Anecdote from director's talk in Omaha raises recurring question: Why did we invade Iraq in 2003?

[Omaha Steve]

Damn Hollywood liberals!

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/anecdote-from-director-s-talk-in-omaha-raises-recurring-question/article_8bd64ac4-8ff0-568a-a8de-3f67ce1e4662.html


RYAN SODERLIN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Award-winning director-screenwriters Alexander Payne, left, and David O. Russell talk movies Monday before a live audience of 1,138 at the Holland Performing Arts Center. The discussion between friends raised $327,000 for Film Streams, Omaha’s nonprofit art house movie theater.


POSTED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 1:00 AM
By Henry J. Cordes / World-Herald staff writer

During a free-wheeling discussion about movies this week, film director David O. Russell told a large Omaha audience about his meeting with then-presidential candidate George W. Bush in 1999.

“I said, ‘I’m editing a film questioning your father’s legacy in Iraq,’ ” Russell recalled. “He said, ‘I think I’m going to have to go back there and finish the job.’ ”

The anecdote no doubt raised some eyebrows in the audience of 1,100 at the Holland Performing Arts Center. It’s a story that seems to support the long-held narrative of many Iraq War opponents: that Bush went to war in Iraq in 2003 to complete his father’s “unfinished” 1991 Gulf War and remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power.

It’s not the first time Russell has told the story. And while it doesn’t appear that Bush has ever addressed it specifically, the former president numerous times has denied that his decision on Iraq had anything to do with his father’s earlier Middle East war. He said as much in his just-released biography of his father, George H.W. Bush.

FULL story at link.

[hollysmom]

1. aw, come on - we all knew

why do people keep forgetting the CD that was dropped before 2001 that had plans for selling the war in Iraq? seriously do people have to be told again and act surprised? I never knew why that as not publicized more when it happened, it was in the news and then it was like scrubbed out of the news

[Octafish]

2. Stupit libruls. Everyone knows it's because Saddam attacked us on 9-11.

George W Bush told us, although he wouldn't swear to it.

[BlueJazz]

3. It wouldn't surprise me if Saddam didn't pilot one of the planes that hit the Towers.

He could have jumped out just before the plane hit. There's a lot of Muslins in NYC so he wouldn't even be noticed.
That's what I think.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Oil, the CIA which is controlled by petroleum companies, Saudi Arabia.

See where the Bush criminal enterprise intersects all three.