Fire Mission
Anti-war vet Casey Porter's latest mini-doc now online
By Richard Whittaker, 12:00PM, Tue. Jul. 21, 2009
Iraq War veteran and local film maker Casey Porter is is continuing to mine the days of footage he gathered while in Western Asia. His latest short documentary, Fire Mission, is now online, and proves (if it needed proving again) that he's not the only person in the US armed forces wondering why the US is in Iraq, and questioning what is being sold as standard operating procedures.
Now he's out of the military with an honorable discharge in hand, Porter has been freer to really work on these videos without the threat of official censure or censorship. But, as he explained in an email this morning, this one reaches a particular landmark for him: "In all the films I've made, I always wanted to be in one place: The Blue Box [at] the top section of Michael Moore's site." Well, objective achieved.
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