"Control Room" ,Collides With Superiors...Is Silenced for Honesty

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Marine Lands in Film, Collides With Superiors
A military spokesman is silenced after candid comments in a movie on Al Jazeera and Iraq war.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0802-03.htm


WASHINGTON — For most of the central figures in the documentary film "Control Room," the grisly images that emerged from last year's U.S. invasion of Iraq were no cause for a change of opinion.

Over the length of the film, director Jehane Noujaim's inside look at the war through the eyes and lenses of Al Jazeera's journalists based at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, the chasm only widens between the U.S. military officials who speak about the "liberation" of Iraq and the Al Jazeera reporters skeptical of the invasion.

The exception is a young Marine lieutenant named Josh Rushing.


“Control Room” depicts then-Lt. Josh Rushing’s friendship with an Al Jazeera reporter.

Rushing, a Central Command spokesman assigned to escort the documentary makers during their time in Qatar, is among the film's most sympathetic characters, portrayed as a thoughtful young man moved over time by the grim reality of war.


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[bryant69]

1. Control Room was very good

I can understand why they are keeping Lt. Rushing under wraps though; he seems pretty smart and articulate and unlikely to follow the Rumsfeld line.

Bryant
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