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Not Good
I have nothing against anti-war films. However this was just bad in general,bad acting,bad character development, Dis-jointed editing and unrealistic portrayal of journalists and military personnel. I would not recommend this for even the most the avid anti-Iraq war activist. The Iraq war sucked but so did this movie.

REMAINS essential viewing: NO MORE WAR!
Websearch these facts culled from recent news reports. Inability to accept them demonstrates how much your personal paradigms have been recently redacted, as revealed by this near-documentary film. Do not deny the truth, but act on it.

One of every four homeless in America is a vet.

Desertion is a record high; higher than in a generation, five thousand each year. The suicide rate among vets is at an all time high. Often we read the phrase, "Not since Vietnam . . ."

Casualties are at an all time high, and remain undercounted. Body armour keeps people alive without limbs and vision, etc. And we still refuse to count the civilian collateral damage now in seven figures by reliable sources, the same women, peasants and children we claim to liberate, now under two Bush invasions of this impoverished yet petroleum rich land. The grave is no liberation.

Our ally Turkey invades our allies the Kurds in Iraq, and like papa Bush we desert our Kurdish...

DePalma's Awesome Anti-War Statement...
If you have read any of my other reviews, you'll see that I am a very huge fan of Brian DePalma's. I love every film he has ever made! But, don't let that distract from my opinion of this film. It's a film like this that makes me favor his work so much. Yes, there are some very scathing reviews of this film on here (and all over the web), but there are some really glowing one's as well; and, rightly so!
First off, this is NOT a 'war film', but an 'anti-war' film. Yes, Brian had the b*lls to make a statement declaring how awful this whole war mess in Iraq really is. And, the results are magnificent. This is possibly the most powerful piece of anti-war propaganda since Kubrick's "Paths of Glory", and/or DePalma's own "Hi, Mom!". Comparable in plot to his film "Casualties of War", DePalma used the 'raped-girl-murdered-family' theme here to symbolize the whole brutality and senselessness that is war. And, the whole 'raping of a nation' that it encompasses.
This is not just a...

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