I haven't seen it, and probably won't, but I heard a film reviewer the other day saying that Eastwood is taking some heat (from whom is not clear) because the movie bashes Bush, by making the point that we can't trust the gubmint.
The reason we can't trust the gubmint, is because there were two flag raisings and only the second one was photographed, and the government knew it all along but hid that fact - or something along those paranoid lines. Not only hid it, but, horrors, they raised war bond money by having the three flag-raising survivors tour the nation for war bonds. It's so dastardly, I can hardly believe it!
SuzyQue,
At the time of Iwo it was a Democratic Administration.
BTW - I already knew about the flag raisings at Iwo Jima - had read about it long ago, so maybe I'm not properly impressed with dastardliness.
And, they were heroes. No question.