John McCain on TCM I can't believe what he's saying

[cheshire]

Talking about older movie,Paths of Glory. Says this is the movie and how he used it to guide him in his policy as a politician. The movie is about a Government who sends men to a war that is wrong. It is a exactly what is happening today.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. WTF....has he completely lost his mind??

[IIgnoreNobody]

3. Perhaps it's a case of

good intentions and really, really, really poor judgement.

[cheshire]

5. I thought he was making a statement against Bush but he turned it

around to make GW look like he was right. I swear I just don't understand some people. I'm watching this stupid movie just to see. I hate war movies. But I think it's a paralel.

[jdsmith]

11. Boy, is it ever not a "stupid" movie

The last sequence--the one in the bar--ought to be shown anybody who thinks that war has winners.

[sir_captain]

19. Stupid? Perhaps less stupid than this post.

Paths of Glory is one of the greatest films ever made--it's an anti-war film, to boot. Why must people talk when they have no idea of what they speak?

[rockymountaindem]

2. That is one of my favorite movies.

I don't think that's what it's about at all. It's mostly about the figment of justice for the individual, and corrupt rich people using others as pawns.

[Gyre]

4. Do ya think it's possible

that he's "speaking between the lines"? Just a thought.:)

Gyre

[terrya]

6. Obviously, he hasn't gotten around to seeing it.

It's a great film. I sure hope Senator McCain actually sees it.

[cheshire]

7. He said it's his favorite.

[grasswire]

8. he said the other day....

...that Bush is a man of integrity whose decisions are moral and sound.

[eleny]

9. That's bizarre (Caution - Spolier in my reply)

As the story unfolds, it's politics behind the decision to advance the troops and then to have the firing squad.

[cheshire]

10. No prob on spoiler, I may not be able to stomach this. Breaks my heart.

[LVdem]

12. Maybe McCain means the movie...

Dr. Strangelove!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. I disagree in part

I disagree that the movie is about a government sending its men to a war that is wrong. France was invaded in 1914. They didn't invade the Germans. The Germans had also earlier invaded France in the 1870s a little over 40 years before 1914 in the Franco-Prussian war. Some of that Franco-Prussian war was still being fought in 1914, just as World War II as concerns France and Germany was a continuation of World War I. The French stopped the Germans just a few dozen kilometers from their capital, Paris, and pushed them back. These soldiers were fighting for the very life of their country. I respectfully think it would be incorrect to compare this film to the present situation in Iraq where it was America that invaded (if that's what you are saying - if that's not what you meant then I apologize).

The movie does touch on the folly of the tactics of some of the French Generals. The Nivelle Offensive killed hundreds of thousands of French soldiers in all-out head-on assaults that gained very little territory. Verdun and the Chemin-des-Dames were some of the bloodiest battles in history.

I do think that the movie emphasizes the fact that the soldier is a pawn of the politicians and the generals, the latter who sometimes don't really care for their men but only in the path of their own glory.

[cheshire]

14. I repeated what he was telling the MC, who asked McCain what he would tell

Kerry about the movies message. I was trying to type before I forgot but he bsically said his usual retoric about how GW is doing fine. Like I said not my thoughts but McCains.

[Disturbed]

15. !

[cheshire]

17. Makes bush look like an evangilist healer. and McCain a boy toy.

[MissMarple]

16. Have you noticed McCain doesn't smile much with George?

Curious. When George was talking to the press the other day, McCain looked grim.

[cheshire]

18. On the plane, he was pulled over toward * by * and then grimaced.

[Guaranteed]

20. He's got to be recognizing the injustice of it.

Of ALL the movies I've EVER seen to make me stark-raving mad at our country, that one is by far the strongest.

[cheshire]

21. McCain said at the end. I shows how military men are willing to die for

their country no matter what. I think he fails to see just how many of them are thinking for themselves.