Posted on 03/09/2010 6:15:31 PM PST by retrogo
The whole WMD thing in Iraq? Faked, in this leftist fantasia's telling.
Despite being guilty of gross insubordination, lying to his superiors and concealing important evidence from them (a notebook containing the addresses of Saddam's top officers), [Matt Damon's character] is the hero of the film.Wow.Others we're supposed to cheer for include Sunni officers who shoot down helicopters carrying American soldiers sent to assassinate them. Those death squads are acting at the behest of a duplicitous Pentagon intelligence mandarin (Greg Kinnear) who has single-handedly drummed up a fake casus belli.
Before the war, he interviewed a general of Saddam's who told him pointedly that there were no WMDs in Iraq after 1991 but that he'd be willing to work with the Americans after Saddam was deposed. The Kinnear figure then lied to a gullible reporter (Amy Ryan) that he had a rock-solid source, "Magellan," who had given him proof of WMDs in Iraq.
Such is this movie's eagerness to turn reality upside down that, although the Ryan character is obviously based on Judith Miller of The New York Times, the reporter is said to work for the Wall Street Journal. In full-on liberal daydream mode, Damon and his friends can pretend their favorite lefty paper is untainted by flawed reporting.
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It's one thing to make a fantasy film laced with snarky jibes at the United States and its military. It's of another order entirely for an American studio (Universal, a unit of GE) to perpetrate, during an ongoing war, such vicious anti-American lies disguised as cheap entertainment.
"Green Zone" tells US troops that all of their efforts have been based on a deliberate deception. Worse, it blames the insurgency that has killed so many of our fighting men and women on US treachery.
Movies like "In the Valley of Elah," "Rendition" and "Redacted" have shown US forces doing nasty things -- but none went anywhere near as far as this picture in suggesting original sin corrupted the entire Iraq war and that American officials are more blameworthy than the insurgents for the most violent years. "Green Zone" isn't cinema. It's slander. It will go down in history as one of the most egregiously anti-American movies ever released by a major studio.
Matt Damon really needs to have his career taken away.
How was that post in defense of anything? It’s information that’s relevant to this thread. And yes I’m a fan of the cinema.
I can’t even pronounce this guy’s name. Is that racist?
>> Problem is, “W” did fake the WMD thing.
Strange. I thought Bush warned of the imminent danger of Iraq “acquiring” WMD, not necessarily possessing.
The Iraq thing was so convoluted and then turned into some kind of "Bush doctrine" about turning countries into democratic countries. Reagan had it right - we don't go invading countries to try to make them democratic. But we do try to support freedom fighters within their own country and use intelligence wisely to help them win.
All I needed to know was Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon.
No he talked about going in and finding them, but leading up to the actual invasion, he wasn’t talking much about WMD’s at all. Then when we invaded Iraq, it turned into a justification of turning counties into democracies...
May have been RedState, may have been Instapundit.
Cheers!
Really? This year's Best Picture went to The Hurt Locker, an action-packed, nail biting war film where the heroes were courageous American soldiers and the bad guys were barbaric Muslim jihadis. The film was helmed by this year's winner for Best Director, a woman who had the grace to thank the troops repeatedly during her acceptance speech and various interviews.
This film was also a commercial flop. Nobody went to see it. It earned an embarrasing $12.6 in total box office receipts during 16 weeks in the theater. People here complain that Hollywood churns out nothing but leftist, anti-American drivel yet when Hollywood produces something patriotic, a film Americans can feel good about, a film that celebrates the courage and bravery of our fighting men in uniform, --and awards this film their highest honors, Hollywood was thanked by filmgoers staying home and sitting on their wallets.
Expect more Avatars and less Hurt Lockers in the future. If I were a producer, this would be my business plan.
Iraq was not where the terrorists were - there wasn’t much question about that. The question on many conservatives minds was why is he doing this when Osama bin Laden and his jihadists organization(s) were still loose in Afghanistan. Why didn’t we deal full force with KNOWN terrorists in Afghanistan instead of going on this nonsensical venture into Iraq that later tuned into a “doctrine” of invading countries so we can turn them into democracies?
Because it would've made a dandy stepping-off point for going after Iran, if only Rove hadn't been such a P*ssy about defending Bush.
Cheers!
Not so much that specific post, but others, including some on this thread. If you're not defending anything, then I have gotten the wrong impression. No harm, no foul.
And yes I’m a fan of the cinema.
Nothing wrong with that, just wondering.
The libs have him on that one.<<<<
BS!
Bill Clinton: Clear Evidence of Iraqi WMD Program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0f5u_0ytUs
John Kerry saying he found WMD in Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH93UlGHBfk&feature=related
Gore To Bush: You Ignored Saddam’s Terrorist Ties!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h6gehCPvpk&feature=related
WMD Quotes from Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnjcofMFHsA&feature=related
WMD threads...always good troll bait!
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/id/218878
4 part cspan testimony of Tony Blair....WITH ACTUAL FACTS, not propaganda.
Because it wasn't about revenge. It was about suppressing terrorists and their enablers, especially enablers with WMD.
Because the "real terrorist hot bed" is Iran, and we had even less legal justification, and would have had even less support both at home and abroad, for going there.
As for Afghanistan, what more could we have done without invading Pakistan?
Now he can't send/pay his terrorist goons to target Israeli children anymore.
But they still have Iran.
Thanks for the links. Very useful.
LOL, Bin Laden's dead, and we killed so many of his "second in command" that they can hardly make anymore fake videos. We killed all the terrorists there, except for the ones who fled to waziristan.
I think you give him too much credit. To me he appears an ultimate politician: it's all about victory. And, when victory came, he had no vision --- on any dimension, save privatization of social security --- to utilize that victory. Hit righ-hand man is an epitome of the same: Karl Rove can count votes by county but has absolutely no notion of strategy, let alone mission. Whereas for Dems Big Government is a notion, a vision and mission, for Bush and Rove it was a device for buying votes. Bush's utmost complacency on closing the borders stems from the same root: buying (Hispanic) votes.
From the beginning, it was known as "O.I.F.", Operation Iraqi Freedom, not "Operation Find the WMD."
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