Sick propaganda for a political fiction

Rating: 2/10 (7 October 2014)

I won't address the many aesthetic flaws in this film amply recounted in the many 1-star reviews below, but will focus on the content over the form, and how it made me sick:
I'm sure Ms. Bigelow thought she was making a heroic film about American spooks and servicemen seeking justice for 9/11, but it's a symptom of American "exceptionalism" and lack of self-consciousness that the "heroes" of this saga were distinctly unsympathetic and their methods repulsive -- as another reviewer and a friend of mine stated, they were actually cheering for al-Qaeda by mid way through film.
The first third virtually revels in the torture scenes with not a shred of self doubt or moral scruple, and later we have a CIA agent whining about "losing the detainee program" -- the script might as well have been penned at Langley by CIA hacks as justification for their crimes. As we now know from the more or less redacted Senate hearings into this despicable episode, virtually no actionable intelligence was obtained from all the water boarding and other repulsive abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the many black sites. But according to Zero Dark Thirty, waterboarding was crucial to our never-ending counterterrorism campaign.
The Abbottabab raid depicts innocent women and men being mowed down by the SEALs, and the denouement is the implausibly hyperbolic lead character finally peering into a body bag to view her trophy -- I was left with a feeling of disgust. This was truly an UGLY film, it was definitely propagandistic, and this is the face America now proudly and shamelessly shows to the world, garlanded with a bevy of award nominations.
For the naive simpletons out there (about 60-70% of the American populace), even renowned journalist Seymour Hersh believes the official account of the bin Laden raid was a complete fiction. They dumped the body in the ocean and we can't even see the photos of bin Laden's corpse because it would be too offensive to Muslims? If you believe that, you're already a mindless drone living in Orwell's dystopic USA. Hollywood has merged with Washington, and this film was a bad pseudo-documentary about a political fiction hatched to continue fueling the bogus "War on Terror" that was spawned by another complete fiction -- 9/11 itself.