"Casualties of War" in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film's image.

Brian De Palma:

"The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people," he told reporters after a press screening.
"The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war," he said.

The movie was shown at the Venice Film Festival and stars Robert Devaney and Patrick Carroll and yes is directed by De Palma.

The name of the film is 'Redacted' and it

stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.

It's about an extremely tragic event, War Crime!, that took place in Iraq and we All know about.

the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family

it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

It's about Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi and the Soldiers who brutalized her, gang raped and than burned, and killed her parents and sister!



It's written as

halfway between documentary and fiction and draws on soldiers' home-made war videos, blogs and journals and footage posted on YouTube

De Palma again:

"In Vietnam, when we saw the images and the sorrow of the people we were traumatizing and killing, we saw the soldiers wounded and brought back in body bags. We see none of that in this war,"

Click on the movie title above to find out what De Palme says about the American Media and a little about the making of it.

The movie

ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians killed and their faces blacked out for legal reasons.

This movie sounds like it would be a must see, if one has a strong will, to better understand some of what actually goes on in a War Theater.

The small number of military personal who commit what would be considered War Crimes create even more danger for their fellow soldiers and raise the hatreds of the occupied populace, already in rage for many over all the death and destruction, bringing more into the fold trying to rid their homeland of the invaders.

The report says there probably will be a limited U.S. release.

We don't mind waging Wars on little countries, with all our might, we just don't like to view the results of that might. It doesn't have a 'Rambo' figure to cheer and never ends happily like those good ole World War II movies I grew up with, nor the westerns fighting those savages who were here first!

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