His generation is a product of a vastly inferior educational system than the one that you and I were exposed to. They just don't teach real history anymore.
Craig Winneker:
Posted on 05/11/2005 6:39:05 AM PDT by EarthStomper
The annoying part about all this is that the Bush quote, "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists" has reasoning behind it that is specific to the War on Terror. And I doubt few people would disagree with that reasoning. A country that has terrorists living there, plotting against the United States or our allies, must do something about it. They can't just sit back and say "we don't have a beef with the United States or Al Quida, we're just minding our own business." The President was smart enough to know that certain countries were going to harbor terrorists giving that reasoning.
Funny how the "enlightened" left can't seem to gather the depth behind that statement.
After I read this the first time (somewhere else), I realized that Jedi Knights were democrats. Since then I have been rooting for Darth Vader and the Emperor.
Darth Vader was a hero of my youth. Especially how he dealt with those asinine generals.
Nuking Holy City #3 might tick off the Israelis.
Nuking Qom Iran is going piss off the Israelis ?
Especially since the Jedi themselves dead in absolutes.
If you choose to look at the movie w bush as the promoter of democracy, it also works and you'll enjoy it more
His generation is a product of a vastly inferior educational system than the one that you and I were exposed to. They just don't teach real history anymore.
Craig Winneker:
Was Reagan a good President? This is a yes or no question, unless you're one of those pansies that thinks that "Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes." Was Reagan a good President? I challenge you to answer yes or no.
I recently completed reading a new book about Major Dick Winters, called Biggest Brother, the story of Major Winters and his personal life and WWII and Band of Brothers fame. During the making of the mini-series, one of the things that Major Winters OBJECTED to was the use of the "F" word so much in the movie. He says in the book, they did not use that word back then like it is used now. Then it was considered the most obscene profane you could use.
So, it just goes to show how movies have become. If they do not show boobs, butt, sex, violence, and use the "F" word 9,000 times per paragraph, then it does not fit.
I like action movies, but I do not go to the movies to see XXX-rated sex scenes in a war movie, or a cowboy movie.
Man where the heck is John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry when you need them. (On DVD and video, that is what I watch now!!!!! Oldies!!!)
Well, not that I want to do spoilers, but you do get to see him in the movie, albeit briefly.
Although, come to think of it, with the rate at which commanding officers have their tracheas crushed under Darth Vader, it's amazing Tarkin lasted 20 or so years under his command.
Actually by Star Wars Episode 4, Tarkin was a Grand Admiral, the Empirial Naval equivalent of a Apprentice Sith Lord. Vader and Tarkin were basically the same rank in different parts of the Empirial Military. That meeting in Episode 4 in the Death Star with Vader, Tarkin and those officers were basically a meeting of the heads of the Empirial Military.
That's why Vader did not choke that officer to death during the meeting when had the chance and Tarkin had to remind Vader to control his anger.
That's great to hear. What part of the movie should I look for him to be in?
Pretty much the very end.
Thank you. I probably won't see the movie until a week or too from now, after the crowds have left.
Not particularly. But nuking Jerusalem, normally considered the third most holy Muslim city, surely would.
Why can't people stop reading anti-Bush polemics into this film? These lines she cites can be interpreted many different ways. Palpatine as Karl Rove? I didn't pay it any mind, and it had zero impact on a fine film.
"Funny, I thought it was sold as the spectre of a mushroom cloud hanging over lower Manhattan"
Funny, but you thought wrong. There were several reasons why we went in, all listed by Bush in his speeches - funny, but you weren't paying attention then either. The media are the one's who made WMD the centerpiece of the liberation of Iraq, not Bush. Funny how easily they influenced you.
"funny how a couple of years (and no WMDs) re-defines a mission."
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Iraq had a WMD program. You're not going to find 100 barrels of Sarin in a warehouse - it just doesn't work that way. Stocks were destroyed or shipped to Syria - as per SOP (see Operation Sarindar). All that remained was enough research material to start-up operations after the West left. And we found that. Oh yeah, we broke up a Lybian nuclear black market along the way.
"Syria hasn't thrown in anything BTW."
More ignorance. Lebaneese protestors, emboldened by what they saw from the Iraqi elections, threw the Syrians out of Lebanon. You could agree thats a good thing, but like most leftists, you don't care about Afgani's, Iraqi's, or the Arab world in general. You would easily damn them all to Saddam's torture chambers and rape rooms if it meant opportunity to make Bush and America look bad.
What do you expect from a man [Lucas] who's life work is the plagerism of other's ideas and concepts?
Back on topic: I'm hearing alot of complaints about acting. The key subplot in this episode was the conversion of Skywalker to Vader - everyone I talk to says the actor was not up to such a challenging role.
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