Green Zone, released last week, is a fictional movie based upon historical facts. If you have not read the Sherwinator’s review, you should do so. A secret source, code named “Magellan,” exposed all of the Iraqi sites of WMD to the US government after confirming the existence of the program. Yet the American tropps, specifically Matt Damon, come up empty handed each time that they go out on an op. Why is this so? Why did this actually happen to us? Well, Green Zone is based on an element of truth in the invasion of Iraq that took place in 2003.
The Bush administration had been in contact with an Iraqi defector named “Curveball” who had presumably told them about the WMD programs and the locations of the secret weapons production facilities and other sites that were involved in the program. He was a source of unproven information who had been deemed unreliable and unconfirmed from the German intelligence agency. Basically, this was a CIA report that had been provided by Germany and then filed away in a desk somewhere to be revived when Bush came to power and said, “find me a reason to goto war with Iraq.”
He was never identified nor was he ever interrogated by the US. We simply blindly followed some unconfirmed, unverified report by the Germans that they had deemed to be falsified. The source, Curveball, was never found again or identified and this falsified report was flaunted around Washington as if it was the word of G-d. This is what took us to war.
Unfortunately, this has cost us thousands of American lives. Knowing this, would you support this war?
Jay Booshay
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“Unfortunately, this has cost us thousands of American lives. Knowing this, would you support this war?”
Why only mention the thousands of Ammericans who died in this war?
You’re right, but I guess I was just thinking about it from the movie’s point of view, from America. The war has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis unfortunately and has destroyed their society and stability.
Great movie….but did we not send in British troops who have lost their lives also….not just Iraqis or Americans! I now understand why the rest of europe didnt want involved in this.
We all know it was a big mistake. This just shows one part of it.
Please halp us jon carry
by S.W.Charleston III
Please halp us jon carry, cuz we r stuck here in irak
Donny Rumsfeld is a genius, and dubya has got our back
The people here all love us, and there is no other place we would rather be
Everyone wants to be occupied, and there is no insurgency
Please halp us jon carry, cuz only you r to blame
You had no plan for the occupation, and your incompetence fanned the flames
The people here all love us, and deluge us with flowers and sweets
We will keep on pawn sacrificing, until your victory is complete
Please halp us jon carry, cuz you said “bring em on”
You weren’t too concerned about Osama, but at least you got Saddam
The people here all love us, for helping them build an Islamic theocracy
All of the bloodshed and chaos is their version of democracy
Please halp us jon carry, cuz we are having too much fun
Unlike you, Bush is a war hero, and he will never cut and run
The people here all love us they show how much with their bombs
You put us in this quagmire, and got (us) stuck in another Vietnam
Please halp us jon carry, cuz too many of our brave brothers and sisters have died
You said “mission accomplished, but as death toll keeps rising we know you lied
The people here all love us, as do our families who want us to come home
“Stay the course” you declare, and play your fiddle like Nero in burning Rome
Please halp us jon carry, cuz we all think the same
We watch Fox news, vote Republican and know the liberals are to blame.
The people here all love us, and giving our lives is a small price to pay
We don’t want be here, but have no choice other than to serve and obey
Please halp us jon carry, cuz we are disposable heroes and cannon fodder
Your lies and ignorance have led us, like patriotic lambs to the slaughter
The people here all love us, just like Halliburton and the war profiteers too
The right wing pundits would volunteer to fight, if they didn’t have better things to do
Please halp us jon carry, cuz Tony Snow and Karl Rove were right
You really should apologize; criticizing the messiah Bush is a blasphemous slight
The people here all hate us, because of your botched joke
The war was going beautifully, before you opened your mouth and spoke
fuck bush and obama and their freemason nwo controlled country
I like hot tub time machine better!
No matter what, terrorism is just a term used to inject terror into our minds.. Greed is the main problem of this world..
American soldiers or any other soldiers, died for nothing.. They died for the better interest of some heartless souls.. We can’t stop them because they control everything so there is no such thing as freedom, we’re all getting anally f behind our backs..
We live & we die..
FREEMASON FOR LIFE..
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn……………………………….
THE DUDE is 100% right !!! GREED GREED GREED!!! its the only thing that human nature cannot let it go ! coz thats human ! well said dude
to the guy talkng about the soldiers dying for nothing (in quote), ” They died for the better interest of some heartless souls.. We can’t stop them because they control everything so there is no such thing as freedom, we’re all getting anally f behind our backs.”
Dude u are absolutly right, this principle is involved in everything and situation in this world. We, the people who are not the greedy ones have to watch this terrible thing happen…
And terrible it is…
This movie makes me so angry! The government is so crooked and selfish! And for what?! Money and oil? Irony: oil is killing us now! But the innocent have to pay! Fucked up world we live in! Enjoy it while it lasts.
It is understandable that people’s first reaction will be anger and frustration, i agree that going to war over a lie is…
(well, i cant even find the right word for it)
but, and there is a but :
do you really honestly believe that every single person involved in the decision making process inside the government is corrupt and greedy?
i am sure that there are allot of other unpublished reasons
and explanations for going to war.
also, can the world really continue on with his daily life peacefully while a tyrant like saddam hussein is in power,
constantly destabilizing the region?
i think that – although there might be unjustified reasons for starting that war (that remains to be proven) – the outcome is serving us all.
keep in mind that everybody has an agenda – including the movie maker.
There were those who were not corrupt that came to the Bush administration to explain the implications of their plan but they were all turned away by the various governmental figures who just did not want to hear that side of the story. You are right, however, about everyone’s agenda.
This movie was so true it made me feel like eatin’ a turd pie!
Everyone be prepared for world war 3 thanks to Israel and Iran, North Korea and South Korea. My dad told me when I was a kid (which i could of cared less then) that we always have to go to war to boost the enconomy! THis is so sick and with what is going on in the world and the population being more than ever in the history of time. Many will die. Hang on its going to be a bumpy ride in late July and early August. Look for the stock market to take a nose dive and many other natural disasters (as if we need another oil spill or tsunami) Earthquake will be inevitable in July 16? for LA. I am very intutive and I first cried about it now after meditating and connecting with GOD, I feel good and I trust that God will take us to another level (on the evolution scale) we need chaos in order for drastic change and we need to spiritually evolve. If you look at our society in general we can only ask when? People are getting nuttier and more narcisstic then ever, we reward bad behavior, we have sickened our society with precription drugs and bad food, we have sexed up even our kids which is so ridiculous, I am by far a prude and feel sex is sacred but we have cheapened that, thanks fellow women, we were suppose to evolve after the sixties, but all you porn stars and strippers have set us back include the quasi lesibans. (the chicks that are not really gay but want to turn guys on) Then we have everyone having kids who shouldn’t even on a pet rock, mix in with some serious child abusers and we have got millions of people in jail, on drugs and just screwed up. So where do you think we go from here? do the math.
I am a believer that certain wars in the past were needed, and i support our troops fully. This war however i never agreed with. I understand that Iraq was a third world country and needed help but to bring a war on a nation that was a wreck to begin with was not the right thing to do. I know that we were attacked on 9 11 and that was a very sad day for all of us americans, but it was only a small part of Iraq that wanted this attack to happen. If you watch any movie, the Iraqi soldiers were fighting for their country. Not because they hated america. Although now im sure they do hate us all. I want our troops to come home as much as all of us. this war was not needed. Our government could of done better
Just so you know, there were no Al -Quada in Irag until the Americans occupied it. another lie.
This war was not just greed, profiteering, and oil… it is also related to certain war mongerers in Israel… and their desire for control of the region… watch what is happening in Iran… It is Iraq war deja vu…We don’t need to fight others wars… we have enough of our own problems… w, cheney and other pro-Israeli forces within and outside our government need to be brought to justice…traitors who should rot in hell…
Think about all the Iraqi citizens lives when Sadam had control. It’s a good thing that we helped out.