Iraq Satire

Except for all the Iraqis who have been blowing up and attacking the 'Coalition' troops you mean?


"You said it man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus."

I don't think it was a satire of Iraq. It kinda stuck in my head when the one guy said "I didn't care very much about being American untill now."

I think a lot of Americans didn't untill 9-11 (Hear me out)

I think the idea behind the game was that it shouldn't take a national disaster (9-11 in the real world, the invasion in the game) to remind us of who we are.

Everything is defined by it's opposite as it highlights the differences and the similarities. The type of government doesn't really matter as it is the peoples' reaction to the invasion that is being looked at, and how someone can be defined as a freedom fighter or a terrorist depending on what side you are viewing them from.

"You said it man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus."

the point(whoever started this idea) is trying tomake is that in the soviet's eyes Chris is a terrorist just like in our eyes the iraqi fighters are. I am not supporting muslim extremists here, in fact i despise terrorists, however the point is that the similarity is there. On another note there are freedom fighters all over the world so no need to get stuck up about the time differences of war in iraq and the game.

Remember democracy is not the perfect system (the FACT is, and this is not simply my opinion that communist ideas are atually the best, the problem is that no one has actually had a "real" communist state and also Communism is NOT supposed to be opressive the people made it the way it is) So how do u actually know thta the soviets in the FF universe did not have the best intentions ?

I said their were similarities not that they were exactly the same. I'm not trying to defend the actions of the current insurgents of Iraq, or the actions of anyone else for that matter. I just wanted to see if I wasn't the only one who saw distinct similarities between the 'Freedom Fighters' game and the war in Iraq.

"You said it man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus."

The game came out in fall 2003. That seems to be too soon for it to be a satire of the war in Iraq (which started in March 2003).

I seem to remember the news stations broadcasting that most Americans were overjoyed to be free of their corrupt capatilist oppressors in the game?

"You said it man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus."

certainly america was ousting an oppressive totalitarian regime in iraq and people would be happy about that but their continued presence in iraq is probably giving people there the impression that the americans want to rule their country and naturally theyre not going to be happy about that. the situation is basically the same in freedom fighters except people are less likely to believe the soviets because america was never run by an oppressive totalitarian regime (as far as we know) despite the claims made by the russian news anchor

"All I have to say is that

Iraq: Iraqis destroyed a massive statue of Saddam Hussein in direct celebration of what America had done

Freedom Fighters: You never see Americans tearing down the Statue of Liberty in celebration. "

Actually, the statue was pulled down by American troops, WHO THEN PROCEEDED TO DRAPE AN AMERICAN FLAG OVER IT. Until their commanding officer quietly told them to replace it with an Iraqi one...

I don't think it was intentional (at least not in the original phases of planning), but I DO think this game can be seen as a satire on the Iraq conflict. And please, people: don't keep clinging on to ideas that America went there to 'liberate'!