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I finally got around to seeing a DVD of the movie, Syriana, starring George Clooney. Most of you know that it is about a greedy American oil company doing dirty deeds to regain access to certain Mideast oil concessions, and the film is definitely a hit job on American covert agencies and on American companies. It’s only a movie, a fantasy, but I'm getting very tired of the anti-war, anti-American antics of actors like Clooney and directors like Syriana's director, Stephen Gaghan

Matt Damon and George Clooney come back together for political thriller Matt Damon and George Clooney, who are currently working together on Steven Soder-bergh's Ocean's Eleven sequel - Ocean's Twelve, will reteam for the Stephen Gaghan-helmed political thriller Syriana. In addition, Amanda Peet is in final negotiations to join the project. Set up at Warner Bros., Clooney and Soderbergh's studio-based Section Eight will produce the project with shooting slated to begin during the summer. Gaghan adapted the script, which is loosely based on the Robert Baer non-fiction novel See No Evil: The True Story of a Foot Soldier in the...