I was at one of my favorite sites to get my news of what is going on in the Global War on Terror (GWOT).  All was good until I found, to my dismay, that my favorite site had been taken over by the daily kos crowd.  I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone, then I realized it was only the one story that made it to the Drudge Report.  The post that had been infected by the left wing kooks was about the latest crap coming from Brian De Palma and financed by Mark Cuban.  Here is the post that caught my ire the most:

I love DePalma and can’t wait to see this film. None of the criticisms against him seem to hold any water. He’s a filmmaker/journalist: he pulls together actual footage and shows it to a public that doesn’t get the whole story in Iraq. Good for him. What’s really frightening is how much violence I see in the comment boards directed towards him. THAT is great witness to the type of behavior (of many Americans) that DePalma is trying to show the world.

Here is my response

The problem with your thinking is that he did not use actual footage and if he did it was taken out of context.

Pat Dollard, Michael Yon, and Matt Sanchez are all credible journalist who are only sited by certain news outlets.  But these three and others are the only real deal, Katie can go to the "Green Zone" for ratings, DePalma can slander the heroes of our day and call themselves the authority on the GWOT (Global War on Terror for you lefties).  They don't go on patrols, or hang out with the troops on the ground but can pass judgment on the actions and reactions that can mean life or death for a Soldier, Airman, Sailor or MARINE.

It is easy to sit back in the armchair and scream at the TV when you think that the failed play called by the football coach did not work, but put your own ass on the line and watch these very same people decide that the freedoms that they take for granted are not worth defending.

I guess the thing that really got me was Brian De Palma and Mark Cuban were trying to actually make it sound like they were trying to do their best to care for our troops.  The whole left wing of the TV, movies, and news have all gotten upset when they go to a site where people, of an opinion that differs from their own, are used to being able to speak freely and vent.  As long as this anger is directed to the right it tends to be alright, I mean the left is always saying in their actions that it is ok to offend the conservatives in this Great Nation of ours.  But, God help the person that happens to direct that same anger toward a figure on the wrong, sorry I meant left.  Actions that were unthinkable twenty years ago are now becoming the norm.  Former Presidents didn’t criticize policies of the sitting President, now it is no big deal to hear from Jimmy Carter.  It was unthinkable to make a movie or TV show that had a plot of assassination of the sitting President.  How about a show on Comedy Central that depicts our Commander-in-Chief as a bumbling fool?

The person who came up with the saying “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned” never met a liberal.  A liberal, sorry progressive, with a cause is even worse.  A liberal operative with a cause is even more dangerous than a Navy Seal; at least with the Seal you know that you will die with whatever honor you still possess he will not disgrace you or your corpse.  Go back to the post from y’all are funny and you will see what I mean.  “He’s a filmmaker/journalist: he pulls together actual footage and shows it to a public that doesn’t get the whole story in Iraq. Good for him.”  the journalist tag does not fit.  Filmmaker yes, but a journalist Mr. De Palma is not.  And as it turns out it was not only reported to the proper authority, it was prosecuted.  Those that committed the heinous acts played out in Mr. De Palma’s film were even convicted and the minimum sentence that I found was 20 years.  There are at least two of those involved that received life sentences and the main actor received a sentence of over 120 years, I don’t think he will live out his sentence, thank God.

The problem that I have with this film and no it has not even been released but Mr. De Palma has already told me what it is about, is that it turns the exception into the rule.  It is very much like another film that De Palma made about another war, or police action depending on who you talk to.  If you cannot figure it out the name of his own movie that he has plagiarized is “Casualties of War”.   At least De Palma waited until we had left Viet Nam to make our Viet Nam era servicemen look like depraved criminals.  Although the movie is based on an actual criminal act perpetrated by a member of our Armed Forces, I fear that the reality that De Palma speaks of is that of a delusional lunatic. 

I read a piece that I found at patdollard.com that was originally in the New York Post that did an actual comparison of crime statistics between safe towns here in the States compared to the same stats covering our troops in Iraq.  Hands down there was less crime within the ranks of our troops than there was in the proclaimed “Safest City” in America.  When the troops were compared to larger cities on a per capita basis, the troops were still better behaved in a much more dangerous and chaotic lifestyle.

If De Palma wanted to do a film that was a realistic depiction of what is really going on over in Iraq he would have made a movie that showed one of two things.  First, he might have used Staff Sergeant Lee from a dispatch from Michael Yon and shown the American people how one good Marine can bring stability to a region.  SSgt Lee has been mentoring Iraqi Army soldiers how to lead from the front.  Or maybe he would have diligently worked on a story line about the real atrocities in Iraq, The crimes that are committed by Al Quada in Iraq.  It may have even given Rob Zombies remake of the classic horror movie “Halloween” a run for its money.  It could be billed as a real slasher.  De Palma would have to edit out most of the torture room gore just to keep an “R” rating, but at least it would be closer to honest.