An outstanding underrated anti-war movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2018)

*** spoilers alert***
War is totally useless, and is boring, too.
As a pacifist, antimilitarist, conscientious objector in 1976 I loved this movie much more than Full Metal Jacket (spoofed during the first minutes).
Boredom, heat, blinding light, friendly fire (23% of US casualties during the First Iraqi war), heavy jokes between brothers in Arms, civil casualties, oil well burning ("Earth is crying"), war finished without a shot.
This movie delivers a very clever portrait of the absurdity of (all) war.
Beautiful photography, very fine acting (loved Foxx, as usual), etc so why the less than 6/10 Metacritic score?
IMO the critics were heavily biased in 2005 because of the SECOND Gulf War.
US invaded Iraq just a two years before this movie was released and people didn't want to see how useless can be going to a war that nobody (but G.W.Bush and friends) wanted.
Iraqi casualties were 100,000-150,000 if we count only violent deaths. Over one million if we count also embargo aftermath.
With Great Power Comes Great responsiblities... and a very huge amount of money. Very huge.
Americans dead on September 11 are widely revenged.
US won. Game Over.