Every war movie made in the last four years IS ABOUT IRAQ, if only as metaphor and allegory. Go watch JARHEAD or Clint Eastwood’s FLAGS/LETTERS duology, and then try to tell me that the makers of those films didn’t intend for their creations to have some kind of relevance to current events in the GWoT.

mikeomatic on January 17, 2007 at 1:49 AM

I agree. I think all the movies that have recently come out were testers – get a feel for how far they can take things. But I still think they will be coming out with a long list of movies that deal directly with this conflict. I think last November’s elections will speed up the process – they probably feel they got the green light to proceed.

Every war movie made in the last four years IS ABOUT IRAQ, if only as metaphor and allegory. Go watch JARHEAD or Clint Eastwood’s FLAGS/LETTERS duology, and then try to tell me that the makers of those films didn’t intend for their creations to have some kind of relevance to current events in the GWoT.

Here’s the gist of the argument. The far left in America doesn’t care about jihad any more than they cared about the gulag. They care about their ideology here at home. They correctly identify all of us (lead by the frighteningly Christian and Texan GWB) as their ideological and cultural enemies. They will take any opportunity to defeat us. In doing this, they are following their own warped self-interest. This art exhibit is just another opportunity to attack President Bush.

The far left does not see jihad as an American problem. They decry the overseas deaths (sometimes even sincerely), but obsess over the domestic threat of conservative politics and traditional morality. Therefore they act as defacto allies for the jihadis in defeating the political and military will of America.

They think the jihadis will not follow us home (therefore treating 9-11 as a unique criminal event). Nothing we can say — nothing we on the right have said for the past six years — will change their minds. They will continue to “speak truth to power” until red-state America shuts up. By the time these folks recognize their real enemies, it will be too late.

Also, depicting Abu Ghraib is a shot at our Soldiers without whom your little “art” expo would not exist. Your freedom of expression is defended not by arteesssts, but by Soldiers who fight in your stead. Put *that* in your bong and smoke it.

I want my money’s worth, by damn.

Idiot Tool.

Imagine the expressions of the little lib darlings as they welcome the misunderstood jihadists into their community and then wonder why they are being lead away in chains and irons. And then suddenly Abu Ghraib looks like a picnic….

which is before the Taliban memorial.

The one in Pennsylvania, or Arizona?

Abu Ghraib art exhibit to open in Berkeley later this monthAllahpundit On January 29th. It’ll showcase 50 paintings by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who took a hard look at Iraq two years ago and decided that of the various bombings,…

Suggestion for exhibit I s/b “Barbarity I” and for II “Barbarity II”.

The 73-year-old Botero said his paintings are inspired more by written descriptions of the abuse than by the photographs. The paintings are each titled simply “Abu Ghraib,” followed by a number from 1-50 to distinguish them.

This will be his justification for going over the top and “interpreting” what he believed happened on to the canvas.

Botero said his intent is to emblazon the images upon the consciousness of the world.

“No one would have ever remembered the horrors of Guernica if not for the painting,” said Botero, referring to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece “Guernica,” which depicts the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War.

Thank you Botero, because I frankly had never even heard of Abu Ghraib. I mean, it wasn’t like the NY Times had 45 consecutive days with front page stories, and it’s not like it’s not brought up on an almost daily basis to this day, despite the fact that the “abuses” don’t come anywhere close to the mass murder and torture of the Saddam Hussein regime.

Well, I was actually going to link everyone to video of people having their hands and tongues chopped off and being pushed off the roofs of buildings by Saddam’s goons, however it appears the censoring libs at YouTube have been up to their old tricks again.

What’s next…the Guantanamo exhibit?

JetBoy on January 16, 2007 at 6:13 PM

Right next to the “secret prisons” exhibit, which is before the Taliban memorial.

Colombian artist huh?

*snort*snort*

“No one would have ever remembered the horrors of Guernica if not for the painting,” said Botero, referring to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece “Guernica,” which depicts the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War.

I’ve seen Guernica. I’ve been to Picasso exhibits, and have been a Picasso fan for a long time. You, Sir, are no Picasso.