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Friday, September 14, 2007 12:00 AM

"In the Valley of Elah"

The first in a rush of fall films that deal with the Iraq war raises a tough question: Is it too soon to make sense of a war we're still fighting?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:04 PM

    Victims

    "So people serving in the military, or in our current situation very likely the reserves, some of them on their third or fourth deployment, and the families who lose them, are equivalent to slave owners? The 3700 plus soldiers killed are victims or military adventurism?"

    Yes, they are the victims, not only of the actual war mongers but of our use of them as surrogates for our own "suffering" while we walk around the malls not even thinking about them.

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