After the astounding success of every other anti-Iraq war movie, like Redacted, Universal Studios saw fit to make the most blatantly anti-American movie in history. I’d warn you that there are spoilers in this post, but does it really make a difference? It’s not like anyone is going to see this abomination anyhow. Green Zone, staring Matt Damon, is a move about WMD and the Iraq war – or at least a Michael Moore-esque fantasy about the war. In this telling of the story a lone ‘neo-con’ who worked in the Pentagon cooked up all the ‘false’ information, leading the United States into war – that’s right, one person fooled the entire country. The high point of the movie was a scene where the audience was meant to cheer Sunni officers shooting down an American helicopter full of of soldiers that reported to the evil Pentagon official. Other gems included changing the Judith Miller character from a New York Times reporter to a Wall Street Journal reporter, in an effort to forget that it was actually the Times that published all the WMD information. Other parts of the movie showed the ‘hero,’ played by Damon, breaking the chain of command, endangering his fellow servicemen and working with members of Saddam’s army. In his review of Green Zone in the New York Post Kyle Smith summarizes the film this way:

Even for Hollywood, “Green Zone” is dumbfoundingly brazen in its effort to rewrite the facts. As any reasonably informed person knows, many intelligence services (including the French, German, Chinese, Russian and British) believed Iraq had WMDs. And the CIA (which along with Chief Miller is a hero of “Green Zone”) was among them. Plus, such intel reports predated the Bush administration — and Saddam’s refusal to allow the UN weapons inspectors to finish their work gave us every reason to think he was hiding something and sealed his fate.

It’s one thing to make a fantasy film laced with snarky jibes at the United States and its military. It’s of another order entirely for an American studio (Universal, a unit of GE) to perpetrate, during an ongoing war, such vicious anti-American lies disguised as cheap entertainment…

“Green Zone” isn’t cinema. It’s slander. It will go down in history as one of the most egregiously anti-American movies ever released by a major studio.

Thankfully, Green Zone has been a colossal commercial failure. The movie cost Universal at least $130 million to make, as well as a $100 million advertising budget. In its opening weekend it took in a whopping $14.5 million. Universal does not even expect to recoup half of the money blown on this project. In addition, the idiots that green-lighted this garbage have been axed. Here’s an idea: how about a war movie that depicts us the good-guys?

The good ol’ days – when war movies were great and actors loved their country