IRAQ 'em up

im really not sure how it came to be, but im blaming my cd holders...

recently, i have been watching a lot of films regarding this thing, or situation in Iraq you might have heard about... i have seen 4 films about it... the first is the UK film Death of a President, then Nick bllomfield's Battle for Haditha,the war satire War, Inc.,and the last is Stop-Loss by Kimberly Pierce... the best of the four would have to be the third...

Death... is a mockumentary of a fictional assasination of the Dubya. great premise, but a very bad film.... You would think the assasinatiuon of Bush would be amazing, but with this film? not so much... but everything leading up to the actual assassination was great, but unfortunately the assassination happened in the first 30 minutes of the film, and eveything went downhill from there, save for the speech writer anmd the Iranian woman.

War, Inc., was a major major disaster... hillary duff as a pop star who made headlines by singing suggestive tunes who happened to be the lost daughter of john cusack, who is under a secret military project in Tarjikistan, and who feel in love with a US reporter that is marissa tomei... yes, its that bad!!! thankfully i watched this on my cousins laptop, and i started playing crack attack in the middle of the film, which was so much more fulfilling... it ended with hillary duff in a wedding gown, in an airplane with john and marissa...

Battle for Haditha was powerful, it dealt with the killing of one US soldier and injuring another with a bomb planted beside one of the road in Haditha by the insurgents... afterwhich, the US soldiers started a killing spree killing mostly women and children... shocking as it was done on the pretense of being in pursuit of terroists, when in fact, the killing was more of vengeance and not SOP as their superior once intended... it showedthe laxity of the checkpoint that let the bomb get away, the fact that civillians were trapped/caight ion the middle. Even if they saw the bomb planting, they cannot reveal to the soldiers, as insurgents would kill them,and if they stay silent, the military would accuse them of harboring terrorist... catch-22...

Stop-Loss is my second favorite as it boasts of acting princes, from Channing Tatum, to Ryan Philippe, jason Gordon-Levitt and Rob Brown.... Stop-Loss is when a soldier who has completed a tour of duty, is once again called to serve... this happens as there are no more men signing up in the army, its a bad bad cycle... i couldn't imagine myself going through hell and back again, for who knows how long... this soldiers have seen deaths... those of their comrades and worse, those they create, and most of it, done unwillingly... war changes men, perceptions, beliefs, relationships... and only a fraction for the good... an insurgent said that the US created them, when will it ever stop?

i wonder whether we realize what war is doing to everybody, especially the young ones we call upon to serve, to protect... i have marched with hundred of students in opposition to this war... which, unfortunately is still on going... i guess to many has been killed... worse is, the irony... the US went to IRAQ to bring democracy... but has clearly neglected and forgotten what it means...