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I just finished part one of Frontline’s two-part documentary series, Bush’s War, about the administrations lead-up to the Iraq war and how it has been fought since. Frankly, I can not wait to get to part two. If you’ve already seen the second half, please don’t spoil it in the comments for everyone else. Suffice to say, I’m betting that all of those guys get sent to prison, or are, at the very least, impeached. There is just no way that they skate on this. Talk about your cliffhangers!

First of all, I feel I’m not going to be able to write nearly as much in this post as I should given the amount of notes that I’ve been jotting down over the past three days. I suppose that’s the problem with not posting everyday. Ideas build up and then the getting them out begins to seem overly daunting for something that’s suppose to be fun.

But anyway.

Tonight, MTV will be airing a documentary called Iraq Uploaded at 8:00pm EDT. The subject of the doc is about the videos that have been uploaded to sites like YouTube by soldiers who were or are currently in Iraq. More so, its a doc about unfiltered news video (I haven’t seen it yet, but this article does a good job of setting things up).

Thanks to the ease of both uploading and watching web-video, it has suddenly become possible for people all over the world (specifically in war zones) to shoot and distribute first-hand accounts of these wars– sometimes (oftentimes) in a way that is exponentially more raw than anything the nightly news would dare broadcast. Keep reading by clicking below…

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