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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">Introduction:—</small> ''"Collateral Murder"'' is a video that was released by ''"Wikileaks"'' onto YouTube in 2010,<ref name="sunshinepress (April 3rd, 2010).">sunshinepress (April 3rd, 2010). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq]''. YouTube. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> thanks in large parts to the efforts of Bradley Manning (now 'Chelsea Manning').<ref name="Schattle2012">Hans Schattle (2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nYBNtd-EZe0C&pg=PA72&dq=bradley+manning+released+collateral+murder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7yJXA3szRAhXkLcAKHcTKA3gQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=bradley%20manning%20released%20collateral%20murder&f=false Globalization and Citizenship]''. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7425-6846-4.</ref> It was released on April 3rd, and shows Iraqis, Iraqi children and several foreign journalists, being targeted and murdered<ref name="MeulenHeynen2016">Emily van der Meulen; Robert Heynen (2016). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8NkQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA185&dq=%22collateral+murder%22+2007&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd9fqJ0czRAhVMFMAKHd82A3QQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=%22collateral%20murder%22%202007&f=false Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance. University of Toronto Press. p. 185-186. ISBN 978-1-4426-2896-0.</ref><ref name="Giroux2015">Henry A. Giroux (17 November 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mP_uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future]''. Routledge. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-1-317-24858-3.</ref><ref name="LeoGiroux2015">Jeffrey R. Di Leo; Henry A. Giroux; Sophia A McClennen; Kenneth J. Saltman (17 November 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hx7vCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues]''. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-317-25560-4.</ref> by the US military (who used two ''"Apache"''<ref name="Lovell2014">David W. Lovell (28 November 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ukqjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&dq=%22collateral+murder%22+2007&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd9fqJ0czRAhVMFMAKHd82A3QQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22collateral%20murder%22%202007&f=false Investigating Operational Incidents in a Military Context:: Law, Justice, Politics]''. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 176. ISBN 978-90-04-27710-6.</ref><ref name="Tom Cohen (April 7th, 2010).">Tom Cohen (April 7th, 2010). ''[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/06/iraq.journalists.killed/ Leaked video reveals chaos of Baghdad attack]''. CNN. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> Gunships on July 12th, 2007).<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011).">Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 ‘Collateral Murder’ In Iraq]''. Huffington Post. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> Perhaps more problematic was that the US military actively covered up the murders,<ref name="Nicks2012">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+cover+up&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKzKHb1szRAhUjOsAKHWVdD3kQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20cover%20up&f=false Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref> and sent a statement published in the ''"New York Times"'', disingenuously calling them ''"insurgents"'' (they weren't) and ''"two civilians"'' (they ''all'' were).<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011)."/><ref group="n.">The video greatly angered Iraqis as exemplified by the fact that one man felt who was interviewed for a post-Saddam Iraq stated he wanted to kill Americans for revenge, not only for the killings of children but also the rape of children by White American soldiers.
#Victoria Fontan (30 December 2008). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MS463THdIYgC&pg=PA174&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny]''. ABC-CLIO. pp. 173–174. ISBN 978-0-313-36533-1.</ref> The ''"two"'' civilians that were murdered were 22 year old journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and 40 year old driver Saeed Chmagh.<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011)."/> The other victims remain unknown, but included two children—one of whom who's father was shot to death in a barrage of .30 cal cannon fire<ref name="Graf2015">Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf (23 June 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zcz1CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA76&dq=apache+ah-64+cannon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj53Krw2MzRAhVmFMAKHSzKD1QQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=apache%20ah-64%20cannon&f=false Apache - Boeing AH-64]''. Edizioni R.E.I. p. 76. ISBN 978-2-37297-223-9.</ref>—and one of whom had glass shards embedded in her eyes.<ref name="Kim Zetter (April 20th, 2010).">Kim Zetter (April 20th, 2010). ''[https://www.wired.com/2010/04/2007-iraq-apache-attack-as-seen-from-the-ground/ U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw]''. Wired. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref><ref name="bbcglass">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/9136984.stm US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack]''. October 28th, 2010. BBC News. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> The incident was covered up by the US military,<ref name="Madar2013">Chase Madar (26 March 2013). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k4VE0e0OfxMC&pg=PA49&dq=collateral+murder+ethan+mccord&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8o4LI3czRAhVTFMAKHZccAs0Q6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20ethan%20mccord&f=false The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower]''. Verso Books. p. 49-50. ISBN 978-1-78168-071-1.</ref> and laid to rest for two years<ref name="Nicks20122">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+covered+up+two+years&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8kses3MzRAhVmB8AKHckZCyIQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20covered%20up%20two%20years&f=falsev Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref> before Manning leaked it.<ref group="n.">The US government is still trying to cover it up by deflecting attention from the casual murders by the US military by torturing Manning and keeping them in horrific conditions, so that the public concentrates on her, rather than what she leaked.
#Greg Martin; Rebecca Scott Bray; Miiko Kumar (8 May 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TOojCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA224&dq=collateral+murder+covered+up+manning&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNoYiD2szRAhUBIsAKHaVvBGgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20covered%20up%20manning&f=false Secrecy, Law and Society]''. Routledge. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-317-57515-3.</ref> One of the soldiers who participated in the video was later interviewed, who described seeing the top half of one man's head who's ''"brains were on the ground"''.<ref name="rtvideo">''[https://www.rt.com/usa/collateral-video-murder-mccord-414/ Surviving 'Collateral Murder': Soldier relives infamous WikiLeaks video]''. April 7th, 2013. Russia Today. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> The same soldier described how he saw the ''"four year old [girl]"'' he had picked up have ''"a wound to [her] stomach...and...blood around her eyes"''.<ref name="rtvideo"/> The same soldier—who was one of the few good ones in the US military—was ''"exhilerated"'' when it was leaked online, and became public knowledge.<ref name="Nicks2012">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+cover+up&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKzKHb1szRAhUjOsAKHWVdD3kQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20cover%20up&f=false Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref>
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">A Rare Hero:—</small> Manning was orignally a military intelligence analyst working in Baghdad where in May 2010, she was formally arrested (presumably she was dismayed at the constant murdering the US was carrying out against Iraqis).<ref name="Petley2013">Julian Petley (15 August 2013). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pTmYT9HM1XEC&pg=PA86&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure]''. I.B.Tauris. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-78076-587-7.</ref> She later testified in court that she had leaked the massive archive of military and diplomatic cables, which amounted to a sum of over 700,000 documents.<ref name="HuffRoth2014">Mickey Huff; Andy Lee Roth; Project Censored (21 October 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EcpbAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT58&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013- 2014]''. Seven Stories Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-60980-566-1.</ref> The most important of them, which gained public traction was ''"collateral murder"''.<ref name="HuffRoth2014"/> Her primary motivation for the leak was down to the fact that she had wanted ''"to make the world a better place"'', and perhaps her most significant contribution was in exposing how the US military naturally operates; often mocking their innocent victims before murdering them.<ref name="HuffRoth2014"/> Manning had her sentence announced on April 2013, receiving a very harsh 35 year sentencing in prison.<ref name="Kenyon2016">Andrew T. Kenyon (21 April 2016). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x8PgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law]''. Cambridge University Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-107-12364-9.</ref> The US military court conviction was based on self-confessions she had allegedly made in an internet chat forum with a former journalist by the name of Adrian Lamo, who sold her out to the FBI and the army counter-intelligence command.<ref name="Petley2013"/> Although the leak was sufficiently large, all of it could be fitted onto a music CD, which it was, when she rescued the data.<ref name="Petley2013"/> At least 22 charges were filed against her.<ref name="Petley2013"/> Prior to the publication of ''"Collateral Murder"'', Manning had approved of the cuts made to the 40-minute video, which was ground down to the crucial 17 minutes that saw the lives of 11 citizen's brutally massacred.<ref name="Matt Sledge (June 12th, 2013).">Matt Sledge (June 12th, 2013). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/bradley-manning-collateral-murder_n_3428936.html Bradley Manning ‘Approved’ Edits To ‘Collateral Murder’ Video, Witness Says]''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 19th, 2017.</ref> Obama reduced her sentence in 2017.<ref name="Fred Kaplan (January 18th, 2017).">Fred Kaplan (January 18th, 2017). ''[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/01/why_president_obama_was_right_to_grant_chelsea_manning_clemency.html Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence]''. Slate. Retrieved January 19th, 2017.</ref>
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">How Many People Were Murdered Like This by the US?:—</small> The video tape of the highly organised—but heartless—massacre of Muslim civilians just by a single squad of US troops highlighted that thousands of attacks like this were indeed happening all across Iraq (and Afghanistan)—but were actively being covered up.<ref group="n.">Many more other cover ups include shooting to death pregnant women in Afghanistan, who then had the bullets dug out of their bodies.
#Rabbi Simon Altaf Hakohen. ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yjFKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT73&dq=US+cover+up+Collateral+murder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu6IOIu-fRAhUlBMAKHbSCBjIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=US%20cover%20up%20Collateral%20murder&f=false World War III - Salvation of the Jews]''. Lulu.com. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-9825080-0-8.</ref><ref group="n.">Another former soldier details how he ordered rockets to be fired into a building and came across a family whom he directly murdered. 

The sole survivor was the mother, who put her hand on the US soldiers cheek and said "Inshallah" ("God wills it"); he did not tell her he had just murdered her family, but regretted his actions in a video crying about another incidence of mass murder.

:#Grant Ivaw (September 16th, 2009). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMk3V3LZcQ American Soldier Against IRAQ War 'I Killed Innocent People']''. Youtube (abuusalih4). Retrieved May 5th, 2016.</ref> It furthermore highlighted that for US troops, this behaviour was completely normalised, allowed, encouraged and rewarded. It also brought attention to the heavily doctored casualty figures often released by the US military which were fed to the apathetic and unquestioning mainstream American media; who were actively spreading such heavily censored information and essentially acting as an indirect mouthpiece for the Republican regime in Washington, without having done ''any'' research themselves to verify the claims.<ref group="n.">The US media even actively promoted attacking Iraq, from "liberal hawks" to neo-conservatives.
#Michael Calderone (March 19th, 2013). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/iraq-media-failure-10-year-anniversary_n_2902177.html Iraq War Media Failure Can Happen Again]''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> The official death toll by the US military was always claimed at 100,000 dead. However this claim was absolutely destroyed by several high-quality, well-researched independent studies from reputable scientific journals, who verified it was several times higher; further reinforced by Wikileaks when they found the US was deliberately hiding the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslim dead themselves.<ref name="Forte2011">Maximilian C. Forte (October 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eC5uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA107&dq=wikileaks+iraq+casualties+higher+than+reported&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjup8nXxufRAhXnAsAKHcUDB5UQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=wikileaks%20iraq%20casualties%20higher%20than%20reported&f=false Interventionism, Information Warfare, and the Military-Academic Complex]''. Lulu.com. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-9868021-0-2.</ref><ref name="Star2011">Alexander Star (24 January 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6VVHgoCt9KQC&pg=PT339&dq=wikileaks+iraq+casualties+higher+than+reported&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjup8nXxufRAhXnAsAKHcUDB5UQ6AEIMjAE#v=onepage&q=wikileaks%20iraq%20casualties%20higher%20than%20reported&f=false Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy]''. The New York Times Company. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-615-43957-0.</ref> The respected medical journal ''"The Lancet"'' found that there were 654,965 deaths (2003—2006).<ref name="Gilbert Burnham, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts (2006).">Gilbert Burnham, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts (2006). ''[http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study, 2002-2006]''. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for International Studies, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Maryland School of Medicine and Al Mustansiriya University, Baghdad. (main website: http://web.mit.edu/humancostiraq/). Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Another, ''"PLoS One"'', found that at least 461,000 were brutally murdered by the Americans between (2003—2011).<ref name="plosonebbc">''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24547256 Iraq study estimates war-related deaths at 461,000]''. October 16th, 2013. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="Mills, Edward J.; Hagopian, Amy; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Takaro, Tim K.;">Mills, Edward J.; Hagopian, Amy; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Takaro, Tim K.; Esa Al Shatari, Sahar A.; Rajaratnam, Julie; Becker, Stan; Levin-Rector, Alison; Galway, Lindsay; Hadi Al-Yasseri, Berq J.; Weiss, William M.; Murray, Christopher J.; Burnham, Gilbert (2013). ''[http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533#abstract1 "Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study"]''. PLoS Medicine. 10 (10): e1001533. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533. ISSN 1549-1676.</ref> Additionally, 850,000 Muslim children died through the US's economic genocide programme.<ref group="n.">
This doesn't count the 850,000 children of Iraqi origin who were deliberately starved to death by the US in the 1990s. None survived throughout the economic genocide.
#Nafeez Ahmed (April 8th, 2015). ''[http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-western-wars-have-killed-four-million-muslims-1990-39149394 Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990]''. Middle-east Eye. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (2003). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2MbouuI0a50C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=1.7+million+iraq+sanctions+un&source=bl&ots=WOfr3ZhJv4&sig=tbEX32rbq1XKDJX1WdYawGrp6uA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OSzVVKCSN9Kd7gbyx4DgBQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=1.7%20million%20iraq%20sanctions%20un&f=false Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq]''. CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-902636-44-3.
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">How Did Ordinary US Citizens Feel About It?:—</small> Ordinary US citizens actively supported<ref name="americansvindicateiraqwar">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4178655.stm US voters 'endorsed Iraq policy']''. January 16th, 2005. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> (and even enjoyed) seeing Iraq being bombed.<ref name="Bibby2000">Michael Bibby (2000). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zzeBgB2dPx0C&pg=PA221&dq=how+many+bombs+were+dropped+on+iraq+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Yv2i-jRAhWJIsAKHe1iBAUQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=how%20many%20bombs%20were%20dropped%20on%20iraq%20war&f=false The Vietnam War and Postmodernity]''. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 220–221. ISBN 1-55849-238-0.</ref> In the 2004 presidential election, two years into the war— and despite it<ref name="Bonn2010">Scott A. Bonn (17 June 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QN1-LwAJYF4C&pg=PA127&dq=bush+reelected+despite+iraq+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHv6_chejRAhUrBcAKHWl0CTQQ6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q=bush%20reelected%20despite%20iraq%20war&f=false Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq]''. Rutgers University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8135-4996-5.</ref>—the US electorate re-elected George W. Bush back to power.<ref name="bushelectionreaction">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3983079.stm Bush victory: Global reaction]''. November 5th, 2004. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Over 62 million Americans voted him into office (with his opponent, John Kerry, only getting 59 million votes).<ref name="TrentFriedenberg2011">Judith S. Trent; Robert V. Friedenberg; Robert E. Denton (Jr.) (16 August 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z9XencqsS9gC&pg=PA319&dq=62+million+bush+2004&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw1dCShOjRAhWmJMAKHfamAukQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=62%20million%20bush%202004&f=false Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices]''. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4422-0671-7.</ref> In the previous election, Bush only received—and won with—50.5 million votes.<ref name="TrentFriedenberg2011"/> Even though it had been clear that Bush lied about his reasons for unleashing ''"shock and awe"'' onto the Iraqi people (which consisted of numerous—93% unguided, 70% missing-their-target-and-murdering-civilians<ref name="Bonn2010"/>—air raid bombings of cities filled with millions of Muslims), an extra 12 million Americans still voted for him.<ref group="n.">However, some authors however claim that the ''"number didn't add up"'', and imply that the elections were rigged.
#Richard Charnin (25 March 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vThxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT216&dq=bush+62+million+votes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJtI30gujRAhVPOMAKHToDDsQQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=bush%2062%20million%20votes&f=false Proving Election Fraud: Phantom Voters, Uncounted Votes, and the National Exit Poll]''. AuthorHouse. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-4520-0666-6.
#Michael Parenti (10 March 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6RI8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&dq=bush+62+million+votes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJtI30gujRAhVPOMAKHToDDsQQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=bush%2062%20million%20votes&f=false Democracy for the Few]''. Cengage Learning. p. 192. ISBN 1-111-79293-3.</ref> In 2000, Bush only had an approval rating of some 50%, but after the 9/11 incident, it skyrocketed to 95%.<ref name="gallup">''[http://www.gallup.com/poll/116500/presidential-approval-ratings-george-bush.aspx Presidential Approval Ratings -- George W. Bush]''. Gallup. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> It decreased to 58% just before the Iraq War broke out<ref name="gallup"/>—but immediately rocketed to 71%<ref name="gallup"/> after he declared war on Muslims and Islam.<ref name="Michael B. Kelley (May 11th, 2012).">Michael B. Kelley (May 11th, 2012). ''[http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-course-taught-that-islam-is-the-true-enemy-2012-5?IR=T This Controversial Pentagon Course Taught That Islam Is America's True Enemy]''. Business Insider. Retrieved Janauary 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="waronislamcourse">Associated Press in Washington (May 11th, 2012). ''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/11/us-military-course-islam-enemy US military course taught officers 'Islam is the enemy']''. The Guardian. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman (May 10th, 2012).">Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman (May 10th, 2012). ''[https://www.wired.com/2012/05/total-war-islam/?pid=1197 U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam]''. Wired. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Bush was a disaster overall, who brought in the 2008 global recession,<ref group="n.">''"Nonetheless, the bulk of the blame for the crisis must be assigned to the Bush administration’s fiscal policy and the Greenspan Fed’s monetary policy. Why? Quite simply: fear and greed. The economic and speculative boom launched by the fiscal and monetary policies of the early 2000s raised the returns to greed—that is, the incentive to take on additional risk—to extraordinary levels. No matter how fear-inspiring the regulation and supervision was—and it was not—it would have been overwhelmed by dangerously high levels of greed."''
#Richard S. Grossman (October 14th, 2013). ''[http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/greed_destroyed_us_all_george_w_bush_and_the_real_story_of_the_great_recession/ Greed destroyed us all: George W. Bush and the real story of the Great Recession]''. Salon. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> re-implemented barbaric medieval torture techniques from the Spanish Inquisition (1478—1834),<ref name="ReuterYoo2011">Dean Reuter; John Yoo (23 August 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hMTARm70kzEC&pg=PT91&dq=waterboarding+spanish+inquisition&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPk-iXhejRAhVmBMAKHXGEDBcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=waterboarding%20spanish%20inquisition&f=false Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security]''. Encounter Books. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-59403-563-0.</ref><ref name="Haas2009">Michael Haas (2009). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-DR-1TjtUcEC&pg=PA67&dq=bush+waterboarding&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUjPXFk-jRAhUqBsAKHSwXCjYQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=bush%20waterboarding&f=false George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes]''. ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-313-36499-0.</ref> created numerous secret concentration camps (called "black sites"),<ref name="Gonerko-Frej2017">Anna Gonerko-Frej (6 January 2017). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bjTZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA262&dq=cia+black+sites+concentration+camps&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijjubKmejRAhWjF8AKHYrYC3cQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=cia%20black%20sites%20concentration%20camps&f=false Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11: Volume 2 Perspectives in Language]''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-4438-6261-5.</ref> ballooned his countries debt,<ref group="n.">US Debt rose from $5.66 trillion dollars to $10.7 trillion dollars. The Obama presidency increased this amount to $19.57 trillion dollars through doing nothing about the policies that had Bush had implemented. In fact Obama continued Bush's policies, resulting in huge debt growth.
#''[https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+National+Debt+(2000+to+2008) US National Debt (2000 to 2008)]''. Wolfram Alpha. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#''[https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+National+Debt US National Debt]''. Wolfram Alpha. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#Robert U. Ayres (30 May 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=98-uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&dq=george+bush+caused+the+2008+recession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii4_PS_-fRAhWsLsAKHdfVDng4FBDoAQguMAQ#v=onepage&q=george%20bush%20caused%20the%202008%20recession&f=false The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?]''. MIT Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-262-02743-4.
#Kenneth Godwin; Scott H. Ainsworth; Erik Godwin (12 September 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ChrXRtPxDwgC&pg=PT85&dq=george+bush+caused+the+2008+recession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlk5vF_-fRAhWkDMAKHfnDDKU4ChDoAQg6MAU#v=onepage&q=george%20bush%20caused%20the%202008%20recession&f=false Lobbying and Policymaking: The Public Pursuit of Private Interests]''. SAGE. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-4522-8934-2.</ref> and not to mention the obvious fact that he was responsible for letting 9/11 happen in the first place,<ref name="Ball2005">Howard Ball (2005). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rLU1ryKOsP4C&pg=PR28&dq=9/11+occurred+on+Bush%27s+watch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDu5WagujRAhXlDMAKHYBKB5AQ6AEIRTAG#v=onepage&q=9%2F11%20occurred%20on%20Bush's%20watch&f=false U.S. Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook]''. ABC-CLIO. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-85109-803-3.</ref> as he ignored ''all'' warnings of an imminent incoming plot.<ref name="Cenk Ugyur (June 21st, 2012).">Cenk Ugyur (June 21st, 2012). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF935kBcKNY CIA Documents Show 9/11 Bin Laden Warnings Ignored]''. The Young Turks. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> By 2008, Bush scored a pathetic 29% approval rating.<ref name="gallup"/>
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| 00:03||Okay I got it.
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| 00:05||Last conversation Hotel Two-Six.
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| 00:09||Roger Hotel Two-Six [Apache helicopter 1], uh, [this is] Victor Charlie Alpha. Look, do you want your Hotel Two-Two two el-
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| 00:14||I got a black vehicle under target. It's arriving right to the north of the mosque.
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| 00:17||Yeah, I would like that. Over.
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| 00:21||Moving south by the mosque dome. Down that road.
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| 00:27||Okay we got a target fifteen coming at you. It's a guy with a weapon.
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| 00:32||Roger [acknowledged].
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| 00:39||There's a...
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| 00:42||There's about, ah, four or five...
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| 00:44||Bushmaster Six [ground control] copy [i hear you] One-Six.
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| 00:48||...this location and there's more that keep walking by and one of them has a weapon.
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| 00:52||Roger received target fifteen.
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| 00:55||K.
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| 00:57||See all those people standing down there.
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| 01:06||Stay firm. And open the courtyard.
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| 01:09||Yeah roger. I just estimate there's probably about twenty of them.
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| 01:13||There's one, yeah.
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| 01:15||Oh yeah.
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| 01:18||I don't know if that's a...
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| 01:19||Hey Bushmaster element [ground forces control], copy on the one-six.
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| 01:21||Thats a weapon.
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| 01:22||Yeah.
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| 01:23||Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight [second Apache helicopter].
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| 01:29||Copy on the one-six, Bushmaster Six-Romeo. Roger.
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| 01:32||Fucking prick.
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| 01:33||Hotel Two-Six this is Crazy Horse One-Eight [communication between chopper 1 and chopper 2]. Have individuals with weapons.
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| 01:41||Yup. He's got a weapon too.
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| 01:43||Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight. Have five to six individuals with AK47s [automatic rifles]. Request permission to engage [shoot].
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| 01:51||Roger that. Uh, we have no personnel east of our position. So, uh, you are free to engage. Over.
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| 02:00||All right, we'll be engaging.
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| 02:02||Roger, go ahead.
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| 02:03||I'm gonna... I cant get 'em now because they're behind that building.
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| 02:09||Um, hey Bushmaster element...
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| 02:10||He's got an RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenade]?
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| 02:11||All right, we got a guy with an RPG.
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| 02:13||I'm gonna fire.
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| 02:14||Okay.
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| 02:15||No hold on. Lets come around. Behind buildings right now from our point of view. ... Okay, we're gonna come around.
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| 02:19||Hotel Two-Six; have eyes on individual with RPG. Getting ready to fire. We won't...
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| 02:23||Yeah, we had a guy shoot---and now he's behind the building.
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| 02:26||God damn it.
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| 02:28||Uh, negative, he was, uh, right in front of the Brad [Bradley Fighting Vehicle; an tracked Armored Personal Carrier that looks like a tank]. Uh, 'bout, there, one o'clock. [direction/orientation]
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| 02:34||Haven't seen anything since then.
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| 02:36||Just fuckin', once you get on 'em just open 'em up.
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| 02:38||All right.
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| 02:40||I see your element, uh, got about four Humvees [Armored cars], uh, out along...
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| 02:43||You're clear.
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| 02:44||All right, firing.
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| 02:47||Let me know when you've got them.
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| 02:49||Lets shoot.
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| 02:50||Light 'em all up.
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| 02:52||Come on, fire!
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| 02:57||Keep shoot, keep shoot. [keep shooting]
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| 02:59||keep shoot.
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| 03:02||keep shoot.
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| 03:05||Hotel.. Bushmaster Two-Six, Bushmaster Two-Six, we need to move, time now!
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| 03:10||All right, we just engaged all eight individuals.
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| 03:12||Yeah, we see two birds [helicopters] and we're still fire [not firing].
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| 03:14||Roger.
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| 03:15||I got 'em.
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| 03:16||Two-six, this is Two-Six, we're mobile.
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| 03:19||Oops, I'm sorry what was going on?
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| 03:20||God damn it, Kyle.
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| 03:23||All right, hahaha, I hit [shot] 'em...
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| 03:28||Uh, you're clear.
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| 03:30||All right, I'm just trying to find targets again.
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| 03:38||Bushmaster Six, this is Bushmaster Two-Six.
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| 03:40||Got a bunch of bodies layin' there.
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| 03:42||All right, we got about, uh, eight individuals.
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| 03:46||Yeah, we got one guy crawling around down there, but, uh, you know, we got, definitely got something.
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| 03:51||We're shooting some more.
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| 03:52||Roger.
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| 03:56||Hey, you shoot, I'll talk.
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| 03:57||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:01||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six. Over.
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| 04:03||Roger. Currently engaging [fighting/shooting at] approximately eight individuals, uh KIA [Killed In Action], uh RPGs, and AK-47s.
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| 04:12||Hotel Two-Six, you need to move to that location once Crazyhorse is done and get pictures. Over.
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| 04:20||Six beacon gaia.
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| 04:24||Sergeant Twenty is the location.
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| 04:28||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:31||Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards.
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| 04:36||Nice.
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| 04:37||Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:44||Nice.
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| 04:47||Good shoot.
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| 04:48||Thank you.
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| 04:53||Hotel Two-Six.
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| 04:55||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 05:03||Crazyhorse One-Eight; Bushmaster Seven. Go ahead.
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| 05:06||Bushmaster Seven; Crazyhorse One-Eight. Uh, location of bodies, Mike Bravo five-four-five-eight eight-six-one-seven [military map grid reference].
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| 05:15||Hey, good on the uh...
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| 05:17||Five-four-five-eight eight-six-one-seven [map grid reference]. Over.
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| 05:21||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight, that's a good copy. They're on a street in front of an open, uh, courtyard with a bunch of blue uh trucks, bunch of vehicles in the courtyard.
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| 05:30||There's one guy moving down there but he's uh, he's wounded.
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| 05:35||All right, we'll let 'em know so they can hurry up and get over here.
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| 05:40||One-Eight, we also have one individual, uh, appears to be wounded trying to crawl away.
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| 05:49||Roger, we're gonna move down there.
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| 05:51||Roger, we'll cease fire.
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| 05:54||Yeah, we won't shoot anymore.
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| 06:01||He's getting up.
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| 06:02||Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?
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| 06:04||No, I haven't seen one yet.
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| 06:07||I see you guys got that guy crawling right now on that curb.
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| 06:08||Yeah, I got him. I put two rounds [30mm cannon shells] near him, and you guys were shooting over there too, so uh we'll see.
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| 06:14||Yeah, roger that.
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| 06:16||Bushmaster Thirty-Six Element; this is uh Hotel Two-Seven over.
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| 06:21||Hotel Two-Seven; Bushmaster Seven go ahead.
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| 06:24||Roger I'm just trying to make sure you guys have my turf [area], over.
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| 06:31||Roger we got your turf.
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| 06:33||Come on, buddy.
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| 06:38||All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.
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| 06:44||Crazyhorse this is Bushmaster Five, Bushmaster Four break. We are right below you right time now can you walk us onto that location over.
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| 06:54||This is Two-Six roger. I'll pop flares [drop flares]. We also have one individual moving. We're looking for weapons. If we see a weapon, we're gonna engage.
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| 07:07||Yeah Bushmaster, we have a van that's approaching and picking up the bodies.
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| 07:14||Where's that van at?
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| 07:15||Right down there by the bodies.
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| 07:16||Okay, yeah.
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| 07:18||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
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| 07:25||Let me engage.
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| 07:28||Can I shoot?
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| 07:31||Roger. Break. Uh Crazyhorse One-Eight request permission to uh engage.
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| 07:36||Picking up the wounded?
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| 07:38||Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage.
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| 07:41||Come on, let us shoot!
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| 07:44||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 07:49||They're taking him.
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| 07:51||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 07:56||This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead.
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| 07:59||Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck [van] picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
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| 08:02||Fuck.
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| 08:06||This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage.
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| 08:12||One-Eight, engage.
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| 08:12||Clear.
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| 08:13||Come on!
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| 08:17||Clear.
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| 08:20||Clear.
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| 08:21||We're engaging.
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| 08:26||Coming around. Clear.
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| 08:27||Roger. Trying to uh...
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| 08:32||Clear.
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| 08:35||I hear 'em co.. I lost 'em in the dust.
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| 08:36||I got 'em.
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| 08:41||I'm firing.
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| 08:42||This is Bushmaster Forty got any BDA [Battle Damage Assessment] on that truck. Over.
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| 08:44||You're clear.
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| 08:47||This is ah Crazyhorse. Stand by.
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| 08:47||I can't shoot for some reason.
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| 08:49||Go ahead.
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| 08:50||I think the van's disabled.
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| 08:53||Go ahead and shoot it.
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| 08:54||I got an azimuth limit for some reason [gunner moved gunsight too far]
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| 09:00||Go left.
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| 09:03||Clear left.
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| 09:15||All right, Bushmaster Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 09:20||A vehicle appears to be disabled.
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| 09:22||There were approximately four to five individuals in vehicle moving bodies.
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| 09:28||Your lead Bradley should take the next right.
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| 09:31||That's cruising east down the road.
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| 09:34||No more shooting.
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| 09:38||Crazyhorse; this is Bushmaster Four. We're moving a dismounted element [troops] straight south through the Bradleys [tanks].
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| 09:44||I have your Elem- uh, Bradley element turning south down the road where the engagements were.
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| 09:53||Last call on station's uh Bradley element say again.
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| 09:56||Roger this is Crazyhorse.
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| 09:58||Your lead Bradley just turned south down the road where all the engagements [shooting] happened.
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| 10:03||Should have a van in the middle of the road with about twelve to fifteen bodies.
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| 10:11||Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield!
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| 10:14||Ha ha!
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| 10:16||All right. There were uh approximately four to five individuals in that truck, so I'm counting about twelve to fifteen.
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| 10:24||I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment so far.
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| 10:27||Roger that.
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| 10:29||I want to just be advised Six, Bushmaster Six are getting mounted up right now.
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| 10:35||Okay, roger. Hey, we can't flex down that road towards that, uh, where Crazyhorse engaged.
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| 10:43||So, uh, I don't know if you want us to do so or stay put. Over.
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| 10:46||Why can't they go down there?
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| 10:56||I think we whacked [killed] 'em all.
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| 10:58||That's right, good.
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| 10:59||This is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 11:03||Hey you got my dismounted element [troops] right there over to your left.
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| 11:06||Roger, I see 'em.
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| 11:11||Hey yeah, roger, be advised, there were some guys popping out with AKs behind that dirt pile break.
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| 11:19||We also took some RPGs off, uh, earlier, so just uh make sure your men keep your eyes open.
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| 11:26||Roger.
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| 11:27||And, uh, Bushmaster ahead are, uh, Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 11:33||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 11:35||Yeah Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 11:37||Uh, location I have about twelve to fifteen dead bodies.
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| 11:42||Uh, where else are we taking fire from?
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| 11:48||Currently we're not being engaged, ah, but just south of that location. Break.
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| 11:55||You should see dismounted elements with Humvees [armored cars] moving to the east, over.
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| 12:01||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight; we have elements in sight.
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| 12:05||Bushmaster Three-Six.
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| 12:07||I'm gonna get down a little lower.
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| 12:09||All right.
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| 12:10||I'm gonna come down a little lower and take a quick gander.
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| 12:13||Roger that.
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| 12:14||Six; this is four. We're headed to the area where Crazyhorse engaged.
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| 12:26||Bushmaster Six; this is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 12:28||Request to go to the south to our original BP so if you flushed them to the south we will be there to uh intercept over.
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| 12:39||Hey this is Bushmaster Seven; we're coming up on B... on the ass end of the Brads [tanks].
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| 12:54||Hey uh, Bushmaster Element; this is Copperhead One-Six break.
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| 13:00||We're moving in the vicinity of the engagement area and looks like we've got some slight movement from ah, the ah van that was engaged.
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| 13:06||Looks like a kid. Over.
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| 13:11||This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Uh, we're about a hundred meters behind you.
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| 13:16||Got that big pile, to the right?
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| 13:18||Roger, you gonna pull in here? Do you want me to push stuff so you can, uh, get clear of it?
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| 13:21||Right on the corner?
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| 13:22||What's that?
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| 13:23||Got that big pile of bodies to the right, on the corner?
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| 13:24||Yeah, right here.
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| 13:25||We got a dismounted infantry and vehicles, over.
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| 13:30||Again, roger.
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| 13:31||And clear.
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| 13:48||There's the Bradley right there.
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| 13:51||Got 'em.
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| 14:00||Hotel two-six; are you uh at this grid over?
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| 14:05||Yeah I wanted to get you around so didn't you just get that one dude to scare them all away. It worked out pretty good.
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| 14:11||I didn't want those fuckers to run away and scatter.
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| 14:12||Yeah.
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| 14:15||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six. Roger, we linked up with our two element they are all mounted up in our trucks break.
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| 14:23||We moved south so that we could ah possibly intercept personnel being flushed south. So we are vicinity Fifth Street.
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| 14:30||And ah please line Gadins. Over.
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| 14:37||Bring the trucks in, cordon this area off.
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| 14:39||Can we move the Bradley forward so we can bring trucks in and cordon off this area.
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| 14:44||If the Bradleys could take the south cordon, that could help out a lot.
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| 14:53||Bushmaster or element. Which Element called in Crazyhorse to engage the eight-elem- eight-men team on top of a roof.
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| 15:02||Bushmaster Six; this is Hotel Two-Six. Uh, I believe that was me.
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| 15:07||They uh had AK-47s and were to our east, so, where we were taking small arms fire. Over.
|-
| 15:20||Hotel Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 15:26||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 15:28||Yeah Two-Six. One-Eight I just also wanted to make sure you knew that we had a guy with an RPG cropping round the corner getting ready to fire on your location.
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| 15:36||That's why we ah, requested permission to engage.
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| 15:40||Ok, roger that. Tango mike.
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| 15:46||Hotel Two-Six; do you understand me, over?
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| 15:51||I did not copy last, uh, you got stepped on. Say again please?
|-
| 16:00||They cordoned off the building that the helicopters killed the personnel on.
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| 16:04||Don't go anywhere else we need to cordon off that building so we can get on top of the roof and SSC the building. Over.
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| 16:13||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 16:16||This is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 16:19||Hey, whoever was talking about rooftops, know that all the personnel we engaged were ground level. I say again ground level.
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| 16:27||Roger I copy ground level. Over.
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| 16:30||One-Eight roger.
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| 16:33||Can I get a grid to that one more time please?
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| 16:36||Target twenty.
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| 16:36||Roger.
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| 16:40||You want me to take over talking to them?
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| 16:42||S'alright.
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| 16:46||Seven-Six Romeo Over.
|-
| 16:49||Roger, I've got uh eleven Iraqi KIAs [Killed In Action]. One small child wounded. Over.
|-
| 16:57||Roger. Ah damn. Oh well.
|-
| 17:04||Roger, we need, we need a uh to evac [evacuate] this child. Ah, she's got a uh, she's got a wound to the belly.
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| 17:10||I can't do anything here. She needs to get evaced. Over.
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| 17:18||Bushmaster Seven, Bushmaster Seven; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo.
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| 17:20||We need your location over.
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| 17:25||Roger, we're at the location where Crazyhorse engaged the RPG fire break.
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| 17:37||Grid five-four-five-eight.
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| 17:46||Well it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.
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| 17:48||That's right.
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| 17:56||Got uh, eleven.
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| 18:01||Yeah uh, roger. We're monitoring [observing].
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| 18:02||Sorry.
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| 18:04||No problem.
|-
| 18:07||Correction eight-six-one-six.
|-
| 18:16||Looking for more individuals-south.
|-
| 18:18||Bushmaster Six-Bushmaster Seven.
|-
| 18:29||I think they just drove over a body.
|-
| 18:31||Hey hey!
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| 18:32||Yeah!
|-
| 18:37||Maybe it was just a visual illusion, but it looked like it.
|-
| 18:41||Well, they're dead, so.
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| 18:44||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 18:56||Six; this is Four. I got one individual looks like he's got an RPG round laying underneath him. Break.
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| 19:05||Probably like to get...
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| 19:10||Look at that.
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| 19:12||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 19:29||Bushmaster Six; Romeo Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 19:44||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 19:56||Hotel Two-Six; Bushmaster Seven colocated with Six.
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| 20:08||Hotel Two-Six; Bushmaster Seven.
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| 20:10||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 20:14||Roger, we got a little girl who needs to be evaced. What's your location over?
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| 20:22||On route Gadins, I am all the way to the south. So I am Gadins and Fifth Street.
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| 20:28||I say again Gadins and Fifth Street, over.
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| 20:40||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six. Do you want us to push to your location?
|-
| 20:55||Hey, uh, I need to get the Brads to drop rads I got a wounded little girl we need to take her off the maya.
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| 21:04||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six. Do you want us to move to your location over?
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| 21:30||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 21:34||Hotel Two-Six; this is Bushmaster Seven. Roger, come to our location.
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| 21:39||Okay, roger, we're coming up north on Gadins and then we will push east to your location.
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| 22:06||Bushmaster elements be advised we have friendlies coming from the south to your location. Over.
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| 22:13||All right, got 'em moving up from the south.
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| 22:35||Bushmaster elements be advised we are coming up from the east.
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| 23:49||Hey One-Two; follow me over. I'm going to try and get out of here as quickly as possible.
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| 24:10||You guys all right back there?
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| 24:13||Yeah, we're with you.
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| 24:35||Lotta guys down there.
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| 24:37||Oh yeah.
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| 24:37||Came out of the woodwork.
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| 24:38||This is Operation, ah, Operation Secure.
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| 25:16||Yeah we have fifty rounds left.
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| 25:17||Yep.
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| 25:19||Two-Six; Six Romeo over.
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| 25:21||Two-Six; Romeo over.
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| 25:23||Hey roger, what's your current location over?
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| 25:47||Six; speak it's Romeo.
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| 25:50||Three-Six Romeo; Six Romeo over.
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| 25:52||Roger, at the six once it's back on this guy.
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| 25:56||Lost him.
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| 26:00||What's he got for us?
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| 26:01||Stand by.
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| 26:06||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:21||Hey, did you got action on that target yet over?
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| 26:25||Speak to Charlie roger.
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| 26:32||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:55||Bushmaster Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:59||Roger, you have traffic over.
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| 27:02||Roger. Uh, just wondering if you had anything else you wanted us to drive on?
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| 27:08||Yeah roger keep on, ah, for the time being over.
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| 27:11||Six calls Six Romeo. Can you tell battalion that two civilian children casualties are coming back to SMI in the Bradley over.
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| 27:26||Six calls Six Romeo.
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| 27:29||Bushmaster Six Copper White Six.
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| 27:32||Copperhead White Six; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo over.
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| 27:36||Roger, that's a negative on the evac of the two, ah, civilian, ah, kids to, ah, rusty they're going to have the IPs [Iraqi Police] link up. They can put us over here. Break. IPs will take them up to a local hospital over.
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| 27:50||Copy over.
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| 27:54||One six oh.
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| 28:08||... they're all going to.
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| 28:10||Say again?
|-
| 28:12||Where all those dismounts [infantry] are going to?
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| 28:18||Going into this hous-. Sorry
|-
| 29:29||Three Six, Three Six; Bushmaster Six Romeo over.
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| 29:37||Six Romeo, Six Romeo.
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| 29:39||Roger, Bushmaster Seven wants an up on all personnel in your battalion over.
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| 29:44||Roger.
|-
| 30:08||...friendlies [US troops] on the roof.
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| 30:10||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Bushmaster Four over.
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| 30:12||Bushmaster Four; this is Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 30:15||Roger, I can ah hear small arms fire from your engagement area at two zero zero zero ah about three hundred meters from that objective over.
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| 30:27||Crazyhorse; from what I understand small arms fire at two zero zero zero degrees about two hundred meters.
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| 30:39||Just to the southwest.
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| 30:41||Yup.
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| 30:49||Right about where we engaged.
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| 30:51||Yeah, One of them with that RPG or whatever.
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| 30:55||He's got a weapon. Got an RK--AK 47.
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| 30:58||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 31:02||Gonna lose him.
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| 31:03||Crazyhorse One-Eight this is Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 31:08||Roger, have another individual with a weapon.
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| 31:10||Dammit, they're in the same building.
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| 31:12||Hey roger that, just make sure that ah, you're firing from west to east over.
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| 31:16||Just went in the building.
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| 31:18||Crazyhorse Three and Four will be on their way.
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| 31:21||The individual walked into the building previously past grid [map reference]. So there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons.
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| 31:30||We can put a missile in it.
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| 31:31||If you'd like, ah, Crazyhorse One-Eight could put a missile in that building.
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| 31:46||It's a triangle building. Appears to be ah, abandoned.
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| 31:51||Yeah, looks like it's under construction, abandoned.
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| 31:52||Appears to be abandoned, under construction.
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| 31:56||Uh, like I said, six individuals walked in there from our previous engagement.
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| 32:01||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo. If you've PIDed [Positively IDentified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building over.
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| 32:08||Crazyhorse One-Eight; will be coming up north to south engaging with Hellfire [missiles].
|-
| 32:13||All right, I'm going to do manual.
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| 32:17||All right, we've been cleared to engage with...
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| 32:18||This is Bushmaster Six Romeo. Crazyhorse One Eight is going to be engaging north to south with Hellfire missiles over.
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| 32:24||This is Hotel Two-Six. Roger.
|-
| 32:26||All right, you ready?
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| 32:27||No, I'm trying to get over to the November [target]. Trying to find the fucking...
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| 32:33||This is Bushmaster Six. Has that RPG round been extended already or is it still live, over.
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| 32:38||Looks live to me.
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| 32:40||Let me know when you're going to fire.
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| 32:44||All right, I'm fucking having a brain fart. Where's the man [manual] advancement?
|-
| 32:48||You got one on the clutch on the bottom left on your left door.
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| 32:54||Roger let me stand by.
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| 32:57||Got it?
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| 32:59||No.
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| 33:03||All right.
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| 33:09||Let me just put a kilo [Hellfire missile] in there.
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| 33:12||Ok.
|-
| 33:15||Got it?
|-
| 33:21||Put a kilo in?
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| 33:22||All right, let me get back.
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| 33:26||I'm gonna come around, get some more distance.
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| 33:27||Roger that, you're clear.
|-
| 33:33||Got more individuals in there.
|-
| 33:36||You wanna hit from north to south or you wanna go from west to east? I don't wanna fire with the friendlies [US forces] right there, you know.
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| 33:41||Yeah, go north to south.
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| 33:53||Right, come around, right.
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| 33:56||I'm just gonna put one or two in, if they want any more.
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| 34:09||Right.
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| 34:12||Found the missile.
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| 34:15||Roger, I'll get you in this straight.
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| 34:16||You're clear.
|-
| 34:17||I'm firing.
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| 34:26||Target hit.
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| 34:28||It was a missile.
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| 34:29||Left.
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| 34:32||You're clear. I'm above you.
|-
| 34:36||Crazyhorse One-Eight; was that explosion you engaging over?
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| 34:38||Crazyhorse One Eight, roger. Engaging building with one hellfire.
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| 34:46||Let's come around and we'll clear the smoke. We'll fire one more.
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| 34:50||Hey uh, we're going to wait for the smoke to clear.
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| 34:52||Yes Crazyhorse One Eight now. We're going to put one more missile into the building.
|-
| 34:57||Yeah, did it ah, go in the building? I see the wall knocked out of the way.
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| 34:59||Yeah, it went in.
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| 35:01||Bushmaster Six Romeo; this is Hotel Two-Six. Yeah roger, that was Crazyhorse engaging with one Hellfire over.
|-
| 35:10||Yeah roger, I got a November [target] if you want.
|-
| 35:12||Fire away.
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| 35:13||You want us to fire?
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| 35:18||You ready?
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| 35:19||Yep.
|-
| 35:20||Bushmaster Six Romeo. They are going to engage ah, with one more Hellfire in that building.
|-
| 35:24||Uh shit, why I do I have AP flashing on there? [warning on helicopter display]
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| 35:47||We're not even going to watch this fucking shit?
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| 35:49||Till next one. It won't come around, I need a little more distance.
|-
| 35:53||Still want me to shoot?
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| 35:57||You guys, following hot.
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| 35:59||Roger.
|-
| 36:13||You are clear.
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| 36:14||Roger.
|-
| 36:16||You going to bring up the missile?
|-
| 36:18||Roger.
|-
| 36:19||And firing.
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| 36:20||Come down? There you go.
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| 36:23||Fire.
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| 36:24||All right.
|-
| 36:28||I've got, ah BACKSCATTER [warning on helicopter display].
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| 36:30||All right, come around.
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| 36:32||Roger.
|-
| 36:34||Coming around left, backscatter.
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| 36:49||Firing.
|-
| 36:53||There it goes! Look at that bitch go!
|-
| 36:56||Patoosh!
|-
| 37:03||Ah, sweet.
|-
| 37:07||Need a little more room.
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| 37:09||Nice missile.
|-
| 37:11||Does it look good?
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| 37:12||Sweet!
|-
| 37:16||Uh, you ready?
|-
| 37:18||Roger.
|-
| 37:30||There's a lot of dust.
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| 37:36||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six. Was there a BDA [Battle Damage Assessment]?
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| 37:40||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight. Stand by, engaging with another Hellfire.
|-
| 37:43||All right.
|-
| 37:45||You're clear.
|-
| 37:47||Lemme know when I'm clear.
|-
| 37:50||Roger that.
|-
| 37:59||He wasn't.
|-
| 38:02||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 38:07||Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 38:09||Roger, building destroyed. Engaged with three hellfire missiles.
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">Introduction:—</small> ''"Collateral Murder"'' is a video that was released by ''"Wikileaks"'' onto YouTube in 2010,<ref name="sunshinepress (April 3rd, 2010).">sunshinepress (April 3rd, 2010). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq]''. YouTube. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> thanks in large parts to the efforts of Bradley Manning (now 'Chelsea Manning').<ref name="Schattle2012">Hans Schattle (2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nYBNtd-EZe0C&pg=PA72&dq=bradley+manning+released+collateral+murder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7yJXA3szRAhXkLcAKHcTKA3gQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=bradley%20manning%20released%20collateral%20murder&f=false Globalization and Citizenship]''. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7425-6846-4.</ref> It was released on April 3rd, and shows Iraqis, Iraqi children and several foreign journalists, being targeted and murdered<ref name="MeulenHeynen2016">Emily van der Meulen; Robert Heynen (2016). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8NkQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA185&dq=%22collateral+murder%22+2007&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd9fqJ0czRAhVMFMAKHd82A3QQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=%22collateral%20murder%22%202007&f=false Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance. University of Toronto Press. p. 185-186. ISBN 978-1-4426-2896-0.</ref><ref name="Giroux2015">Henry A. Giroux (17 November 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mP_uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future]''. Routledge. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-1-317-24858-3.</ref><ref name="LeoGiroux2015">Jeffrey R. Di Leo; Henry A. Giroux; Sophia A McClennen; Kenneth J. Saltman (17 November 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hx7vCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues]''. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-317-25560-4.</ref> by the US military (who used two ''"Apache"''<ref name="Lovell2014">David W. Lovell (28 November 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ukqjBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&dq=%22collateral+murder%22+2007&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd9fqJ0czRAhVMFMAKHd82A3QQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22collateral%20murder%22%202007&f=false Investigating Operational Incidents in a Military Context:: Law, Justice, Politics]''. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 176. ISBN 978-90-04-27710-6.</ref><ref name="Tom Cohen (April 7th, 2010).">Tom Cohen (April 7th, 2010). ''[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/06/iraq.journalists.killed/ Leaked video reveals chaos of Baghdad attack]''. CNN. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> Gunships on July 12th, 2007).<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011).">Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 ‘Collateral Murder’ In Iraq]''. Huffington Post. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> Perhaps more problematic was that the US military actively covered up the murders,<ref name="Nicks2012">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+cover+up&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKzKHb1szRAhUjOsAKHWVdD3kQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20cover%20up&f=false Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref> and sent a statement published in the ''"New York Times"'', disingenuously calling them ''"insurgents"'' (they weren't) and ''"two civilians"'' (they ''all'' were).<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011)."/><ref group="n.">The video greatly angered Iraqis as exemplified by the fact that one man felt who was interviewed for a post-Saddam Iraq stated he wanted to kill Americans for revenge, not only for the killings of children but also the rape of children by White American soldiers.
#Victoria Fontan (30 December 2008). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MS463THdIYgC&pg=PA174&dq=collateral+murder+iraqi+children&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiardPN1MzRAhWLBsAKHVudBOIQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20iraqi%20children&f=false Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny]''. ABC-CLIO. pp. 173–174. ISBN 978-0-313-36533-1.</ref> The ''"two"'' civilians that were murdered were 22 year old journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and 40 year old driver Saeed Chmagh.<ref name="Dan Froomkin (May 25th, 2011)."/> The other victims remain unknown, but included two children—one of whom who's father was shot to death in a barrage of .30 cal cannon fire<ref name="Graf2015">Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf (23 June 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zcz1CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA76&dq=apache+ah-64+cannon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj53Krw2MzRAhVmFMAKHSzKD1QQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=apache%20ah-64%20cannon&f=false Apache - Boeing AH-64]''. Edizioni R.E.I. p. 76. ISBN 978-2-37297-223-9.</ref>—and one of whom had glass shards embedded in her eyes.<ref name="Kim Zetter (April 20th, 2010).">Kim Zetter (April 20th, 2010). ''[https://www.wired.com/2010/04/2007-iraq-apache-attack-as-seen-from-the-ground/ U.S. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw]''. Wired. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref><ref name="bbcglass">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/9136984.stm US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack]''. October 28th, 2010. BBC News. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> The incident was covered up by the US military,<ref name="Madar2013">Chase Madar (26 March 2013). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k4VE0e0OfxMC&pg=PA49&dq=collateral+murder+ethan+mccord&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8o4LI3czRAhVTFMAKHZccAs0Q6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20ethan%20mccord&f=false The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower]''. Verso Books. p. 49-50. ISBN 978-1-78168-071-1.</ref> and laid to rest for two years<ref name="Nicks20122">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+covered+up+two+years&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8kses3MzRAhVmB8AKHckZCyIQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20covered%20up%20two%20years&f=falsev Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref> before Manning leaked it.<ref group="n.">The US government is still trying to cover it up by deflecting attention from the casual murders by the US military by torturing Manning and keeping them in horrific conditions, so that the public concentrates on her, rather than what she leaked.
#Greg Martin; Rebecca Scott Bray; Miiko Kumar (8 May 2015). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TOojCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA224&dq=collateral+murder+covered+up+manning&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNoYiD2szRAhUBIsAKHaVvBGgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20covered%20up%20manning&f=false Secrecy, Law and Society]''. Routledge. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-317-57515-3.</ref> One of the soldiers who participated in the video was later interviewed, who described seeing the top half of one man's head who's ''"brains were on the ground"''.<ref name="rtvideo">''[https://www.rt.com/usa/collateral-video-murder-mccord-414/ Surviving 'Collateral Murder': Soldier relives infamous WikiLeaks video]''. April 7th, 2013. Russia Today. Retrieved January 18th, 2017.</ref> The same soldier described how he saw the ''"four year old [girl]"'' he had picked up have''"a wound to [her] stomach...and...blood around her eyes"''.<ref name="rtvideo"/> The same soldier—who was one of the few good ones in the US military—was ''"exhilerated"'' when it was leaked online, and became public knowledge.<ref name="Nicks2012">Denver Nicks (1 June 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GE_yDipSkYQC&pg=PA160&dq=collateral+murder+cover+up&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKzKHb1szRAhUjOsAKHWVdD3kQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20cover%20up&f=false Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History]''. Chicago Review Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-61374-071-2.</ref>
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">A Rare Hero:—</small> Manning was orignally a military intelligence analyst working in Baghdad where in May 2010, she was formally arrested (presumably she was dismayed at the constant murdering the US was carrying out against Iraqis).<ref name="Petley2013">Julian Petley (15 August 2013). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pTmYT9HM1XEC&pg=PA86&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure]''. I.B.Tauris. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-78076-587-7.</ref> She later testified in court that she had leaked the massive archive of military and diplomatic cables, which amounted to a sum of over 700,000 documents.<ref name="HuffRoth2014">Mickey Huff; Andy Lee Roth; Project Censored (21 October 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EcpbAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT58&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013- 2014]''. Seven Stories Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-60980-566-1.</ref> The most important of them, which gained public traction was ''"collateral murder"''.<ref name="HuffRoth2014"/> Her primary motivation for the leak was down to the fact that she had wanted ''"to make the world a better place"'', and perhaps her most significant contribution was in exposing how the US military naturally operates; often mocking their innocent victims before murdering them.<ref name="HuffRoth2014"/> Manning had her sentence announced on April 2013, receiving a very harsh 35 year sentencing in prison.<ref name="Kenyon2016">Andrew T. Kenyon (21 April 2016). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x8PgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&dq=collateral+murder+manning+700,000&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCqo6Xq83RAhWTF8AKHR7CBm4Q6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=collateral%20murder%20manning%20700%2C000&f=false Comparative Defamation and Privacy Law]''. Cambridge University Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-107-12364-9.</ref> The US military court conviction was based on self-confessions she had allegedly made in an internet chat forum with a former journalist by the name of Adrian Lamo, who sold her out to the FBI and the army counter-intelligence command.<ref name="Petley2013"/> Although the leak was sufficiently large, all of it could be fitted onto a music CD, which it was, when she rescued the data.<ref name="Petley2013"/> At least 22 charges were filed against her.<ref name="Petley2013"/> Prior to the publication of ''"Collateral Murder"'', Manning had approved of the cuts made to the 40-minute video, which was ground down to the crucial 17 minutes that saw the lives of 11 citizen's brutally massacred.<ref name="Matt Sledge (June 12th, 2013).">Matt Sledge (June 12th, 2013). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/bradley-manning-collateral-murder_n_3428936.html Bradley Manning ‘Approved’ Edits To ‘Collateral Murder’ Video, Witness Says]''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 19th, 2017.</ref> Obama reduced her sentence in 2017.<ref name="Fred Kaplan (January 18th, 2017).">Fred Kaplan (January 18th, 2017). ''[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/01/why_president_obama_was_right_to_grant_chelsea_manning_clemency.html Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence]''. Slate. Retrieved January 19th, 2017.</ref>
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">How Many People Were Murdered Like This by the US?:—</small> The video tape of the highly organised—but heartless—massacre of Muslim civilians just by a single squad of US troops highlighted that thousands of attacks like this were indeed happening all across Iraq (and Afghanistan)—but were actively being covered up.<ref group="n.">Many more other cover ups include shooting to death pregnant women in Afghanistan, who then had the bullets dug out of their bodies.
#Rabbi Simon Altaf Hakohen. ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yjFKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT73&dq=US+cover+up+Collateral+murder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu6IOIu-fRAhUlBMAKHbSCBjIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=US%20cover%20up%20Collateral%20murder&f=false World War III - Salvation of the Jews]''. Lulu.com. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-9825080-0-8.</ref><ref group="n.">Another former soldier details how he ordered rockets to be fired into a building and came across a family whom he directly murdered. 

The sole survivor was the mother, who put her hand on the US soldiers cheek and said "Inshallah" ("God wills it"); he did not tell her he had just murdered her family, but regretted his actions in a video crying about another incidence of mass murder.

:#Grant Ivaw (September 16th, 2009). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMk3V3LZcQ American Soldier Against IRAQ War 'I Killed Innocent People']''. Youtube (abuusalih4). Retrieved May 5th, 2016.</ref> It furthermore highlighted that for US troops, this behaviour was completely normalised, allowed, encouraged and rewarded. It also brought attention to the heavily doctored casualty figures often released by the US military which were fed to the apathetic and unquestioning mainstream American media; who were actively spreading such heavily censored information and essentially acting as an indirect mouthpiece for the Republican regime in Washington, without having done ''any'' research themselves to verify the claims.<ref group="n.">The US media even actively promoted attacking Iraq, from "liberal hawks" to neo-conservatives.
#Michael Calderone (March 19th, 2013). ''[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/iraq-media-failure-10-year-anniversary_n_2902177.html Iraq War Media Failure Can Happen Again]''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> The official death toll by the US military was always claimed at 100,000 dead. However this claim was absolutely destroyed by several high-quality, well-researched independent studies from reputable scientific journals, who verified it was several times higher; further reinforced by Wikileaks when they found the US was deliberately hiding the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslim dead themselves.<ref name="Forte2011">Maximilian C. Forte (October 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eC5uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA107&dq=wikileaks+iraq+casualties+higher+than+reported&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjup8nXxufRAhXnAsAKHcUDB5UQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=wikileaks%20iraq%20casualties%20higher%20than%20reported&f=false Interventionism, Information Warfare, and the Military-Academic Complex]''. Lulu.com. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-9868021-0-2.</ref><ref name="Star2011">Alexander Star (24 January 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6VVHgoCt9KQC&pg=PT339&dq=wikileaks+iraq+casualties+higher+than+reported&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjup8nXxufRAhXnAsAKHcUDB5UQ6AEIMjAE#v=onepage&q=wikileaks%20iraq%20casualties%20higher%20than%20reported&f=false Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy]''. The New York Times Company. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-615-43957-0.</ref> The respected medical journal ''"The Lancet"'' found that there were 654,965 deaths (2003—2006).<ref name="Gilbert Burnham, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts (2006).">Gilbert Burnham, Shannon Doocy, Elizabeth Dzeng, Riyadh Lafta, Les Roberts (2006). ''[http://web.mit.edu/CIS/pdf/Human_Cost_of_War.pdf The Human Cost of the War in Iraq: A Mortality Study, 2002-2006]''. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for International Studies, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Maryland School of Medicine and Al Mustansiriya University, Baghdad. (main website: http://web.mit.edu/humancostiraq/). Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Another, ''"PLoS One"'', found that at least 461,000 were brutally murdered by the Americans between (2003—2011).<ref name="plosonebbc">''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24547256 Iraq study estimates war-related deaths at 461,000]''. October 16th, 2013. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="Mills, Edward J.; Hagopian, Amy; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Takaro, Tim K.;">Mills, Edward J.; Hagopian, Amy; Flaxman, Abraham D.; Takaro, Tim K.; Esa Al Shatari, Sahar A.; Rajaratnam, Julie; Becker, Stan; Levin-Rector, Alison; Galway, Lindsay; Hadi Al-Yasseri, Berq J.; Weiss, William M.; Murray, Christopher J.; Burnham, Gilbert (2013). ''[http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533#abstract1 "Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study"]''. PLoS Medicine. 10 (10): e1001533. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533. ISSN 1549-1676.</ref> Additionally, 850,000 Muslim children died through the US's economic genocide programme.<ref group="n.">
This doesn't count the 850,000 children of Iraqi origin who were deliberately starved to death by the US in the 1990s. None survived throughout the economic genocide.
#Nafeez Ahmed (April 8th, 2015). ''[http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-western-wars-have-killed-four-million-muslims-1990-39149394 Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990]''. Middle-east Eye. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (2003). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2MbouuI0a50C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=1.7+million+iraq+sanctions+un&source=bl&ots=WOfr3ZhJv4&sig=tbEX32rbq1XKDJX1WdYawGrp6uA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OSzVVKCSN9Kd7gbyx4DgBQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=1.7%20million%20iraq%20sanctions%20un&f=false Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq]''. CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-902636-44-3.
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<small style="border:1px solid; padding:1px 3px; background:#ff0000; color:#FFFFFF; white-space:nowrap">How Did Ordinary US Citizens Feel About It?:—</small> Ordinary US citizens actively supported<ref name="americansvindicateiraqwar">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4178655.stm US voters 'endorsed Iraq policy']''. January 16th, 2005. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> (and even enjoyed) seeing Iraq being bombed.<ref name="Bibby2000">Michael Bibby (2000). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zzeBgB2dPx0C&pg=PA221&dq=how+many+bombs+were+dropped+on+iraq+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Yv2i-jRAhWJIsAKHe1iBAUQ6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=how%20many%20bombs%20were%20dropped%20on%20iraq%20war&f=false The Vietnam War and Postmodernity]''. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 220–221. ISBN 1-55849-238-0.</ref> In the 2004 presidential election, two years into the war— and despite it<ref name="Bonn2010">Scott A. Bonn (17 June 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QN1-LwAJYF4C&pg=PA127&dq=bush+reelected+despite+iraq+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHv6_chejRAhUrBcAKHWl0CTQQ6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q=bush%20reelected%20despite%20iraq%20war&f=false Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq]''. Rutgers University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8135-4996-5.</ref>—the US electorate re-elected George W. Bush back to power.<ref name="bushelectionreaction">''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3983079.stm Bush victory: Global reaction]''. November 5th, 2004. BBC News. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Over 62 million Americans voted him into office (with his opponent, John Kerry, only getting 59 million votes).<ref name="TrentFriedenberg2011">Judith S. Trent; Robert V. Friedenberg; Robert E. Denton (Jr.) (16 August 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z9XencqsS9gC&pg=PA319&dq=62+million+bush+2004&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw1dCShOjRAhWmJMAKHfamAukQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=62%20million%20bush%202004&f=false Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices]''. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4422-0671-7.</ref> In the previous election, Bush only received—and won with—50.5 million votes.<ref name="TrentFriedenberg2011"/> Even though it had been clear that Bush lied about his reasons for unleashing ''"shock and awe"'' onto the Iraqi people (which consisted of numerous—93% unguided, 70% missing-their-target-and-murdering-civilians<ref name="Bonn2010"/>—air raid bombings of cities filled with millions of Muslims), an extra 12 million Americans still voted for him.<ref group="n.">However, some authors however claim that the ''"number didn't add up"'', and imply that the elections were rigged.
#Richard Charnin (25 March 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vThxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT216&dq=bush+62+million+votes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJtI30gujRAhVPOMAKHToDDsQQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=bush%2062%20million%20votes&f=false Proving Election Fraud: Phantom Voters, Uncounted Votes, and the National Exit Poll]''. AuthorHouse. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-4520-0666-6.
#Michael Parenti (10 March 2010). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6RI8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&dq=bush+62+million+votes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJtI30gujRAhVPOMAKHToDDsQQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=bush%2062%20million%20votes&f=false Democracy for the Few]''. Cengage Learning. p. 192. ISBN 1-111-79293-3.</ref> In 2000, Bush only had an approval rating of some 50%, but after the 9/11 incident, it skyrocketed to 95%.<ref name="gallup">''[http://www.gallup.com/poll/116500/presidential-approval-ratings-george-bush.aspx Presidential Approval Ratings -- George W. Bush]''. Gallup. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> It decreased to 58% just before the Iraq War broke out<ref name="gallup"/>—but immediately rocketed to 71%<ref name="gallup"/> after he declared war on Muslims and Islam.<ref name="Michael B. Kelley (May 11th, 2012).">Michael B. Kelley (May 11th, 2012). ''[http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-course-taught-that-islam-is-the-true-enemy-2012-5?IR=T This Controversial Pentagon Course Taught That Islam Is America's True Enemy]''. Business Insider. Retrieved Janauary 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="waronislamcourse">Associated Press in Washington (May 11th, 2012). ''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/11/us-military-course-islam-enemy US military course taught officers 'Islam is the enemy']''. The Guardian. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref><ref name="Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman (May 10th, 2012).">Noah Shachtman, Spencer Ackerman (May 10th, 2012). ''[https://www.wired.com/2012/05/total-war-islam/?pid=1197 U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam]''. Wired. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> Bush was a disaster overall, who brought in the 2008 global recession,<ref group="n.">''"Nonetheless, the bulk of the blame for the crisis must be assigned to the Bush administration’s fiscal policy and the Greenspan Fed’s monetary policy. Why? Quite simply: fear and greed. The economic and speculative boom launched by the fiscal and monetary policies of the early 2000s raised the returns to greed—that is, the incentive to take on additional risk—to extraordinary levels. No matter how fear-inspiring the regulation and supervision was—and it was not—it would have been overwhelmed by dangerously high levels of greed."''
#Richard S. Grossman (October 14th, 2013). ''[http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/greed_destroyed_us_all_george_w_bush_and_the_real_story_of_the_great_recession/ Greed destroyed us all: George W. Bush and the real story of the Great Recession]''. Salon. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> re-implemented barbaric medieval torture techniques from the Spanish Inquisition (1478—1834),<ref name="ReuterYoo2011">Dean Reuter; John Yoo (23 August 2011). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hMTARm70kzEC&pg=PT91&dq=waterboarding+spanish+inquisition&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPk-iXhejRAhVmBMAKHXGEDBcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=waterboarding%20spanish%20inquisition&f=false Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security]''. Encounter Books. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-59403-563-0.</ref><ref name="Haas2009">Michael Haas (2009). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-DR-1TjtUcEC&pg=PA67&dq=bush+waterboarding&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUjPXFk-jRAhUqBsAKHSwXCjYQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=bush%20waterboarding&f=false George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes]''. ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-313-36499-0.</ref> created numerous secret concentration camps (called "black sites"),<ref name="Gonerko-Frej2017">Anna Gonerko-Frej (6 January 2017). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bjTZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA262&dq=cia+black+sites+concentration+camps&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijjubKmejRAhWjF8AKHYrYC3cQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=cia%20black%20sites%20concentration%20camps&f=false Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11: Volume 2 Perspectives in Language]''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-4438-6261-5.</ref> ballooned his countries debt,<ref group="n.">US Debt rose from $5.66 trillion dollars to $10.7 trillion dollars. The Obama presidency increased this amount to $19.57 trillion dollars through doing nothing about the policies that had Bush had implemented. In fact Obama continued Bush's policies, resulting in huge debt growth.
#''[https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+National+Debt+(2000+to+2008) US National Debt (2000 to 2008)]''. Wolfram Alpha. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#''[https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+National+Debt US National Debt]''. Wolfram Alpha. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.
#Robert U. Ayres (30 May 2014). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=98-uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&dq=george+bush+caused+the+2008+recession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii4_PS_-fRAhWsLsAKHdfVDng4FBDoAQguMAQ#v=onepage&q=george%20bush%20caused%20the%202008%20recession&f=false The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?]''. MIT Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-262-02743-4.
#Kenneth Godwin; Scott H. Ainsworth; Erik Godwin (12 September 2012). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ChrXRtPxDwgC&pg=PT85&dq=george+bush+caused+the+2008+recession&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlk5vF_-fRAhWkDMAKHfnDDKU4ChDoAQg6MAU#v=onepage&q=george%20bush%20caused%20the%202008%20recession&f=false Lobbying and Policymaking: The Public Pursuit of Private Interests]''. SAGE. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-4522-8934-2.</ref> and not to mention the obvious fact that he was responsible for letting 9/11 happen in the first place,<ref name="Ball2005">Howard Ball (2005). ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rLU1ryKOsP4C&pg=PR28&dq=9/11+occurred+on+Bush%27s+watch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDu5WagujRAhXlDMAKHYBKB5AQ6AEIRTAG#v=onepage&q=9%2F11%20occurred%20on%20Bush's%20watch&f=false U.S. Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook]''. ABC-CLIO. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-85109-803-3.</ref> as he ignored ''all'' warnings of an imminent incoming plot.<ref name="Cenk Ugyur (June 21st, 2012).">Cenk Ugyur (June 21st, 2012). ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF935kBcKNY CIA Documents Show 9/11 Bin Laden Warnings Ignored]''. The Young Turks. Retrieved January 29th, 2017.</ref> By 2008, Bush scored a pathetic 29% approval rating.<ref name="gallup"/>
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| 00:03||Okay I got it.
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| 00:05||Last conversation Hotel Two-Six.
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| 00:09||Roger Hotel Two-Six [Apache helicopter 1], uh, [this is] Victor Charlie Alpha. Look, do you want your Hotel Two-Two two el-
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| 00:14||I got a black vehicle under target. It's arriving right to the north of the mosque.
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| 00:17||Yeah, I would like that. Over.
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| 00:21||Moving south by the mosque dome. Down that road.
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| 00:27||Okay we got a target fifteen coming at you. It's a guy with a weapon.
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| 00:32||Roger [acknowledged].
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| 00:39||There's a...
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| 00:42||There's about, ah, four or five...
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| 00:44||Bushmaster Six [ground control] copy [i hear you] One-Six.
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| 00:48||...this location and there's more that keep walking by and one of them has a weapon.
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| 00:52||Roger received target fifteen.
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| 00:55||K.
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| 00:57||See all those people standing down there.
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| 01:06||Stay firm. And open the courtyard.
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| 01:09||Yeah roger. I just estimate there's probably about twenty of them.
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| 01:13||There's one, yeah.
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| 01:15||Oh yeah.
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| 01:18||I don't know if that's a...
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| 01:19||Hey Bushmaster element [ground forces control], copy on the one-six.
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| 01:21||Thats a weapon.
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| 01:22||Yeah.
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| 01:23||Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight [second Apache helicopter].
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| 01:29||Copy on the one-six, Bushmaster Six-Romeo. Roger.
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| 01:32||Fucking prick.
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| 01:33||Hotel Two-Six this is Crazy Horse One-Eight [communication between chopper 1 and chopper 2]. Have individuals with weapons.
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| 01:41||Yup. He's got a weapon too.
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| 01:43||Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight. Have five to six individuals with AK47s [automatic rifles]. Request permission to engage [shoot].
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| 01:51||Roger that. Uh, we have no personnel east of our position. So, uh, you are free to engage. Over.
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| 02:00||All right, we'll be engaging.
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| 02:02||Roger, go ahead.
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| 02:03||I'm gonna... I cant get 'em now because they're behind that building.
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| 02:09||Um, hey Bushmaster element...
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| 02:10||He's got an RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenade]?
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| 02:11||All right, we got a guy with an RPG.
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| 02:13||I'm gonna fire.
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| 02:14||Okay.
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| 02:15||No hold on. Lets come around. Behind buildings right now from our point of view. ... Okay, we're gonna come around.
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| 02:19||Hotel Two-Six; have eyes on individual with RPG. Getting ready to fire. We won't...
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| 02:23||Yeah, we had a guy shoot---and now he's behind the building.
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| 02:26||God damn it.
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| 02:28||Uh, negative, he was, uh, right in front of the Brad [Bradley Fighting Vehicle; an tracked Armored Personal Carrier that looks like a tank]. Uh, 'bout, there, one o'clock. [direction/orientation]
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| 02:34||Haven't seen anything since then.
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| 02:36||Just fuckin', once you get on 'em just open 'em up.
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| 02:38||All right.
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| 02:40||I see your element, uh, got about four Humvees [Armored cars], uh, out along...
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| 02:43||You're clear.
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| 02:44||All right, firing.
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| 02:47||Let me know when you've got them.
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| 02:49||Lets shoot.
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| 02:50||Light 'em all up.
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| 02:52||Come on, fire!
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| 02:57||Keep shoot, keep shoot. [keep shooting]
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| 02:59||keep shoot.
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| 03:02||keep shoot.
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| 03:05||Hotel.. Bushmaster Two-Six, Bushmaster Two-Six, we need to move, time now!
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| 03:10||All right, we just engaged all eight individuals.
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| 03:12||Yeah, we see two birds [helicopters] and we're still fire [not firing].
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| 03:14||Roger.
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| 03:15||I got 'em.
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| 03:16||Two-six, this is Two-Six, we're mobile.
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| 03:19||Oops, I'm sorry what was going on?
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| 03:20||God damn it, Kyle.
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| 03:23||All right, hahaha, I hit [shot] 'em...
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| 03:28||Uh, you're clear.
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| 03:30||All right, I'm just trying to find targets again.
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| 03:38||Bushmaster Six, this is Bushmaster Two-Six.
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| 03:40||Got a bunch of bodies layin' there.
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| 03:42||All right, we got about, uh, eight individuals.
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| 03:46||Yeah, we got one guy crawling around down there, but, uh, you know, we got, definitely got something.
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| 03:51||We're shooting some more.
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| 03:52||Roger.
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| 03:56||Hey, you shoot, I'll talk.
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| 03:57||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:01||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six. Over.
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| 04:03||Roger. Currently engaging [fighting/shooting at] approximately eight individuals, uh KIA [Killed In Action], uh RPGs, and AK-47s.
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| 04:12||Hotel Two-Six, you need to move to that location once Crazyhorse is done and get pictures. Over.
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| 04:20||Six beacon gaia.
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| 04:24||Sergeant Twenty is the location.
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| 04:28||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:31||Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards.
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| 04:36||Nice.
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| 04:37||Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 04:44||Nice.
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| 04:47||Good shoot.
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| 04:48||Thank you.
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| 04:53||Hotel Two-Six.
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| 04:55||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 05:03||Crazyhorse One-Eight; Bushmaster Seven. Go ahead.
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| 05:06||Bushmaster Seven; Crazyhorse One-Eight. Uh, location of bodies, Mike Bravo five-four-five-eight eight-six-one-seven [military map grid reference].
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| 05:15||Hey, good on the uh...
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| 05:17||Five-four-five-eight eight-six-one-seven [map grid reference]. Over.
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| 05:21||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight, that's a good copy. They're on a street in front of an open, uh, courtyard with a bunch of blue uh trucks, bunch of vehicles in the courtyard.
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| 05:30||There's one guy moving down there but he's uh, he's wounded.
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| 05:35||All right, we'll let 'em know so they can hurry up and get over here.
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| 05:40||One-Eight, we also have one individual, uh, appears to be wounded trying to crawl away.
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| 05:49||Roger, we're gonna move down there.
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| 05:51||Roger, we'll cease fire.
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| 05:54||Yeah, we won't shoot anymore.
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| 06:01||He's getting up.
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| 06:02||Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?
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| 06:04||No, I haven't seen one yet.
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| 06:07||I see you guys got that guy crawling right now on that curb.
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| 06:08||Yeah, I got him. I put two rounds [30mm cannon shells] near him, and you guys were shooting over there too, so uh we'll see.
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| 06:14||Yeah, roger that.
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| 06:16||Bushmaster Thirty-Six Element; this is uh Hotel Two-Seven over.
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| 06:21||Hotel Two-Seven; Bushmaster Seven go ahead.
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| 06:24||Roger I'm just trying to make sure you guys have my turf [area], over.
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| 06:31||Roger we got your turf.
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| 06:33||Come on, buddy.
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| 06:38||All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.
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| 06:44||Crazyhorse this is Bushmaster Five, Bushmaster Four break. We are right below you right time now can you walk us onto that location over.
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| 06:54||This is Two-Six roger. I'll pop flares [drop flares]. We also have one individual moving. We're looking for weapons. If we see a weapon, we're gonna engage.
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| 07:07||Yeah Bushmaster, we have a van that's approaching and picking up the bodies.
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| 07:14||Where's that van at?
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| 07:15||Right down there by the bodies.
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| 07:16||Okay, yeah.
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| 07:18||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
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| 07:25||Let me engage.
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| 07:28||Can I shoot?
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| 07:31||Roger. Break. Uh Crazyhorse One-Eight request permission to uh engage.
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| 07:36||Picking up the wounded?
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| 07:38||Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage.
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| 07:41||Come on, let us shoot!
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| 07:44||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 07:49||They're taking him.
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| 07:51||Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 07:56||This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead.
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| 07:59||Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck [van] picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
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| 08:02||Fuck.
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| 08:06||This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage.
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| 08:12||One-Eight, engage.
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| 08:12||Clear.
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| 08:13||Come on!
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| 08:17||Clear.
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| 08:20||Clear.
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| 08:21||We're engaging.
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| 08:26||Coming around. Clear.
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| 08:27||Roger. Trying to uh...
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| 08:32||Clear.
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| 08:35||I hear 'em co.. I lost 'em in the dust.
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| 08:36||I got 'em.
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| 08:41||I'm firing.
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| 08:42||This is Bushmaster Forty got any BDA [Battle Damage Assessment] on that truck. Over.
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| 08:44||You're clear.
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| 08:47||This is ah Crazyhorse. Stand by.
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| 08:47||I can't shoot for some reason.
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| 08:49||Go ahead.
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| 08:50||I think the van's disabled.
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| 08:53||Go ahead and shoot it.
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| 08:54||I got an azimuth limit for some reason [gunner moved gunsight too far]
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| 09:00||Go left.
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| 09:03||Clear left.
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| 09:15||All right, Bushmaster Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 09:20||A vehicle appears to be disabled.
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| 09:22||There were approximately four to five individuals in vehicle moving bodies.
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| 09:28||Your lead Bradley should take the next right.
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| 09:31||That's cruising east down the road.
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| 09:34||No more shooting.
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| 09:38||Crazyhorse; this is Bushmaster Four. We're moving a dismounted element [troops] straight south through the Bradleys [tanks].
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| 09:44||I have your Elem- uh, Bradley element turning south down the road where the engagements were.
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| 09:53||Last call on station's uh Bradley element say again.
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| 09:56||Roger this is Crazyhorse.
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| 09:58||Your lead Bradley just turned south down the road where all the engagements [shooting] happened.
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| 10:03||Should have a van in the middle of the road with about twelve to fifteen bodies.
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| 10:11||Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield!
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| 10:14||Ha ha!
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| 10:16||All right. There were uh approximately four to five individuals in that truck, so I'm counting about twelve to fifteen.
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| 10:24||I would say that's a fairly accurate assessment so far.
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| 10:27||Roger that.
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| 10:29||I want to just be advised Six, Bushmaster Six are getting mounted up right now.
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| 10:35||Okay, roger. Hey, we can't flex down that road towards that, uh, where Crazyhorse engaged.
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| 10:43||So, uh, I don't know if you want us to do so or stay put. Over.
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| 10:46||Why can't they go down there?
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| 10:56||I think we whacked [killed] 'em all.
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| 10:58||That's right, good.
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| 10:59||This is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 11:03||Hey you got my dismounted element [troops] right there over to your left.
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| 11:06||Roger, I see 'em.
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| 11:11||Hey yeah, roger, be advised, there were some guys popping out with AKs behind that dirt pile break.
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| 11:19||We also took some RPGs off, uh, earlier, so just uh make sure your men keep your eyes open.
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| 11:26||Roger.
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| 11:27||And, uh, Bushmaster ahead are, uh, Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 11:33||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 11:35||Yeah Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 11:37||Uh, location I have about twelve to fifteen dead bodies.
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| 11:42||Uh, where else are we taking fire from?
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| 11:48||Currently we're not being engaged, ah, but just south of that location. Break.
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| 11:55||You should see dismounted elements with Humvees [armored cars] moving to the east, over.
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| 12:01||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight; we have elements in sight.
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| 12:05||Bushmaster Three-Six.
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| 12:07||I'm gonna get down a little lower.
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| 12:09||All right.
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| 12:10||I'm gonna come down a little lower and take a quick gander.
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| 12:13||Roger that.
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| 12:14||Six; this is four. We're headed to the area where Crazyhorse engaged.
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| 12:26||Bushmaster Six; this is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 12:28||Request to go to the south to our original BP so if you flushed them to the south we will be there to uh intercept over.
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| 12:39||Hey this is Bushmaster Seven; we're coming up on B... on the ass end of the Brads [tanks].
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| 12:54||Hey uh, Bushmaster Element; this is Copperhead One-Six break.
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| 13:00||We're moving in the vicinity of the engagement area and looks like we've got some slight movement from ah, the ah van that was engaged.
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| 13:06||Looks like a kid. Over.
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| 13:11||This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Uh, we're about a hundred meters behind you.
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| 13:16||Got that big pile, to the right?
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| 13:18||Roger, you gonna pull in here? Do you want me to push stuff so you can, uh, get clear of it?
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| 13:21||Right on the corner?
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| 13:22||What's that?
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| 13:23||Got that big pile of bodies to the right, on the corner?
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| 13:24||Yeah, right here.
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| 13:25||We got a dismounted infantry and vehicles, over.
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| 13:30||Again, roger.
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| 13:31||And clear.
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| 13:48||There's the Bradley right there.
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| 13:51||Got 'em.
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| 14:00||Hotel two-six; are you uh at this grid over?
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| 14:05||Yeah I wanted to get you around so didn't you just get that one dude to scare them all away. It worked out pretty good.
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| 14:11||I didn't want those fuckers to run away and scatter.
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| 14:12||Yeah.
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| 14:15||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six. Roger, we linked up with our two element they are all mounted up in our trucks break.
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| 14:23||We moved south so that we could ah possibly intercept personnel being flushed south. So we are vicinity Fifth Street.
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| 14:30||And ah please line Gadins. Over.
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| 14:37||Bring the trucks in, cordon this area off.
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| 14:39||Can we move the Bradley forward so we can bring trucks in and cordon off this area.
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| 14:44||If the Bradleys could take the south cordon, that could help out a lot.
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| 14:53||Bushmaster or element. Which Element called in Crazyhorse to engage the eight-elem- eight-men team on top of a roof.
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| 15:02||Bushmaster Six; this is Hotel Two-Six. Uh, I believe that was me.
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| 15:07||They uh had AK-47s and were to our east, so, where we were taking small arms fire. Over.
|-
| 15:20||Hotel Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 15:26||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six.
|-
| 15:28||Yeah Two-Six. One-Eight I just also wanted to make sure you knew that we had a guy with an RPG cropping round the corner getting ready to fire on your location.
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| 15:36||That's why we ah, requested permission to engage.
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| 15:40||Ok, roger that. Tango mike.
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| 15:46||Hotel Two-Six; do you understand me, over?
|-
| 15:51||I did not copy last, uh, you got stepped on. Say again please?
|-
| 16:00||They cordoned off the building that the helicopters killed the personnel on.
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| 16:04||Don't go anywhere else we need to cordon off that building so we can get on top of the roof and SSC the building. Over.
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| 16:13||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 16:16||This is Hotel Two-Six.
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| 16:19||Hey, whoever was talking about rooftops, know that all the personnel we engaged were ground level. I say again ground level.
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| 16:27||Roger I copy ground level. Over.
|-
| 16:30||One-Eight roger.
|-
| 16:33||Can I get a grid to that one more time please?
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| 16:36||Target twenty.
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| 16:36||Roger.
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| 16:40||You want me to take over talking to them?
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| 16:42||S'alright.
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| 16:46||Seven-Six Romeo Over.
|-
| 16:49||Roger, I've got uh eleven Iraqi KIAs [Killed In Action]. One small child wounded. Over.
|-
| 16:57||Roger. Ah damn. Oh well.
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| 17:04||Roger, we need, we need a uh to evac [evacuate] this child. Ah, she's got a uh, she's got a wound to the belly.
|-
| 17:10||I can't do anything here. She needs to get evaced. Over.
|-
| 17:18||Bushmaster Seven, Bushmaster Seven; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo.
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| 17:20||We need your location over.
|-
| 17:25||Roger, we're at the location where Crazyhorse engaged the RPG fire break.
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| 17:37||Grid five-four-five-eight.
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| 17:46||Well it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.
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| 17:48||That's right.
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| 17:56||Got uh, eleven.
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| 18:01||Yeah uh, roger. We're monitoring [observing].
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| 18:02||Sorry.
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| 18:04||No problem.
|-
| 18:07||Correction eight-six-one-six.
|-
| 18:16||Looking for more individuals-south.
|-
| 18:18||Bushmaster Six-Bushmaster Seven.
|-
| 18:29||I think they just drove over a body.
|-
| 18:31||Hey hey!
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| 18:32||Yeah!
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| 18:37||Maybe it was just a visual illusion, but it looked like it.
|-
| 18:41||Well, they're dead, so.
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| 18:44||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 18:56||Six; this is Four. I got one individual looks like he's got an RPG round laying underneath him. Break.
|-
| 19:05||Probably like to get...
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| 19:10||Look at that.
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| 19:12||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 19:29||Bushmaster Six; Romeo Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 19:44||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 19:56||Hotel Two-Six; Bushmaster Seven colocated with Six.
|-
| 20:08||Hotel Two-Six; Bushmaster Seven.
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| 20:10||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 20:14||Roger, we got a little girl who needs to be evaced. What's your location over?
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| 20:22||On route Gadins, I am all the way to the south. So I am Gadins and Fifth Street.
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| 20:28||I say again Gadins and Fifth Street, over.
|-
| 20:40||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six. Do you want us to push to your location?
|-
| 20:55||Hey, uh, I need to get the Brads to drop rads I got a wounded little girl we need to take her off the maya.
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| 21:04||Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six. Do you want us to move to your location over?
|-
| 21:30||Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
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| 21:34||Hotel Two-Six; this is Bushmaster Seven. Roger, come to our location.
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| 21:39||Okay, roger, we're coming up north on Gadins and then we will push east to your location.
|-
| 22:06||Bushmaster elements be advised we have friendlies coming from the south to your location. Over.
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| 22:13||All right, got 'em moving up from the south.
|-
| 22:35||Bushmaster elements be advised we are coming up from the east.
|-
| 23:49||Hey One-Two; follow me over. I'm going to try and get out of here as quickly as possible.
|-
| 24:10||You guys all right back there?
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| 24:13||Yeah, we're with you.
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| 24:35||Lotta guys down there.
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| 24:37||Oh yeah.
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| 24:37||Came out of the woodwork.
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| 24:38||This is Operation, ah, Operation Secure.
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|-
| 25:16||Yeah we have fifty rounds left.
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| 25:17||Yep.
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| 25:19||Two-Six; Six Romeo over.
|-
| 25:21||Two-Six; Romeo over.
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| 25:23||Hey roger, what's your current location over?
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| 25:47||Six; speak it's Romeo.
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| 25:50||Three-Six Romeo; Six Romeo over.
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| 25:52||Roger, at the six once it's back on this guy.
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| 25:56||Lost him.
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| 26:00||What's he got for us?
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| 26:01||Stand by.
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| 26:06||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:21||Hey, did you got action on that target yet over?
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| 26:25||Speak to Charlie roger.
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| 26:32||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:55||Bushmaster Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 26:59||Roger, you have traffic over.
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| 27:02||Roger. Uh, just wondering if you had anything else you wanted us to drive on?
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| 27:08||Yeah roger keep on, ah, for the time being over.
|-
| 27:11||Six calls Six Romeo. Can you tell battalion that two civilian children casualties are coming back to SMI in the Bradley over.
|-
| 27:26||Six calls Six Romeo.
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| 27:29||Bushmaster Six Copper White Six.
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| 27:32||Copperhead White Six; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo over.
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| 27:36||Roger, that's a negative on the evac of the two, ah, civilian, ah, kids to, ah, rusty they're going to have the IPs [Iraqi Police] link up. They can put us over here. Break. IPs will take them up to a local hospital over.
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| 27:50||Copy over.
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| 27:54||One six oh.
|-
| 28:08||... they're all going to.
|-
| 28:10||Say again?
|-
| 28:12||Where all those dismounts [infantry] are going to?
|-
| 28:18||Going into this hous-. Sorry
|-
| 29:29||Three Six, Three Six; Bushmaster Six Romeo over.
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| 29:37||Six Romeo, Six Romeo.
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| 29:39||Roger, Bushmaster Seven wants an up on all personnel in your battalion over.
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| 29:44||Roger.
|-
| 30:08||...friendlies [US troops] on the roof.
|-
| 30:10||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Bushmaster Four over.
|-
| 30:12||Bushmaster Four; this is Crazyhorse One-Eight.
|-
| 30:15||Roger, I can ah hear small arms fire from your engagement area at two zero zero zero ah about three hundred meters from that objective over.
|-
| 30:27||Crazyhorse; from what I understand small arms fire at two zero zero zero degrees about two hundred meters.
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| 30:39||Just to the southwest.
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| 30:41||Yup.
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| 30:49||Right about where we engaged.
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| 30:51||Yeah, One of them with that RPG or whatever.
|-
| 30:55||He's got a weapon. Got an RK--AK 47.
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| 30:58||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
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| 31:02||Gonna lose him.
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| 31:03||Crazyhorse One-Eight this is Hotel Two-Six over.
|-
| 31:08||Roger, have another individual with a weapon.
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| 31:10||Dammit, they're in the same building.
|-
| 31:12||Hey roger that, just make sure that ah, you're firing from west to east over.
|-
| 31:16||Just went in the building.
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| 31:18||Crazyhorse Three and Four will be on their way.
|-
| 31:21||The individual walked into the building previously past grid [map reference]. So there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons.
|-
| 31:30||We can put a missile in it.
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| 31:31||If you'd like, ah, Crazyhorse One-Eight could put a missile in that building.
|-
| 31:46||It's a triangle building. Appears to be ah, abandoned.
|-
| 31:51||Yeah, looks like it's under construction, abandoned.
|-
| 31:52||Appears to be abandoned, under construction.
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| 31:56||Uh, like I said, six individuals walked in there from our previous engagement.
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| 32:01||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Bushmaster Six Romeo. If you've PIDed [Positively IDentified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building over.
|-
| 32:08||Crazyhorse One-Eight; will be coming up north to south engaging with Hellfire [missiles].
|-
| 32:13||All right, I'm going to do manual.
|-
| 32:17||All right, we've been cleared to engage with...
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| 32:18||This is Bushmaster Six Romeo. Crazyhorse One Eight is going to be engaging north to south with Hellfire missiles over.
|-
| 32:24||This is Hotel Two-Six. Roger.
|-
| 32:26||All right, you ready?
|-
| 32:27||No, I'm trying to get over to the November [target]. Trying to find the fucking...
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| 32:33||This is Bushmaster Six. Has that RPG round been extended already or is it still live, over.
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| 32:38||Looks live to me.
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| 32:40||Let me know when you're going to fire.
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| 32:44||All right, I'm fucking having a brain fart. Where's the man [manual] advancement?
|-
| 32:48||You got one on the clutch on the bottom left on your left door.
|-
| 32:54||Roger let me stand by.
|-
| 32:57||Got it?
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| 32:59||No.
|-
| 33:03||All right.
|-
| 33:09||Let me just put a kilo [Hellfire missile] in there.
|-
| 33:12||Ok.
|-
| 33:15||Got it?
|-
| 33:21||Put a kilo in?
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| 33:22||All right, let me get back.
|-
| 33:26||I'm gonna come around, get some more distance.
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| 33:27||Roger that, you're clear.
|-
| 33:33||Got more individuals in there.
|-
| 33:36||You wanna hit from north to south or you wanna go from west to east? I don't wanna fire with the friendlies [US forces] right there, you know.
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| 33:41||Yeah, go north to south.
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| 33:53||Right, come around, right.
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| 33:56||I'm just gonna put one or two in, if they want any more.
|-
| 34:09||Right.
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| 34:12||Found the missile.
|-
| 34:15||Roger, I'll get you in this straight.
|-
| 34:16||You're clear.
|-
| 34:17||I'm firing.
|-
| 34:26||Target hit.
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| 34:28||It was a missile.
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| 34:29||Left.
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| 34:32||You're clear. I'm above you.
|-
| 34:36||Crazyhorse One-Eight; was that explosion you engaging over?
|-
| 34:38||Crazyhorse One Eight, roger. Engaging building with one hellfire.
|-
| 34:46||Let's come around and we'll clear the smoke. We'll fire one more.
|-
| 34:50||Hey uh, we're going to wait for the smoke to clear.
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| 34:52||Yes Crazyhorse One Eight now. We're going to put one more missile into the building.
|-
| 34:57||Yeah, did it ah, go in the building? I see the wall knocked out of the way.
|-
| 34:59||Yeah, it went in.
|-
| 35:01||Bushmaster Six Romeo; this is Hotel Two-Six. Yeah roger, that was Crazyhorse engaging with one Hellfire over.
|-
| 35:10||Yeah roger, I got a November [target] if you want.
|-
| 35:12||Fire away.
|-
| 35:13||You want us to fire?
|-
| 35:18||You ready?
|-
| 35:19||Yep.
|-
| 35:20||Bushmaster Six Romeo. They are going to engage ah, with one more Hellfire in that building.
|-
| 35:24||Uh shit, why I do I have AP flashing on there? [warning on helicopter display]
|-
| 35:47||We're not even going to watch this fucking shit?
|-
| 35:49||Till next one. It won't come around, I need a little more distance.
|-
| 35:53||Still want me to shoot?
|-
| 35:57||You guys, following hot.
|-
| 35:59||Roger.
|-
| 36:13||You are clear.
|-
| 36:14||Roger.
|-
| 36:16||You going to bring up the missile?
|-
| 36:18||Roger.
|-
| 36:19||And firing.
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| 36:20||Come down? There you go.
|-
| 36:23||Fire.
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| 36:24||All right.
|-
| 36:28||I've got, ah BACKSCATTER [warning on helicopter display].
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| 36:30||All right, come around.
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| 36:32||Roger.
|-
| 36:34||Coming around left, backscatter.
|-
| 36:49||Firing.
|-
| 36:53||There it goes! Look at that bitch go!
|-
| 36:56||Patoosh!
|-
| 37:03||Ah, sweet.
|-
| 37:07||Need a little more room.
|-
| 37:09||Nice missile.
|-
| 37:11||Does it look good?
|-
| 37:12||Sweet!
|-
| 37:16||Uh, you ready?
|-
| 37:18||Roger.
|-
| 37:30||There's a lot of dust.
|-
| 37:36||Crazyhorse One-Eight; this is Hotel Two-Six. Was there a BDA [Battle Damage Assessment]?
|-
| 37:40||This is Crazyhorse One-Eight. Stand by, engaging with another Hellfire.
|-
| 37:43||All right.
|-
| 37:45||You're clear.
|-
| 37:47||Lemme know when I'm clear.
|-
| 37:50||Roger that.
|-
| 37:59||He wasn't.
|-
| 38:02||Hotel Two-Six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
|-
| 38:07||Crazyhorse One-Eight.
|-
| 38:09||Roger, building destroyed. Engaged with three hellfire missiles.
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 "Collateral Murder" (VIDEO)]