[silverleaf]

"This is not the war of yesteryear, with relatives waving our boys off on ships and losing all contact beyond a weekly mail drop. These are young people who, via the Internet, are reminded daily of the comfort and safety of home and are quick to express their desire to return to their families. I want to ask many of them their feelings about our occupation in Iraq, and some express thoughts on this issue without being asked. And their thoughts represent all sides of the debate. But one has to be mindful that these are young people who have lost friends to battle, and girlfriends, boyfriends, wives and husbands to distance. One wouldn't expect them to yield easily to the notion that perhaps the United States should not have sent them in the first place"

Poor Sean! In other words- almost to a man(and woman) those zit-faced GI's are committed to doing the job they were sent to do in Iraq.

D'OH!

[A Simple Soldier]

I'll bet a paycheck that at least one soldier called him Spicolli and did an impromptu impersonation of some of the funnier lines from Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

[hobbes1]

Hey, I say give the guy a break...At least, even though he was against the war, he is accurately portraying the events going on over there, unlike say, The Nine Dwarves.... However, One wonders considering that there is at least a glimmer of intelligence in the writing, how he can square his opposition with the war, including the statement you highlighted with his observation that.... If the Hussein regime could be credited with anything, it would be with keeping obsessively complete records of the atrocities the regime itself committed. (Pol Pot and Hitler shared this habit.) ...

At least now I'll feel less guilty watching his films....(though the Theater is still O.U.T.)