quote: the movie's obsessive plot

What in the world is an obsessive plot?

How about complex, tortuous, tangled, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, Byzantine, involved....?

But obsessive???

Regardless. I obsessively await this film. It would be nice to see a movie that engages the audience.

I personaly blame the American press for the present state of affairs, and for the press to acknowledge Colbert's performance as being proper, funny, apropos, etc., is of course to acknowledge their own complicity in the death of innocent Americans and Iraqis. How dare anyone imply that they only act as glorified stenographers.

It's how smug they are that is really offensive. These elitists will never accept responsibility for their actions or non-actions.

Thank god for the internet, Salon, bloggers, etc., etc.. We are no longer being held hostage to propagandists.

The killing machine (paid part and parcel by the US) unleashed - to no avail. It hasn't worked to solve the problem before so what makes anyone think that it'll work now. You will always find a patriot to fend off foreign invaders, to free his land from occupiers. Get rid of one, and shortly another pops up - I thnk they're called freedom fighters.

Watching the present events only proves that the Israeli nation is amoral. I am sick and tired of the Israelis taking the moral high ground. They are responsible for their own predicament.

This whole situation disgusts me.

This was neither justice nor revenge. This act of murder speaks volumes of the US and its peoples.

theFred

Glenda Jackson, the former Labour minister and prominent critic of the war, said ... "We've gone in there and turned that country into total, unmitigated mayhem so we could show the Middle East that there is a better way of conducting civil liberties. I don't think this is a particularly good message."

Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, by contrast had issued his own personal reaction to the execution, saying: "Saddam Hussein's death does not vindicate in any way the ill-conceived and disastrous decision to invade Iraq. His execution does not make an illegal war legal, any more than it will put an end to the violence and destruction."

All but the most ghoulish war supporters have condemned Saddam's disgraceful execution, which resembled a revenge killing more than it did a dignified judicial process.

A dignified murder...

Hmmm....

they're still trying to figure out how many people were wounded and possibly killed. But obviously, that would be against the law and something that someone should be held accountable for. "

Is not the one who is accountable for this carnage dead? Now what?

This boggles the mind. I guess it's me.

Miss Walsh, people are being killed needlessly that is what's over the top.

Although you might clarify exactly what it is that you consider to be over the top, that it is a "shameful, bipartisan betrayal," or the phrase "...this war of lies?"?

tsk, tsk...

Nothing new here. The same things are being repeated over and over again, ad nauseum... Let's blame Tenet or Perle or Wolfwitz or Cheney or Powell or ....

When in fact the body that bears the greatest responsibility for this travesty, besides the American people, is the American press - that great protector of truth and freedom - with their embedded reporters cheerleading the killing machine on. Admit it, during those days of "shock and awe" how many of you had this feeling of pride and power and strength and self righteousness. How many of you bought into this WMD BS even though you knew in your hearts that you were being sold a bill of goods - no doubt the vast majority. And how many of you were afraid to speak out because you were afraid of being labeled unpatriotic? Head in the sand syndrome?

With all the illegal activities being conducted by your president and vice-president and other high members of the administration of the greatest republic this world has seen, why is there no movement for impeachment? Afraid of being labeled unpatriotic? Where is this land of laws that we keep hearing about? Where is this perfect democracy that is a beacon to the world? Head in the sand syndrome?

The same old same old...

Let's see who could we blame?

She said:

Since when did any nation -- even America, which I love -- become...

I ask:

Amazing isn't it?

Why is it that when these wingnuts decide to criticize America they have to first express their undying love and admiration for America? Who or what are they afraid of? Who is it that they feel they have to impress?

Oh oh... watch out, here come the PATRIOT police....

Rude, gauche, intellectually dishonest, cowardly...

Mr. Bollinger is pandering to the neo-cons, the far right. Like so many Americans he's afraid of the patriot police.