Looking at the problem from the POV of a non-Hollywood writer, it gets even more puzzling. The tension between a good person and an ambiguous (or worse) cause or an ambiguous (or worse) person and a good cause makes for great storytelling — that goes back to Huck Finn. If you take the (entirely supportable; I'm certainly willing to argue it) dramatic position that, say, the War in Iraq is an ambiguous cause, putting good people in the way of literally fighting for it should be a natural story to tell. (It's one of the reasons that, say, Taking Chance is so powerful — you can bring whatever your feelings are about the Iraq War to it and find the pain and decency and honor of the Marines who bring his body home moving without having to touch your own political positions.)

Stories about honorable men — and women; we got our first female Silver Star winner out of Iraq, after all — in the Iraq War should be out there. And folks who oppose the war wouldn't have to change one bit of their own political positions to tell those stories.

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Need we go on? The list could continue onwards!

Thanks for laying down the gauntlet! Maybe we can get another ‘Blackhawk Down’ or ‘We Were Soldiers’ out of this challenge! This time, with our stories from Iraq and Afghanistan!

Michael “Sudsy” Sutherland
USAF 02AUG00-02JUL07 OIF SEP05-FEB06, NOV06-MAY07

I believe we call such journalistic standards “liberal”.

Bombing villages? What claptrap! I defy anyone in hollywood to show a single instance of the United States dropping a single bomb on Iraq. It SIMPLY DIDNT HAPPEN.

Second, to LURKER and others above who regurgitated the nostrum that depleted uranium (DU) is somehow toxic:

Do some research on DU before you paint yourselves into a corner.

Hysterical ultra-liberal journalists here and in such countries as Italy, UK, and France have convinced the general populace that DU is toxic. Communist journalists in Italy are among the most egregious. They and the others blew their moral cover rather fast when they raced to demand financial compensation for alleged victims of our DU use. Their posturing is really just all about money and professional aggrandizement.

The truth is that you get as much radiation from standing next to a granite building or pile of coal as you do from a similar amount of DU.

It is a heavy metal like lead, mercury, and tungsten and is not radioactive in the amounts the other isotopes of uranium are. Check out the periodic table of elements to confirm what I say.

Like any heavy metal, it oxidizes as it strikes armor and oxides of uranium are generally found inside and around destroyed tanks and other armored vehicles. As a heavy metal oxide, it settles to the bottom of the tank or to the ground very fast and in a form of dust that can be stirred up by wind or someone stomping around inside destroyed armor, never a wise thing to do if one does not know beforehand what ammo loads they carried. If that oxide dust gets into the air immediately around where one is, it can be inhaled and that is what can cause health problems.

As the dust oxides leach into the soil through rainfall, they can find its way into water tables but again, as they are very heavy, they sink to the bottom of the table fairly fast and insignificant amounts of the DU oxides find their way into water supplies.

Because of the hysteria surrounding it, I believe our government has ceased contracting for its production and has switched to another heavy metal – tungsten, I think. What’s sad about that is that I’m told that the oxides of tungsten are toxic in many more ways oxides of DU are not.

Had DU carried a different name like “depleted lead,” no one would have given it a second thought. “Uranium” is, pardon the pun, a radioactive word that gets immediate attention in headlines.

The hysteria surrounding DU has just produced more stupid unintended consequences from journalists with pathological anti-American agendas and an axe to grind against the only country in the world that was willing to go into the Balkans and stop the fascist Serbs from massacring every single Muslim in the Balkans Peninsula.

Do some research to learn what the Balkans Task Force run by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) found in their investigation of DU use in the Balkans. Their reports are to be found on the open internet through the UN website. Their scientists went in fully prepared to legitimize Milosevic’s claims of “envirocide” by the US and its NATO allies but had to conclude that there was very little, if any, environmental damage.

They did report, however, that among all the sites they inspected that Serbian dictator Milosevic claimed were horribly damaged environmentally by NATO DU use and other forms of aerial attacks, all but four sites were already damaged almost beyond repair from the complete lack of environmental protection by the former Yugoslav commie regime. These were factory and refinery locations that were legitimate war targets. That’s what happens when you have a commie or socialist regime that will not allow a free press that could reasonably be expected to expose such institutional environmental criminality.

I have some questions for those whose liberal knees jerk every time someone mentions one of their hot button words like “DU.”

Why is it that instead of praising the US, the only NATO country aside from the UK to stop the genocide in the Balkans, European journalists and those who laughably call themselves journalists in this country chose to zero in on DU to make it one of the premier issues of what should have been portrayed as a humanitarian action?

Another question: WWI and WWII created millions of tons of heavy metal pollution throughout several western European countries. Millions of tons of lead permeate European soil. Would it be reasonable to assume that it is leaching into their water supplies? If so, how come we hear nothing about what seems to be the lack of European governments’ action to rid their soil of that massive pollution? Could it be that heavy metals that are artificially introduced into the soil are not really a health hazard. That’s my guess.

The lefty Euro and US journalists have come down hard on the position that the US must clean up every last bit of DU that went into the soil of the Balkans and the Middle East in GWI and GWII. Shouldn’t European governments be held to the same standard given that their potential heavy metal pollution is probably 99.99999% of such pollution from military action while ours from using DU is probably about 0.00001%?

Don’t bother to provide answers. We already know what they are – We’re held to a far higher standard of behavior while other nations get a complete pass.

By the way, DU rounds we use were produced in Massachusetts, home of those champions of environmental protection, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. How come they didn’t demand that the factory should be shut down? Oh! I think I know! Local payrolls and even more taxes for that commonwealth.

It could also be for the same general reason that Ted Kennedy put the kibosh on wind farm generators out in the bay his Hyannis Port compound faces and where he sails perfecting his water skills (snort!) – I think that is called “NIMBY,” one of the left’s cardinal sins.

Thanks for serving … and for standing up to the intellectually-stunted you now have to work with in the entertainment industry. Keep your boots tightly laced … for those you work with are mired in the conventional wisdom of the last century, which has been known to suck the boots off a man if he’s not careful.

As someone who works in the “complex” you malign, let me make something clear to you.

Our work saves lives:

> The life of the warfighter, by simultaneously enhancing their physical safety, situational awareness, and ability to execute the mission and achieve the objective.

> The life of the innocent noncombatant, by facilitating both the situational awareness and the targeting accuracy that enables the warfighter to differentiate — far better now than at any time in history — between the innocent and the enemy when it comes to putting steel on target.

> The lives of ALL who value life and liberty … by empowering the warfighter to efficiently, expeditiously, and decisively end the ability of an enemy to threaten life and liberty.

I take pride in my work … what have you done to save lives today?

I don’t feel it can be said enough: Thank you for your service.

Except the massive Entitlement Industrial Complex is three times the size of the military industrial complex and earns a hundred times more for Politicians who keep promising the government will take care of all the peoples wants and needs only to end up enslaving the peoples to miserable serfdom for all of their lives.

Take a look at all the ‘rich’ people who paid almost a billion$$$ to get The One elected as leader of the Entitlement Industrial Complex; this way George Soros, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates et al will receive greater profit in their position as Slave Masters.

That said; I love Marines along with all who serve, they are the best thing going in America.