Comments on: Relax: “Zero Dark Thirty” is only a movie

By: The Rogue Tomato

The Rogue Tomato — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:07:41 +0000

SEAL Team Four commander in Afghanistan 'commits suicide'

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:42:58 +0000

Egomaniacal tell-all SEALs, tell-all political hacks, and Hollyweird prima donnas conspire to produce an artistic masterpiece.

Nah, can’t see anything wrong with this picture.

Don’t worry, if you miss this one “Lone Survivor” starring Mark Wahlberg(!), Eric Bana(!!), and directed by the man who brought you the clusterfark called “Battleship”(!*99) is coming next.

By: Kenosha Kid

Kenosha Kid — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:55:28 +0000

Hobbits, on the other hand, are real.

By: Kaptain Amerika

Kaptain Amerika — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:38:59 +0000

That claims to be a true story and that has White House approval and top secret security clearance.

By: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

ThePrimordialOrderedPair — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:01:13 +0000

This idiot ignores all of the tons of bombs we dropped on German cities…

Del Dolemonte on December 29, 2012 at 6:46 PM

Lefties like to just make up their own private histories since their world views are always shattered whenever they scrape with reality even a little. They know even less about war than they do about economics.

I also love how they claim that information gathered by “torture” is unreliable. This is a real screamer, especially coming from a leftie who lies out of his mouth as a matter of course. The only way to get any sort of truth out a leftie is by threat of force. They are the lowest of the low. No wonder they have such self-hate. It’s the only reasonable position they hold.

By: vityas

vityas — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:58:11 +0000

So was Birth of a Nation.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:54:01 +0000

If he thinks we didn’t use coercive techniques on prisoners in WW2 then his brain has been infected by his own shiite.

By: Stoic Patriot

Stoic Patriot — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:51:41 +0000

At the end of the day, though, “Zero Dark Thirty” is a movie. Made by Hollywood. To be dramatic. That this is being debated and that intelligence leaders are being drawn into that debate is as revealing as it should be troubling.

The real issue here is that the movie shows us being not a bunch of nice and happy people with terrorists, and that we have the nerve to splash some water on their faces. According to at least 3 U.S. Senators, that’s grounds for war crime tribunals.

By: ShainS

ShainS — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:48:11 +0000

Surely what happened before and after those fateful hours in Benghazi is of national importance and our political processes need to adjudicate these questions. But at their heart these are now more political and policy debates than intelligence issues.

Bullsh!t! What was Ambassador Stevens doing in Benghazi (at a CIA safe house and NOT a "consulate") at the time of the attack? /On behalf of Seven Percent Solution ...

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:46:48 +0000

Low ~~Information~~ Intelligence CNN User checks in at the comments:

Yes it is only a movie and movies are not always accurate. But here is some truth. Bin Laden is DEAD and GM is ALIVE! President Obama WON and Mitt Romney LOST! I love America!!!!!!!!!

More?

More Americans will see this movie than read this or any other column. This shapes history for the time being like Birth of a Nation did for the KKK. Ultimately, history will rectify the wrongs and we'll see how repugnant we were at this point of our civilization. We fought the Nazis and didn't torture, and information gathered from torture is extremely unreliable. Go back to your 24 shows.

This idiot ignores all of the tons of bombs we dropped on German cities... And one more.

In general, although I'm not sure when and where coercive techniques might be morally justified or not, I think that starting the War in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of Iraqis who had nothing to do with 9/11, along with 4000 Americans, while Bin Laden got away in another country WAS immoral. By showing the War in Iraq and now American torture in a possible positive light, I think the director Bigelow has treaded on very questionable moral ground.