The poor Iraqi people

Rating: 5/10 (13 September 2006)

After reading the reviews of this film, I decided to watch this film last night. However, it only re-enforced what I already though about the 'honourable US marine core'. The film was packed full of crude language from the start, and packed full of scenes of vulgar behaviour. It's true to say that these people are recruited from the garbage of US society, given some training (including brain washing), and then issued with guns. The thought of this frightening, especially for the poor people of Iraq, who are no doubt on the receiving end of 'payback', as one marine called it.
I think that the most shocking scene of the film was the Marines watching 'Apocalypse now', and humming along with Wagner's 'ride of the Valkyries'. I suppose, most of them were too illiterate to realize what they were actually doing, as Wagner's music was the official music of the 3rd Reich, promoting a mixture of homosexuality and white supremacy - it was interesting to watch the black soldiers. Watching them cheer as a Vietnamese village was destroyed, and the people murdered was sickening, and not really something that any normal person would cheer about. Although, I wonder if members of Al-Qaeda watching the attack on the WTC, would do the same. Perhaps both parties are the same type of people ?
I commend the producers of this film (as it should be a wake up call to the US public), and thank god that I live in Europe and never have to meet people like this.