http://iraqitruthproject.com
Found a great little site. I hope that everyone watches the short (about 25 Minutes) movie on this site about the making of this Documentary.
Making of the Movie Short WARNING: There are some disturbing images in this short.
Here is some interesting tidbits:
- The Baath Party was started by Arab Christians to join together Arabs and Christians in Iraq.
- Sadaam dressed up like a women and attempted to assisasinate the leader of Iraq. He subsequently had to flee to Egypt.
All of this aside, what interests me is the way I felt when I watched this short. When I watch History Channel documentaries, I just sit back and take in the information. I don't think about what I believe to be true; I just enjoy the documentary. For some reason I have these little doubts in my mind that question all of this. For some reason I want to see it with my own eyes, but I take the holocaust at face value. The images and videos I have seen of emaciated Jews being poured into mass graves, leaves me with only anger and befuddlement, but when I see these same images (and some images that are more horrifying) concerning Kurds or Sunnis being treated the same inhumane way, I have doubt. Why? It is because of what we are fed every single day: Bush is evil. Bush is causing more terrorism. Sadaam wasn't that bad. We should have never gone in there in the first place.
It is going to be quite interesting to see this moment in History in 30 years. Sadaam murdered and tortured about a million people, but all we are left with at this present moment in time is this confusing mass of media and spin. What did people think when they first started to see the images from Auschwitz? What did they think before they saw those images? Was there doubt when we were storming Normandy? Was there doubt when we were in the 15th year of rebuilding Germany and the rest of Europe? How about all the time that we spent in Japan after the bombs were dropped? Was the media like it is now?
America is one last vestiges of almost pure freedom and blessings. We are so amazingly fortunate to be here in this country. Manteca made a great point concering Steve Colbert's stand-up at the White House Correspondent's Association dinner. While some of it was funny, most of it was really rude and just went too far. Even most liberals think that he took it too far. But the point that Manteca made was that this could only happen in free countries like America where a comedian can completely emabarrass the leader of the most powerful country in the world and live. After his train wreck of a stand-up act (labeled by some as genius) was finished, Bush sctually shook his hand and told him he did a good job (Colbert said later that this was the case). What do you think Stalin, Hitler, or Sadaam would have done?
Bush's Stand-up with Steven Bridges at the White House Correspondent's Association dinner.
Steven Colbert's Train Wreck
The people who put this together really have no clue. I might have walked out if I was Bush.
