Desert Shield and Desert Storm

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2005)

This seems to be a good explanation of the anarchy of war, especially in the 1990 to 1991 period depicted. The irony is that Saddam Hussein is now seen by many as a harmless dictator, who never deserved persecution by the United States military and who never possessed weapons of mass destruction, according to several leaders of the Democratic Party. This film, however, shows the real Saddam, the user of nerve gas against defenseless Kurds and the worst environmental polluter of all time, in regard to his gratuitous setting of oil wells on fire in 1991. So, this is a good word for simple truth, instead of the lies and distortions offered by Howard Dean and his ilk. And, the Marines, as depicted by Jake Gyllenhaal and his healthy band of brothers, are simply the well-trained instruments of retribution against Saddam's terrorism. All of the ugliness and the beauty of Marine training and the war itself are described, for those contemplating life among these proud warriors. And, these Marines can be especially proud of defeating the worst war criminal of all time, Saddam Hussein.