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But Jordan said that withholding the film from release is an infringement on free speech. "That to me is anti-American," he said. "That to me is unpatriotic."

You are an Australian citizen. Sod what you think, you aren't an American. Sell your "I loathe the military" sentiments elsewhere.

Disney is a publicly traded company and this is (still) a capitalist nation. Disney owes it to the investors to be sensitive to market backlash against releasing offending product. This movie is so 9-10-2001.

They had little to gain from fighting Native Americans, Jordan said, and neither did the troops stationed in West Germany during the latter days of the Cold War.

(1) The Plains Indians were slaveowners, slavetraders and slavedealers just like the white man. Plenty of Indians fought for the Confederacy as well. The Buffalo Soldiers had their own reasons for fighting.

(2) Would US troops have gained from the Communists overrunning Western Europe?

If this man wasn't working in Hollywood, he wouldn't be smart enough to hold down a dishwashing job in the real world.

Thats funny ..Hollywood has been using Vietnam vets as foils and villians for the last
thirty years

With rare exceptions they made a few heros or at least marginal heros

You can watch many shows where the drunk the doper the homeless guy is wearing a jungle fatigue shirt or Vietnam era field jacket and the bush hat...a little subtle sign that the villian or villans or bum is a VietVet

The new guys dont like it...and I dont blame them...

But I always new who my friends were and werent and dont really give a rats patut what anyone else thinks anymore...

Specially those non hackers, wannabes, phony vets and cowardly draft dodgers (who masquerade as peace lovers) and the whorse they rode in on

'This was during peacetime' "Soldiers" is based on a work of fiction, but Jordan said, "There's nothing in it that didn't happen."

This is the real hypocricy. He's presenting the movie as a true story, when it's nothing but an amalgamation of rumors, innuendo, and outright lies. But as long as it drags down the military, it's fair game for the idiots in Hollyweird.

The director said O'Connor was making a thematic link between the Buffalo Soldiers of the 1800s and the troops depicted in the book. "He looked at it and said, 'The real Buffalo Soldiers were freed slaves employed by the Union Army to go and basically wipe out Indians.' "

They had little to gain from fighting Native Americans, Jordan said, and neither did the troops stationed in West Germany during the latter days of the Cold War.

US troops stationed in West Germany were fighting Indians?

What a pile of revisionist crap.

"I never meant to upset anyone," said the Australian director

But Jordan said that withholding the film from release is an infringement on free speech. "That to me is anti-American," he said. "That to me is unpatriotic."

Shut up, you GD civilian foreigner. The only reason anyone has any rights in this country is because people like those your movie disparages served this country. What did you do in the Cold War, asshole?

"All you have to do is look at official Pentagon documents about U.S. military deaths between 1975 and 1990," Jordan said. "There were between 25 and 30 murders on these bases every year. ... There were 100 suicides every year. And this was during peacetime."

Bullsh*t. There were not 25-30 murders per year in the entire U.S. military, let alone in U.S. Army posts in Germany. In fact, on those rare occasions when there was a murder, it was a big deal on AFN and in Stars and Stripes. And it is important to remember that the U.S. military during the Cold War numbered approximately 1.5 million troops, and, while crimes did sometimes occur, they occurred at a far lower frequency than in the general U.S. population.

He said that time period is a bad patch in the Army's history and that the movie shows part of a crackdown on those problems.

Actually, the "bad patch" was from Vietnam until around 1981 or so. Around that time, commanders cracked down on drugs - and the main problem was off-duty use of marijuana - and it was pretty much eradicated by the mid-1980s.

From James Bowman's review:

Though it may have been bad for the filmmakers, there is at least one good thing for audiences in the fact that Miramax had to postpone the release of Buffalo Soldiers after the events of September 11th, 2001 — and then again the following spring when focus groups tested badly, and then again earlier this year as the Iraq war loomed. For two years ago it would have been just a routine example of Hollywood’s bashing of the American armed forces and military life in general. Now it is a perfect time capsule from a vanished era of movie history.
You will never again see a picture quite as bad as this one, or at least not bad in the same way.