Just to address the main points of this -
"Besides the fact that the plot really points out the self-hating conundrum that is liberal America - if you don't help the Iraqi minorities you're bad, if you do help them you're bad -"
Good Lord, you guys never let up, do you? Everything's a big, vast, huge, really big liberal conspiracy intended to humiliate you, the troops, and America. You remind of some people I knew in high school, except they were French and their obsession was George Bush and the United States, not liberals. Maybe you're not so different from the people you whine about so much.
"But I am curious, in a sort of clinical way, as to the root of your delusion. What, exactly, do you find disgraceful about the first Gulf War? The fact that our ally was invaded and we went to their aid?"
As mentioned by another poster, the critique was of the way George Bush Sr. deliberately encouraged the Shi'a towards their own suicide and then refused to support them - pretty sick, and spot on. I'm sorry, America can and does *beep* people in that way, all the time. If you don't like it, neither do I, but you might want to wake up and smell the shyte instead of pretending it's peanut butter.
Denny Crane.
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15 years ago
As for this movie in general; were we watching the same flick? After everything I'd heard about it, I expected it to be some kind of prequel to Syriana.
I was wrong - it's a good action flick, mixing adventure and political commentary in exactly the right doses. What the hell was there not to like? The soldiers in the movie were heroes who are shown saving Iraqi lives, you'd think conservatives would be happy about that. Yeah, they start out as gold hunters, but that's no different from any treasure hunt movie (again as another poster already pointed out) in which the main characters start out looking for money and adrenalin and end up fighting for something nobler.
(Hell, Rick O'Connell in "The Mummy" and the French Foreign Legion were portrayed doing the exact same thing. Did the French Foreign Legion scream bloody murder? No - because 1) it understood this was just a movie, 2) it understood that the filmmakers weren't personally out to get them, 3) it's OK with being portrayed in the media as something other than an Eagle Scout troop to be worshiped by the public without question).
The movie also portrayed the Republican Guard for the sadistic bastards that they were, and showed them getting their just desserts first at the hands of American soldiers, then at the hands of American soldiers leading a popular uprising. What, exactly, was wrong with any of that? The fact that they added in a few elements that were a little too real-life for the OP (like the actual political context)?
Denny Crane.
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