I was disappointed to read that Hollywood director Brian De Palma’s latest work is a propaganda piece, highlighting the atrocities that a handful of U.S. soldiers committed in the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah.
It’s ironic that someone like De Palma who is best known for directing ‘Scarface’ and ‘The Untouchables’ would be an anti-war liberal, but definitely not surprising.
At a time when our country and indeed Brian De Palma’s country is at war with radical Islam, it’s just a shame that he chose to do a film about U.S. soldiers raping and murdering an entire family in Iraq. He uses videos and images taken from the across Internet and from some soldiers’ own blogs to paint the U.S. military as a murderous band of thugs.
The film called ‘Redacted‘ will mainly be shown oversees with only limited release in America. I’m sure the radical elements in the Arab world will be overjoyed at the fresh propaganda they can use from the film to boost terrorist recruitment.
I don’t object to telling what happened in Mahmudiyah, not that it would matter if I did since literally thousands of stories have been printed in every national paper and discussed on every news program. Those involved in the incident are doing anywhere from 10 years to life in a Federal prison for there despicable crimes.
What isn’t fair is to give uninformed and frankly stupid people overseas the impression that our military is nothing but a bunch of rapists and murderers.
The reality is that when you put close to 200,000 people somewhere for any length of time, your gonna have a few thugs come out of the woodwork. What that small group of soldiers did was an absolute disgrace and in my opinion they should have been hanged on the battlefield.
The bottom line is that the horrible events that took place that day in Iraq have been told over and over again, and everyone involved met with swift justice. I just wish that those who are fortunate enough to be Americans would use there right to free speech in a more responsible manner.
Whether you like President Bush or not, the United States collectively is at war meaning it’s all of our war and we should be mindful of how the things we say and do are perceived in the Arab world.
I know raping and killing a family most certainly doesn’t play well in the Arab world or any other world for that matter, but American citizens like Brian De Palma needn’t stoke the flames of Islamic extremism that is already sweeping across the Middle East and Europe.
Being critical of your country’s policies and its leaders is as American as it gets, but deliberately trying to sabotage and undermine your own country is not American at all.
Written By Chris Jones
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The Hot Joints
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhat’s wrong with undermining an illegal and immoral war? If there were any justice in this world, Dubya would be in the Hague awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.
If you notice the “Lewis” person’s response it is all about Bush. The left are very narrow minded and don’t see the whole picture. Bush is going to leave office next year, but Islamofacism will still be on going and what will the “Lewis”s of the world be saying when the Islamofacists will still be setting off bombs all around the world. This is the problem with people like Brian De Palma and the Hollywood left and the “Lewis”s in the world. To them it is all about Bush, but to those Islamofacists it is about pushing their agenda and the left is actually helping them push young Muslims to become more radical. I am not even a Republican, but even I can tell that movies like this give credence to Islamic terrorists and are a great terrorist recruiting tool. People who only see “Dubya” as the problem are pretty stupid, because even when he is gone next year the Islamic fascists will be still trying to destroy America AND Western Europe AND India AND Israel AND Russia AND Thailand AND the Philiphines. If they checked the facts Islamic fascists attacked the Cole and U.S. embassies BEFORE Bush was in office during a time when Clinton was in office…oh how soon the left forgets. The left detests Conservatives. I guess they never really looked at Islam, because Islam is as Conservative as you can get, but they are too blinded by their own dislike of “Dubya” to see clearly. Bush is only going to be in office for another year, meanwhile the left and De Palama are assisting and promoting that Islamic facism will continue on years after that.
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