Furious Indifference.

I'm pretty sure that short-term memory and/or amnesia has erased the fact that Iran was moving toward democratization and reform in 2000 and 2001 and even for a while after the terrorist attacks of September 11 th , 2001 and actually offered assistance against the Taliban and Al Qaeda (Iranians are Shia and Persian, not Sunni and Arab); nonetheless, since Iran has been the obsession of the neocons (see: PNAC /Shah of Iran/CIA/British Petroleum/MI6, ad nausea) for the last 50 years or more, it was no matter. Even with hours and hours of footage of average Iranian citizens offering their heartfelt condolences, and despite back channel offers of help, they were to be lumped in with the 9/11 crazy nut bag fundamentalist nihilists anyway. Which has slowly evolved into one of the greatest strategic fuck ups in human history, perhaps only short of Germany's Eastern Front or Napoleon and the same folly (funny, how warmonger's think they can do the same thing, over and over agai...

It is a well done biopic as these things go; but unlike JFK and Born on the Forth of July, Oliver Stone's latest film, "W" felt like one long running sub-par high school drama; politically correct, devoid of real grit and anger, and only selectively cherry-picking dialogue that nearly every semi-conscious American is already familiar with (even though the settings of several of the comments differed from reality). I have to admit I did enjoy the pleasure of seeing Condi Rice being portrayed as an over the top vacuous sycophant, which I've read isn't that "untrue," but I think she couldn't have been that bad, and that was sadly, some of the best comic relief. Brolin's George Dubya was brilliant however, so well done, that, believe it or not, he came off as sympathetic. Bush haters are going to hate it, and Bush lovers (are there many left?) will probably come away relieved. Almost as if the last 8 long years were somehow, divinely out of his cont...