers are going through without the thrilling fun of showing them get killed to pieces or that are more documentary/reporting/informative style and less "hey, watch these guys get blown to shit!" style:
http://www.videosift.com/video/US-Army-fight-with-insurgents-in-Fallujah-from-War-Tapes
http://www.videosift.com/video/Weapons-of-US-soldiers-in-Iraq-plagued-with-problems
http://www.videosift.com/video/IED-blows-up-road-in-middle-of-convoy-no-injuries
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jubilation-as-IED-misses-target-completely
http://www.videosift.com/video/I-get-blown-up-US-troops-and-their-up-armoured-Humvee-get-hit-by-IED-and-everyone-survives-nsfw-language
Etc, etc.

Yes it's a documentary, a very good one. I think it's the only real look at how the troops experience the war. No journalist in the field, the soldiers were given the cameras to document their own tour.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775566/

Here is a nice video on TED from the creator of the documentary.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/171

There is even a torrent
http://isohunt.com/torrents/?iht=-1&ihq=%22the+war+tapes%22

War Tapes is a great film that gives a clearer picture, of what the U.S. invasion into Iraq, is like for the soldiers there.