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Initech

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66. I hate Iraq War movies.

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:48 PM

Feb 2015

Movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Hurt Locker, and American Sniper all glorify George W Bush's never ending war for profit. It's a situation that we never should have been in the first place, we should have been going after Pakistan (where bin Laden was this whole time) and Saudi Arabia (who financed the 9/11 hijackers) instead. Movies like these are just reminders of a sad reality in this country. Had we elected Al Gore instead, we probably wouldn't be in this war in the first place.

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�My first impulse is to call you a dumb Obama ass-licking c**t�: �American Sniper� fans tell me off [View all] tenderfoot Feb 2015 OP

American Sniper fans aren't bigoted! NuclearDem Feb 2015 #1

America Sniper fans are bigotted...and if you think otherwise...irrelevant childishness either way. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #6

This movie was directed by someone SmittynMo Feb 2015 #37

This cartoon sums it up... KansDem Feb 2015 #55

Patriotism is for fools. L0oniX Feb 2015 #60

I don't understand the extremes on both sides bigwillq Feb 2015 #2

I do agree that the over-heated HappyMe Feb 2015 #19

It's not 'just a movie'. It's war porn. Has the same factors of all American sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #28

We should simply stick to HappyMe Feb 2015 #33

You can watch any type of porn you want to. American Sniper isn't a 'story', it's sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #39

Porn? lol! HappyMe Feb 2015 #41

You didn't read the story I linked to either. I'll continue to call it porn. sinkingfeeling Feb 2015 #44

Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (with nods also KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #49

I think that's a very big part of it. Marr Feb 2015 #71

A Movie? freebrew Feb 2015 #35

The war mongers tend to be fired up HappyMe Feb 2015 #38

I totally disagree with you fasttense Feb 2015 #63

I grew up during the Viet Nam war. HappyMe Feb 2015 #65

If there was a countering influence of reality then a war movie would have less of an impact. fasttense Feb 2015 #67

It is true that now you have to hunt things down. HappyMe Feb 2015 #69

I believed Colin Powell, too d_r Feb 2015 #78

No it is not "just a movie" zeemike Feb 2015 #22

"It is just a movie" is also the new excuse to defend the increasing criticism of the lies in the movie seen on Fox. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #23

Yeah, and Triumph of the Will was "just a movie" too. BeanMusical Feb 2015 #24

Ha, that is the one I could not remember. zeemike Feb 2015 #25

Or, "Birth of a Nation" olegramps Feb 2015 #68

Agree. mountain grammy Feb 2015 #29

This is not about the movie. cynzke Feb 2015 #26

+1 - excellent erronis Feb 2015 #62

Excellent response! BlueMTexpat Feb 2015 #64

I agree.... I'm sure Clint Eastwood appreciates it though secondwind Feb 2015 #32

A lot of Nazi propaganda was done as movies n/t nichomachus Feb 2015 #77

If it was just a movie, then people wouldn't get so excited. It's way more than that. rhett o rick Feb 2015 #90

I saw this movie by chance treestar Feb 2015 #3

I thought this movie was nuanced DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #7

No, that would be the way the war media has ignored that the whole movie is based in a lie. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #18

Yes. That seemed so completely treestar Feb 2015 #61

I don't agree with Eastwood on politics deutsey Feb 2015 #42

Both of those movies were far more nuanced than American Sniper appears to be. alarimer Feb 2015 #76

I'm opposed to everything that Kyle has apparently come to embody deutsey Feb 2015 #83

questions Skittles Feb 2015 #79

No. The movie was about the sniper treestar Feb 2015 #88

So that's what happens when you get keyboard kommandos concentrated in one area ck4829 Feb 2015 #4

Don't you dare to diminish the brave service of the "101st fighting Keyboardists"! DetlefK Feb 2015 #5

You do realize you are firing away with the same weaponry? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #8

I'm not threatening anybody, so no, I'm not ck4829 Feb 2015 #10

What? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #11

What indeed ck4829 Feb 2015 #15

I see positive and negative comments on most movies yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #9

The big deal is the movie is based on a lie that was based on a lie and produced by a bigot who Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #12

I don't care really. All movies have a Hollywood spin to then yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #34

I didn't need to see Dinesh D'Souza's crap to know that I would dislike it.. frylock Feb 2015 #72

Rest my case! yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #74

what case? frylock Feb 2015 #80

My original reply said that most who did not see the yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #81

i'm glad you enjoyed the fairy tale of the gentle and remorseful Chris Kyle frylock Feb 2015 #84

Lol. I never said that. Your awesome though! yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #86

I'm talking about the people who like the film going after people who didn't like it ck4829 Feb 2015 #13

People are treating it for the Islamaphobic tripe and historical lying to support Bush lies that it is. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #16

I have 0 desire to ever see this GOP movie katmondoo Feb 2015 #14

Exactly. But folks in America do love their patriotic war porn...a little lying goes a long ways. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #17

I can't even imagine what kind of person feels better after seeing a snuff film. tridim Feb 2015 #20

The same ones cheering the night the once magnificent of Baghdad was being ripped apart by massive bombing. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #21

American Sniper in 5 minutes: Gore1FL Feb 2015 #27

That is hysterical! truebrit71 Feb 2015 #89

Welcome to the "marginalized". ieoeja Feb 2015 #30

It's interesting that this film and "50 Shades of Grey" have done so well deutsey Feb 2015 #31

I hate war movies fadedrose Feb 2015 #36

I hate Iraq War movies. Initech Feb 2015 #66

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And whatta you bet . . . OldRedneck Feb 2015 #45

good thing GOP allowed their 'war hero' a cushie job, unlimited guns & built a gun range for him. Sunlei Feb 2015 #46

Regardless of the cyber-stupidity din Plucketeer Feb 2015 #47

Kyle was an American soldier. SCVDem Feb 2015 #48

No, not amazed or horrified heaven05 Feb 2015 #50

I think I love you and if I wasn't married Sissyk Feb 2015 #82

thank you heaven05 Feb 2015 #92

Send in the tailors father founding Feb 2015 #51

Ah, Such Red-Bloodedness! charles d Feb 2015 #52

I saw this bumper sticker a couple of days ago... KansDem Feb 2015 #53

I haven't seen it and I'm not going to, but Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #54

The movie is pretty nuanced Prism Feb 2015 #57

the problem is that Kyle wasn't the least bit conflicted or remorseful in HIS bio.. frylock Feb 2015 #85

I wouldn't be shocked if that language was posted on DU these days MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #56

This is the scariest part: Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #58

This is what happens when you have military based nation. L0oniX Feb 2015 #59

Eventually there will be a Full Metal Jacket style Iraq War movie. Marr Feb 2015 #70

This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Feb 2015 #73

kick Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #75

On the bright side it gave the author something to write about. aikoaiko Feb 2015 #87

I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to. NaturalHigh Feb 2015 #91