Political Hackery Over Iraq War

J.J. Jackson* | September 5, 2007

Filed Under Iraq

Don’t ever let liberals and isolationists fool you into believing that they actually care about people. Not when they do things like this:

VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.”Redacted”, by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice’s main competition.

Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

De Palma, 66, whose “Casualties of War” in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film’s images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.

“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people,” he told reporters after a press screening.

“The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war,” he said.

So there you have it. He wants to “stop the war.” That’s the only reason for picking a horrific incident and plastering it on the bog screen as some sort of icon of the Iraq War? Of course if that “stop” to the war means that Al-Qaeda takes over and Sharia Law becomes common and women are stoned to death because they are raped, that is ok … because at least there won’t be any war!

Thank God there are still people with a brain and with some adult tendencies out there that stand up against this sort of lunacy and for the unalienable rights of mankind.

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