Casey's in the Sandbox Now

Last week I posted a video made by a guy named Casey J. Porter. He was in Kuwait, waiting to be shipped into Iraq. Casey is an active duty soldier who got Stop-Lossed and sent back to Iraq a couple weeks ago. He's also an active member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and he's taken his video camera with him. His goal--to give folks here (and troops who haven't been shipped to Iraq yet) a sense of what it's like to be part of an occupying army in a distant country in a senseless war.

This one records the mortar attacks that hit the FOB as soon as they got there. Check it out.



And thanks again to Jeri Reed, this time for kicking this to me as soon as it was up at YouTube.

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Soldier Peeks Behind the Scenes in Kuwait

[Another note from Jeri Reed, who wrote the powerful piece on the anti-war struggle I posted here only two days ago. This one introduces a new video by a friend of hers, a young IVAW member just Stop-Lossed from Ft. Hood to the Big Sandbox, who gives us a look behind the scenes at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, en route.]

Casey J. Porter posted a new video online today, The Staging Game. At first I thought, maybe I have sent out too many emails--until I watched it. You have to see the end of this one, when he visits the Harley dealer at his camp in Kuwait. I have spent many hours with such tools as maps and Google Earth, trying to envision what these bases are like, and never really understood until I watched this. A powerful message to soldiers on their first deployment who just don't get what the game is all about yet. Of course, Casey is no longer at this camp/shopping mall in Kuwait, but in the middle of Iraq, in an area with a lot of rocketing and mortaring and US air strikes, so think of him while you are watching.

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