Okay, we all heard last week about the soldier who confronted Rumsfeld about having to pick through garbage for materials. Today, Salon magazine posted a clip from a documentary, Gunner Palace, that showed this has been a problem for a long, long time in Iraq. Our soldiers are driving around in vehicles they call "thin-skinned" because they have no armor protection. Of course, Rummy and Bush act "thin-skinned" when they are asked about this mess.
Salon (which requires registration) has a link to the startling piece of film -- they have the trailer for "Gunner Palace." I agree with Salon...watch this clip:
Watch this brief clip from the forthcoming documentary "Gunner Palace," which follows the lives of the 2/3 Field Artillery, aka the "Gunners," as they experience the occupation of Baghdad, Iraq.Documentaries like Gunner Palace (and Control Room from earlier this year) seem to be the only way we get the true story of what is happening to American kids in Iraq. Too bad we don't have an independent media in this country to tell the story.
The clip shows these soldiers' take on the issue that grabbed headlines just last week when an Army reservist asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld when they'd be able to get the armor they needed for their Humvees instead of having to dig through scrap heaps to improvise some protection. Back in March, 2004, when the featured interview was completed, this was already a problem that troops lived with daily.
