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The three sources are a great look and perspective into the peoples voice of the Iraq war. Something that will always be questioned is how the government could have stayed away from so many bad choices. These articles, presentations and Q&A, and previews are small pieces of how the everyday cartoon watcher was turned into a G.I. Joe on the drop of a dime, in order to help America fight a battle they could have done right. Reason’s for the unnecessary and deadly choices, may never be fully known, but what will be known is thousands of innocent boys died, and they deserve to have died for a reason.

The article that the New York Times posted was a very deep and touching portrayal of young boys, seeking to go and play Call of Duty over in the Middle East. The reference that was used to explain the soldier that was on foot patrol, and disappeared. His leg was found in a tree a while late and needed to be taken down by several men. He had floated down a canal, and never been found. That could unbearable to have to receive your son’s leg, and no other part of his body.

“We will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies and freedom.” This quote that George W. Bush gave to the American people was a joke and a way of getting the media off the back of the Bush administration. The trailer for the documentary of No End in Sight was very moving, and very provoking After watching the full documentary of No End in Sight I could not help but feel very offended, and angry on behalf of the people under the Bush administration’s control. The press conferences that were given during the Bush campaign, seemed to have no real sympathy, or real interest into how bad things had been getting in Iraq. What was the most surprising event of the documentary, had to do with the disbandment of the Iraqi army, and seemed to turn the country over-night into a hellish war-zone. When that seemed to happen, all confidence and motivation for Iraq seemed to fly out the window.



The thing I found so inspiring and absolutely thrilling about the Ted talk by Deborah Scranton was how her documentary, illustrated the trust of the soldiers and the film crew. The Ted talk was a huge insight into the affects that the war has on people, in the army, and how it has changed their lives forever. Soldiers have been unable to connect back with their families, and seem to have lost the life they once had back home. I thought the way that the documentary was filmed was very interesting, and gave lot’s of different views into the war, and how it was being presented back home on the news. The ways that the soldiers found themselves being the biggest help to the Iraqi people. At the end of the Ted talk, the U.S. government had seemed to blow off the reality of the war and it’s problems. As a result innocent young men and women who had lived a quarter of their lives were paying for it.