Film: "Green Zone" 2010, Matt Damon, Intense!

[amicus]

...so intense that for the entire two hour production you are spellbound to the point of not wanting to visit even the refrigerator for an adult beverage!

From a 2006 book, this HBO Special is extremely politically biased, anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-establishment and full of factual inaccuracies, the typical Hollywood 'take', just the kind of overall aura our 'usual suspects' adore; but still I recommend it with but one caveat: Saddam Hussein did have and use chemical weapons on his own people, those would be called Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD's, in the event you have forgotten.

As a writer and one who shys away from screen writing, I am in awe of the fast paced, heavily graphic and illustrated story line and how it is handled. In my novel length efforts, I try to give the reader a place to pause...put the book down for a while and let the characters and plot sort of 'stew' into the mind and tempt one back to the story. This is non-stop action and chock full of plot complexities and character developments...it truly challenges one at first viewing to keep it all in mind.



http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2418487/

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Writer
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(book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone")

Trivia:
Former Baghdad (Iraq) Bureau Chief of the Washington Post.

Company Credits
Production Co:
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2006-2008 Hardball with Chris Matthews (TV series)

2006 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV series)

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Related note: Keith Oberman, MSNBC left wing shill, abruptly quit his gig, his last show was last Friday night....curious...no previous announcement....

Amicus

 

[sr71plt]

Saddam Hussein did have and use chemical weapons on his own people, those would be called Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD's, in the event you have forgotten.

I don't know of anyone who disputes Saddam Hussein had them (at one time). You don't understand much about the issue, though, which is that the administration purposely lied that they still existed and were a threat to U.S. interests and therefore we just had to invade (ooops--"defend ourselves at distance") or we'd all die next Tuesday before 2 pm.

We knew he had them, because we sold most of them to him ourselves. But he used most of them domestically (as you note above yourself) and used them against Iran, sold some of them, and let the rest deteriorate.

If they existed as a threat to the United States, where are they? We've had plenty of time to find them.

The truth is that the Bush administration started with the intention to attack and then backed itself into an intentional lie as justification. This is not a Republican thing verses a Democratic thing. Johnson did it with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and presidential administrations ad nauseum have done similarly in the past, without regard to party or left/right leaning. (I know of a couple from the Kennedy and Carter administrations that haven't seemed to hit the pubic purview yet. The only recent president I've known not to do it was Clinton, and he was too lazy to get into such shennanagins).

Where I think the Bush administration was stupid was in not salting such weapons somewhere in Iraq after the invasion (ooops, the defense at distance) and then conveniently finding them with Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour in tow.

The bottom line is that you are completely out of your depth in discussing U.S. foreign policy.

 

[amicus]

If you were not also so petulantly female in your bitchiness, you might have something worthwhile to offer.

In terms of foreign policy, it is likely I have interviewed more core officials than you ever heard of, and been lied to as many times as I have been given a kernel of truth.

Classified particulars on the Jimmy Doolittle raid on Japan in 1942 are just now being made public. The clear assumption is that you are talking out your ass with no knowledge of events surrounding the Iraq war; your continued expressed hatred of everything American colors your every statement and puts you in the unsavory category of partisan prosyletizer, not a good place to be.

Like most fundamentalist believers, you probably don't even know you are doing, it, like lying about being a pilot. You are untrustworthy in any and everything you say on this forum and probably in life in general because that is who you are.

Aside from all that, the intent of this Post was and is to draw attention to a fine film and to remind viewers of the arranged political content of such.

Amicus

 

[sr71plt]

I'll just take it as an amusement that you are as off base about what I know about Iraq and how I know it as you are about just about everything else.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Notice that SR offers substantive argument based on inside knowledge and Ami calls him a petulant, bitchy, woman.

Feminism 101.

 

[PoppingTom]

...so intense that for the entire two hour production you are spellbound to the point of not wanting to visit even the refrigerator for an adult beverage!

From a 2006 book, this HBO Special is extremely politically biased, anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-establishment and full of factual inaccuracies, the typical Hollywood 'take', just the kind of overall aura our 'usual suspects' adore;

...I think I have to watch that movie now !

 

[CharleyH]

...so intense that for the entire two hour production you are spellbound to the point of not wanting to visit even the refrigerator for an adult beverage!

From a 2006 book, this HBO Special is extremely politically biased, anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-US, anti-establishment and full of factual inaccuracies, the typical Hollywood 'take', just the kind of overall aura our 'usual suspects' adore; but still I recommend it with but one caveat: Saddam Hussein did have and use chemical weapons on his own people, those would be called Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD's, in the event you have forgotten.

As a writer and one who shys away from screen writing, I am in awe of the fast paced, heavily graphic and illustrated story line and how it is handled. In my novel length efforts, I try to give the reader a place to pause...put the book down for a while and let the characters and plot sort of 'stew' into the mind and tempt one back to the story. This is non-stop action and chock full of plot complexities and character developments...it truly challenges one at first viewing to keep it all in mind.



http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2418487/



~~~

Related note: Keith Oberman, MSNBC left wing shill, abruptly quit his gig, his last show was last Friday night....curious...no previous announcement....

Amicus

Green Zone? I don't recall the film. HERE AFTER? Now we're talkin'

 

[1sickbastard]

The only recent president I've known not to do it was Clinton, and he was too lazy to get into such shennanagins.

Except Bosnia and Somalia. The lucky SOB didn't have much in the way of real foreign threats either.

Never believe the hype about any war. To be sure, a gov't will always try to give whatever war some nice, easy to believe, easy to swallow justification (they had WMD, we're making the world safe for democracy, Liebensraum, freeing the workers from their chains, etc & whatever).

Every justification you've ever been told is BULLSHIT. Nation-states fight wars because they perceive those wars to be the best available option to preserve or expand their strategic interests.

 

[amicus]

"Green Zone" just started again on HBO-W at 7pm Pacific, Dish Channel 303...

Packers & Steelers!

ami

 

[Dragonlipz]

Notice that SR offers substantive argument based on inside knowledge and Ami calls him a petulant, bitchy, woman.

Feminism 101.

Well and truly said, SO. Were the AmiCoot able to or had expertise in the 'Art of War'; he would attempt to discuss these matters as one who has (or had) some relevant experience. Without it, he is revealed as a limp, impotent, pathetic wretch. (Did I leave anything out?)

My erstwhile muse: the blonde, buxom, bodacious, banal bikini barista has firsthand (& mouth) experience with these tea-baggers and finds their intellectual bona-fides lacking as well as their libidos - it just goes to show....................

 

[amicus]

Ijnteresting, as the credits role on my second viewing of Green Zone, in the long list of news outlets emailed the wikileak type of correspondence, no FOX news, geez, I wonder why?

Amicus