In the spring of 2007, a conference was held on the outskirts of Washington, DC. Entitled Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, it harkened back to the Winter Soldier testimonies held three decades ago during the Vietnam War. Of the testimonies we filmed, this one, by Iraq War vet Jon Michael Turner, was the most compelling and intense.

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The British tabloid, The Daily Mirror reported recently that Iraqi rebels are rumored to be taking methamphetamine, which “is given to insurgents so they have no fear of taking on heavily-armed Coalition forces.”

A DRUG which makes users feel superhuman is being taken by rebel fanatics before they launch attacks against UK troops in Iraq.Now senior British officers fear the courage drug, which is known as a “pinky”, is flooding Basra where it could help fuel a second armed uprising.

Last night a senior Army source, who returned from Iraq two months ago, said there was a ” big drugs trade” in Basra and feared leaders of different terrorists groups would hand out the pills to their followers.

Quite the troublesome news…

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Allow our British lads and lasses over there to sup about 6 pints of Yorkshire’s best, and then tell them that the Iraqi combatants just slept with their mothers… stand back watch the shit hit the fan.

I just read a very disturbing article on cnn.com about how British troops broke through Iraqi prison walls to retrieve 2 British soldiers that allegedly shot at 2 Iraqi policemen and killed one of them. The Iraqi government have reissued their arrest warrants in connection with the shootings of the policemen.

what troubles me the most is the following statement from the Iraqi Governor:

Basra authorities said the operation violated Iraqi sovereignty, and the governor ordered all government employees to stop cooperating with the British, who have 8,500 troops in the Shiite Muslim-dominated region.aren’t we trying to rebuild the Iraqi region, building and preserving a new sovereignty? yet the British government feel it’s justified to break 2 of our own out of a prison govorned by the same political body we helped create.

I do not condone the actions of the British military nor government, this is going to set a precedent beyond rectifying.

Jesus Tony, if you’re going to play the game, play by the rules you set in the first place. Those 2 soldiers are on Iraqi soil, not UK soil.