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Scratches Surface or Perpetuates Myths?

posted 19 years ago by Ndwwaldo78
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This is a good film. I'm a Kevin Spacey fan, and even though Tony Goldwyn plays a stereotype, he does good. However, does this film scratch the surface on real events with Iraq, before Desert Storm? Or perhaps does is drift into fiction, based on fact, like Frederick Forsyth? Day of the Jackal was loosely based on real plots to assassinate Charles De Gaulle. Forsyth even wrote a novel based around the Doomsday Gun, called Fist of God. Both are good. This is not to assert any specific political ideology, but does this treat the intel on the Allies lightly or is this a tour de farce?

[–] robzilla_73 19 years ago

i'm 34 and was in the USAR at the time of the first gulf war. I also followed geopolitical events then as i do now. the scary thing is that this doomsday gun story is true, the parts of the gun were discovered in transit to Iraq in i think June 90- just before Saddam invaded Kuwait and Gerald Bull was killed.

Saddam was our buddy back then because he was mowing down Iranians for us, kind of like all the Central American dictators we supported then too. they may have been thugs but they were our thugs is how the thinking went.or the enemy of my enemy is my friend. and we were pissed at the Iranians for overthrowing the Shah and seizing the embassy. actually, just about everyone supported Saddam then, Russians, French, us.

i didn't know forsyth wrote a novel, i'll have to check it out, but this really is a case of life imitating art, ian fleming couldn't have done better

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[–] Royalcourtier 9 years ago

Bull was assassinated by the Israelis - one of thousands killed by Mossad and other Jewish terrorist organisations. Unfortunately as Jews control Hollywood we will never see an American film that reflects how awful Israel really is.