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Would it be advisable to flush the radiator on my car for 5 or 10 minutes and re-fill with new Antifreeze?

Apr 09, 2010 by Your Favorite Cat BINKY! | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

I have it in an Ideal spot to do so

It is a 1985 Jaguar XJ6, and it has sat for about a year.. needs Oil change too

Could the "Old Oil" possibly cause Overheating?

And can i just take the Upper hose

The Radiators - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 2/21/91

The New Orleans Radiators performing Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" acoustic at The Bottom Line, NYC 2/21/91 early show .

The Radiators - No Tragedy (1983)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1983: The Radiators' promo-video for the hit single 'No Tragedy' taken from the 1983 ...

This article from Truthout is one of the most disturbing pieces on the Iraq War that I have read…

On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh.

The US military confirmed the authenticity of the video.

The footage clearly shows an unprovoked slaughter, and is shocking to watch whilst listening to the casual conversation of the soldiers in the background.

As disturbing as the video is, this type of behavior by US soldiers in Iraq is not uncommon.

Truthout has spoken with several soldiers who shared equally horrific stories of the slaughtering of innocent Iraqis by US occupation forces.

“I remember one woman walking by,” said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the US Marines who served three tours in Iraq. He told the audience at the Winter Soldier hearings that took place March 13-16, 2008, in Silver Spring, Maryland, “She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust settled, we realized that the bag was full of groceries. She had been trying to bring us food and we blew her to pieces.”

The hearings provided a platform for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to share the reality of their occupation experiences with the media in the US.

Washburn testified on a panel that discussed the rules of engagement (ROE) in Iraq, and how lax they were, to the point of being virtually nonexistent.

“During the course of my three tours, the rules of engagement changed a lot,” Washburn’s testimony continued, “The higher the threat the more viciously we were permitted and expected to respond. Something else we were encouraged to do, almost with a wink and nudge, was to carry ‘drop weapons’, or by my third tour, ‘drop shovels’. We would carry these weapons or shovels with us because if we accidentally shot a civilian, we could just toss the weapon on the body, and make them look like an insurgent.”

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