An Anti-war protester found a very novel way to protest against the war in Iraq. No he didn't run around the White House in the nude, or did he gate crash some press conference where Bush was chatting about nothing. No he found a very novel way, The US army has a
website that it uses as a recruitment tool. So what's on this website? Well you can play at being a soldier, get the feel of being in battle, and yes, get your head blown off as well, but you don't die, your playing in the safety of your living room.
I (
Joseph DeLappe ) enter the game using as my login name, "dead-in-iraq" and proceed to type the names using the game's text messaging system. As is my usual practice when creating such an intervention, I am a neutral visitor as I do not particate in the proscribed mayhem. Rather, I stand in position and type until I am killed. Upon being re-incarnated I continue to type.
As of 5/18/06 , I have input 361 names. I intend to keep doing so until the end of this war. As of 5/18/06 there have been 2,458 American service persons killed in Iraq. (source - http://icasualties.org/oif/)
"America's Army" is the online recruiting game and PR tool of the United States Army.
Images that Joseph took while 'playing' the game:
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You may or may not have noticed if you look on the top right on some of the images, that there is a cheat server for the guys to play, I'm guessing that this one is the 'ignores the Geneva Convention' mode
Other sites of interest:
Actual fatalities :
http://icasualties.org/oif/
America's Army :
http://www.americasarmy.com/
Other site:
GamePolitics.com
Terranova.blogs.com
Livejournal.com(notsuchpatriot)
Rhizome.org
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