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By: Iraq: The Forgotten War «

Iraq: The Forgotten War « — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:00:45 +0000

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By: daesleeper

daesleeper — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:47:35 +0000

Limited release, which means another movie that only plays in the cities. So what’s the point if we can’t see it?

rightwingprof on June 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Buy the DVD. It’s about the price of two tix to the theater, no?

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Soraya “torture porn”? Hardly

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Soraya “torture porn”? Hardly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:46:05 +0000

[...] of The Stoning of Soraya M, oddly juxtaposed with one from the same writer for also-excellent The Hurt Locker. Newsbusters noticed it as well, as did Mitch Berg. Stephen Holden calls the painful and [...]

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:54:34 +0000

Limited release, which means another movie that only plays in the cities. So what’s the point if we can’t see it?

By: jerrytbg

jerrytbg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:37:45 +0000

I can’t believe there are actually two movies I want to see on the big screen and not wait for the DVD…
Could hollywood be improving… nah just a fluke…

By: gatorbait

gatorbait — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:35:40 +0000

Being an EOD man was, and so remains, the best thing I have ever done in my life , next to being a dad . GOD, it was the best! I wish every day I was still doing it .

By: Bomb Doctor

Bomb Doctor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:21:22 +0000

saltyrover
“I’m getting ready for my 3rd deployment also. I head out in Sep for Iraq….again. I find movies like this to be complete BS. The AF (my branch), NAVY, and Marines are carrying a huge load over there especially the EOD teams.”

“Navy”?

You’re a fraud. The Navy provides less bodies to the JTF than the Marines. BTW, the Navy has 1200+ techs. The Marines has ~400.

The AF and the Army provide the bulk of all EOD teams in the AOR.

By: Bomb Doctor

Bomb Doctor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:16:50 +0000

I retired in 2005. 24 years as an EOD Tech.

Michael Moore could have made a better movie about EOD.

By: Eyvonne

Eyvonne — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:48:35 +0000

That looks fantastic! Maybe people will appreciate our military more after this?????

By: Reaps

Reaps — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:55:34 +0000

Terrible title, but looks interesting. Will see if it even gets released over here, though..

By: Hog Wild

Hog Wild — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:39:21 +0000

kwbrownie2003 on June 28, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Semper Fi bro’, stay safe.

By: Ugly

Ugly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:44:03 +0000

saltyrover on June 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM

Thank you for your service to this country. I mean that.

By: saltyrover

saltyrover — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:42:35 +0000

I’m getting ready for my 3rd Iraq tour and I don’t have the stones to do what those EOD guys do.

kwbrownie2003 on June 28, 2009 at 12:05 PM

I’m getting ready for my 3rd deployment also. I head out in Sep for Iraq….again. I find movies like this to be complete BS. The AF (my branch), NAVY, and Marines are carrying a huge load over there especially the EOD teams. In the AF we used to call working for the ARMY in-lieu-of taskings but some 90lb cranium at the Pentagon decided we need to call these JET taskings….another stupid acronym that basically means the NAVY and the AF are picking up the slack for the over-tasked, over-worked ARMY. Intel, Comm, Civil Engineering, and EOD are pulling 1:1 deployments to fill ARMY jobs that the ARMY just can’t fill with AD, ANG, or Reserves. So these movies completely ignore the work and sacrifice of the NAVY, AF, USMC, and Coast Gaurd that are picking up the huge slack for the ARMY.

Don’t take this a slap on the ARMY, it is not, there are some fantastic men and women wearing ACUs. I’ve worked with the ARMY many times and they are stretched way too thin for their force structure and our current commitments.

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:39:34 +0000

Johan Klaus says:

Watch “Bravo Two Zero”.

Read the book before the flick came out. Sean Bean was great, as always. What was most interesting about the film was the multiple appearances of ‘Murphy’s Law’ and how the SAS troops adapted, ‘Charlie Mike’d and endured even when captured.

Jack.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:33:42 +0000

My heart is still pounding just from this trailer. – Katy

Agree! I still have butterflies in my stomach from watching him cut those wires!

When I was in the A.F. I was a munitions handler (AMMO!) and when smething went wrong, we left the building … as we were leaving, the EOD guys were going INTO the building! Much respect to those brave men!

By: spmat

spmat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:30 +0000

BJ* on June 28, 2009 at 2:35 PM

Is war a drug?

By: Ugly

Ugly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:48:53 +0000

This is not a chick flick.

freeus on June 28, 2009 at 4:25 PM

I guess it depends on the chick ;)

I watched it with my ex-wife & son, and she (a diehard lefty) and he (a young conservative) loved it.

By: Jim708

Jim708 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:37:45 +0000

A sailor I did some training with a decade or so back was just announced as recieving the Star of Courage (Canadian medal) for dismantling an IED with only his bayonet. All his EOD gear was destroyed after another IED had destroyed the vehicle he was riding in.

By: freeus

freeus — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:25:47 +0000

I think you’ll particularly like the scene where they’re sniping jihadis. This is not a chick flick.

DarkCurrent on June 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM

Says who? What’s more of a turn on than dead terrorists? Hehe. War porn works for both men and women.

Kidding….maybe…only the hubby knows for sure. ;-)

Renwaa on June 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM

+1 LOL! Dittos!

By: Ugly

Ugly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:22:55 +0000

*about this movie

By: Ugly

Ugly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:22:36 +0000

Thanks for the review, Ed. I’ve posted here before about movie. I thought it awesome.

By: Renwaa

Renwaa — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:14 +0000

I think you’ll particularly like the scene where they’re sniping jihadis. This is not a chick flick.

DarkCurrent on June 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM

Says who? What’s more of a turn on than dead terrorists? Hehe. War porn works for both men and women.

Kidding….maybe…only the hubby knows for sure. ;-)

By: dartagnansblade

dartagnansblade — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:47:10 +0000

My nephew Michael, http://theharderwrong.blogspot.com/ is an engineer and in his first tour did exactly what these guys did. Seek and destroy IEDs. He now is in his second tour and works as an “incident investigator” Going to bombings and what not to investigate and hopefully kill a few remaining bad guys. He saw the Iranian markings and wonders why we permit it. The clown that is Fox’s hotshot says Obama must be careful with Iran because they may cause trouble in Iraq and Afghanistan…..HUH?
We should sit on our hands and keep mum for fear of what a turd despot in a crappy, unsophisticated country like Iran may do to us?

WHAT THE HELL IS MIKE FIGHTING FOR?

Check out this little piece he wrote….pretty harrowing to say the least…

http://theharderwrong.blogspot.com/2009/05/illusion-of-control.html

Jesus, what country am I living in?

By: ksm

ksm — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:06:08 +0000

“Anti war”? No sane person is pro-war, but some of us are wise enough to realize that sometimes the alternatives to war are even worse – slavery or even death. Sometimes war IS the answer.

“Except for ending slavery, communism and fascism, war never accomplished anything”

By: BJ*

BJ* — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:35:26 +0000

The Big Hollywood review is really poorly written, and poorly thought out. Seems like he went in with a prejudice and found it no matter what. I’d trust Ed’s judgment – he nails it.