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[Avatar-Forums.com] veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan deride "Hurt Locker" - Avatar-Forums.com: is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.

[Atlas Shrugs] St. Louis Dispatch Shills for Bosnia Muslim Myths, Ducks Gorin ...: Based on Savich’s sorry effort, I can only feel that my assertion, that Monty Python is a much better source for accurate historical information than Savich and his fellow Serb nationalists, has been entirely vindicated. But before I show why this is so, I’d first like to take note of Savich’s attempt at cutting irony, directed at me, when he says:

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : While America Slept: Nor her self-sacrifice: the tale is told of Lyndon Johnson in 1966 asking Charles de Gaulle, when France left NATO in 1966 and demanded the removal of all American bases from French soil: “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?” (There are 30,922 Americans from the First World War buried in France and 93,245 from the Second.) On D-Day itself, American lost 2,500 killed, Britain 1,641, Canada 359, and there were Australians and New Zealanders too. Indeed, the English-speaking peoples took 98.4 percent of the military casualties liberating France that day, despite the fact that in June 1944 the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia faced no conceivable threat of invasion from Germany.

[slacktivist] slacktivist: Housekeeping: Time away from the computer meant more time reading books and I'm 100+ pages into Tom Ricks' Fiasco, meaning I've now read much more of this dismal history of the Iraq debacle than either President Bush or Condi Rice read of the National Intelligence Estimate allegedly detailing the reasons for this misadventure. The events detailed are dismal, that is, the book itself is excellent and highly recommended.

[Stromata Blog] Stromata Blog: A Whimper It Is: An infantryman's searing memoir of the battle for Fallujah in November 2004, a crucial, hard-fought victory over al-Qa'eda and its allies. Whatever history thinks about the war in Iraq, this book is a future classic of military literature.

[Powell's Books: Review-A-Day] Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of ...: Kurdistan is not totally safe, but it is an important part of Iraq and you can more or less operate there pretty well." A translator for Time and CNN, Yousif Mohammed Basil, responds to the good news, bad news debate this way: "As an Iraqi, living inside Iraq, I cannot hear good news, and even if there is good news, you cannot hear it with the noises of explosions and the noises of the terrorists and the noises of American military operations."

[The Colossus of Rhodey] The Colossus of Rhodey: The Top Ten Conservative Movies of the ...: There are no shades of gray in The Hurt Locker, and this is a strikingly patriotic motion picture that has been embraced by an American public weary of the anti-Americanism churned out by Hollywood in its portrayal of the War on Terror – from Rendition and Lions for Lambs to Redacted and In the Valley of Elah. The Hurt Locker is by far the best conservative film of 2009, and one of the greatest of the decade.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » “A Huge Slap In The ...: is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.

[Knoxville.com Stories] Knoxville.com | War veterans battle portrayal of military in 'Hurt ...: Many in the military say “Hurt Locker” is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for. Even Brian Williams, the NBC News anchor, took a shot on his blog, writing a post titled, “The Hurt Locker: Hurting for a fact-checker.” The movie's positive reviews could not have been “written by anyone who had spent any time with U.S. .

[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007 - 2007-09-14 06:00:00 ...: C's latest project is a series of political and philosophical essays, and Coetzee divides each page of the present novel in three: any given page features a bit of an essay (often its title and opening paragraph) at the top;

[PowellsBooks.Blog] Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.Blog - Review-a-Day - Stories Behind ...: Kurdistan is not totally safe, but it is an important part of Iraq and you can more or less operate there pretty well." A translator for Time and CNN, Yousif Mohammed Basil, responds to the good news, bad news debate this way: "As an Iraqi, living inside Iraq, I cannot hear good news, and even if there is good news, you cannot hear it with the noises of explosions and the noises of the terrorists and the noises of American military operations."

[SWJ Blog] 31 August SWJ Op-Ed Roundup (SWJ Blog): The uncompromising, frank, slightly academic and entirely energetic US commander of the multinational force in Iraq has made a positive assessment of the effects of the 20,000-strong surge in Iraq and is already looking at the new battlefield geometry that flows from that conclusion. That geometry is based on the evidence of military progress in Iraq during the surge as a result of a more aggressive attitude in hunting al-Qa'ida and militia extremists, placing increasing political pressure on the Iraqi Government to include dispossessed and disaffected Sunnis, and an increasingly bellicose attitude towards Iran.

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