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The guys in the video are somewhat naive and boorish at the start, and the documentary lacks substance on the analysis front. But it does hit home very effectively, and I recommend watching it. After filming the documentary, they returned to the US and set up a nonprofit (as they state in the credits - check out their site for more info.)
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I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you’re all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you’re right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you’ve been there, you don’t know a god damn thing about it. It you haven’t been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are “Supporting our Troops” and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I’ll tell you why. I’m a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he’s coming home in a box.
You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.
And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don’t want us there. They’re not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they’re pissed off. We didn’t help them and we’re not helping them now. That’s what our soldiers are dying for.
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This is interesting / scary.
On November 29, the Washington Post carried an op-ed by Nawaf Obaid, an advisor to the Saudi government…
“Stepping Into Iraq” starts by reminding President Bush that in February 2003 the Saudi Foreign Minister had warned him that if the US removed Saddam Hussein by force he would only be solving one problem by creating five more.
Obaid goes on to point out that had the President followed the Foreign Minister’s advice, Iraq would not now be facing “full blown civil war and disintegration.”
The thrust of the message, however, is a thinly veiled warning to the US not to walk away from Iraq. Obaid quotes the Saudi Ambassador who said last month: “Since America came into Iraq uninvited, it should not leave Iraq uninvited.” And Obaid adds, “If it does, one of the first consequences will be massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis.”
…The critical part of all this is just what the Saudis are going to do in the face of an American threat to withdraw. The op-ed lists three options. First Riyadh could give their Sunni kinsmen (money, arms and logistical support…
The second Saudi option would be to fund, equip, and train new “Sunni brigades” to offset the Shiite militias. This of course would formalize the “civil war.”
Now, however, we get to the Saudis’ third option as suggested by Obaid— oil. “King Abdullah may decide to strangle Iranian funding of the militias through oil policy.” “If the Saudis boosted production and cut the price of oil in half, the kingdom could still finance its current spending. But it would be devastating to Iran, which is facing economic difficulties even with today’s high prices.”
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