Wow! Anybody else watch Over There last night? Within a few minutes, the Sarge calls their position in Iraq a "shithole" and it was obvious that Iraq was Vietnam all over again. A war troops are not allowed to really fight, and so a war we can never win.
After the battle, in which the Iraqi fighters would rather attack and lose their lives than give up to the Americans and go to Abu Ghraib, the Americans stand over the dead enemy with a look of respect and wonder. One fighter get the top half of his body vaporized by a bazooka--and the legs keep walking by themselves.
Extremely graphic--unlike the sanitized war with no American wounded or dead that we see on the TV news.
Later, the video messages home by the soldiers and the screams of an American soldier who got his leg blown off are heart-stopping. The script was excellent as was the acting.
They might as well call this show "Iraqnam".
I really believe that the show will gain a big audience, that men in red states will watch it, that it will hurt recruitment a lot, that parents will make their teenage sons watch it, and that the WH and the Pentagon will HATE IT.
It's better than 87 anti-war demonstrations all at once in terms of creating emotion against Bush and against the Blood for Oil war in Iraq (even though that is never mentioned).
Then after that we watched The Daily Show. What is happening to television?!?!