A clarification:
The article states: "At the Oscars on 23 March 2003, ... there were already whispers – since proven correct – that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction...."

Whispers? Weapons inspector Scott Ritter had been saying that since Sept of 2002. He was making so much noise about it, in Jan 2003, Wolf Blitzer assembled a propaganda panel to discredit him. By Oscar night, Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix had confirmed it. Whispering? Ha! We were screaming!

Affirmative action in action, is that what we saw?

This movie could have been a propaganda piece for military recruiters. The soldiers portrayed were one dimensional. The "bully" comes home, cannot relate to his family and goes back to enter the killing fields. No nuance, no struggle with PTSD, just flat. It is a disservice to all the troops and vets. People voted for her, because she was a woman, and because they were jealous of Cameron. There was no sense of the movie being a cultural statement of the times. I doubt many who voted for it had actually seen it. Standards are out...a myopic political correctness in and now Bigelow: a woman acting like a macho man (this is feminism?) is off to make a movie in Afganistan. She was a psychic mess at the awards ceremony. No wonder: she wanted to pretend that this was an anti-war movie. It was not: it had no story, no transcendence or heart.

While Bush and his ilk sit sipping tea and passing the sweet-n-sour shrimp, US troops and innocent Middle Easterners are being slaughtered, and US treasure is being spent to fill the blood coffers of the likes of Halliburton, Blackwater, and KBR.

The boo's for Mr. Moore should now be followed by criminal charges against the real enemy - the Bush White House. But this government and its flock of American sheeple only know how to stick a stinking flag in the front yard and pretend that they are patriots. Patriots? Supporting terrorist war mongers is NOT patriotism...it is treason.