Why is there such a paucity of Iraq War films?

[genie_weenie]

Now that the War against those Dastardly Saddam backed 911 terrorists and the Enshrinement of Glorious Democratic Values in the Backwards Middle East and the Freeing of the latent American who resides inside every Iraqi has gone on longer than WWII where are the war films?

Where is the Iraq equivalent of the Sands of Iwo Jima? Perhaps we could call it the Streets of Hadithah? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/marines_haditha

or The Best Years of their Lives? The Iraq version could be The Worst "Year" of their Lives Extended Again & Again? http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/11/military.stay/index.html

or The Fighting Seabees? We could make a film called The Bloated Contractors of Kellogg, Brown & Root (a subsidiary of Halliburton ), DynCorp, Blackwater, The Louis Berger Group, The Rendon Group and more...
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518

When is Hollywood going to turn Pat Tillman into Audie Murphy?

How about a new They Were Expendable? I guess we wouldn't have to change that title.

Something more than Gunner Palace and the odd FX series Over There needs to make it's way to the American people.

The DoD learned it's lessons from Vietnam very well, they will not allow the unvarnished truth to make it's way from Iraq. Service members are being censored in theater and at home (Adam Kokesh, the restrictions on camera phones, the censoring of military blogs, the Terrorist Bush ignoring of military funerals, and so on).

Who controls the radio, television and film studios? Will any of them step forward and really show the American people what is being done in their name to innocent Iraqis? And the terrible damage we are doing to the hearts, minds, souls and bodies of another American generation?

"If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied"

[MonkeyFunk]

1. It's still a little soon

Vietnam movies didn't become "big" until a few years after the war ended. Of Gulf War I movies I can think of (Jarhead, Three Kings) they all took a few years, too.

Often, they're based on books by people who were there - they have to a) come home and b) write a book.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. why post twice?

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