mikehzz
5th December 2010, 05:30 AM
I saw Fair Game at the movies yesterday. It stars Sean Penn and Naomi Watts and is a true story about the lead up to the Iraq war (the most recent one, in case of confusion). It's a good enough show with solid actors and a story line focussing on how information can be distorted to suit political agendas, destroying the reputation of those gathering the information in the process.
The US is a funny place really in how it allows movies like this to see the light of day. In many other countries I imagine the participants would have been shipped off to a gulag or something to hush any criticism, but the Americans to their credit take their freedom of speech very seriously indeed. One wonders how the likes of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld escaped prosecution for war crimes? I think that it could only be that Saddam Hussein was a bigger one. The Iraqi people are the big losers. Our conscience is consoled by the fact that they are a bunch of crazy Muslims and at each others throats anyway, right? Hussein must have been one tough bugger to keep law and order in that asylum. Democracy is for pussies....
Anyway, the movie is interesting without being spectacular. No gun fights or special effects, just an insiders view of recent history and worth a look. Mike
The US is a funny place really in how it allows movies like this to see the light of day. In many other countries I imagine the participants would have been shipped off to a gulag or something to hush any criticism, but the Americans to their credit take their freedom of speech very seriously indeed. One wonders how the likes of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld escaped prosecution for war crimes? I think that it could only be that Saddam Hussein was a bigger one. The Iraqi people are the big losers. Our conscience is consoled by the fact that they are a bunch of crazy Muslims and at each others throats anyway, right? Hussein must have been one tough bugger to keep law and order in that asylum. Democracy is for pussies....
Anyway, the movie is interesting without being spectacular. No gun fights or special effects, just an insiders view of recent history and worth a look. Mike