Green Zone epic fail

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'The Green Zone’ debacle: Why it really hurts Universal
http://www.knoxville.com/news/2010/mar/17/green-zone-debacle-why-it-re
ally-hurts-universal/?partner=RSS

'Green Zone' The Bourne Insufficiency: It's only been seven years since the U.S. led a multinational invasion of Iraq that deposed the dictator Saddam Hussein (which was good)...
[never mind the Iraq War has been non-stop for 20 years with 2.6-million Iraqis genocided]
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1633788/20100312/story.jhtml

Matt Damon: Chief Warrant Officer jew Roy Miller
Amy Ryan: Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne (ie defrocked Mossad jew Judith "WMD" Miller, WSJ is owned by Deng Wen Di Murdoch in Commie China)
John Miller: Jewish LAPD journalist who interviewed CIA employee Usama Bin Laden (neither in movie)

It's marketed as a kosher "Bourne Conspiracy 4" to sell AllCIAduh Dictator Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden's Neverending Wars for Israel and the NWO. Without MKULTRA mind control, just brainwash propaganda.

How much bailout money will Universal get? Or got?

Isn't Universal owned by the Bushes, Bin Ladens and German Queen of England at Carlyle Group?

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I'm thinking that “piratenews” and my great grandmother on my mother's side would get along really well. Grandma is constantly sharing her opinions of current events, like “piratenews” does. She is 91 years old and has dementia. Did I mention “piratenews” makes as much sense?

A not-so-nutty-as-Mr-Piratenews take on Green Zone is http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/ideology-at-the-box
-office.php
Ideology at the Box Office

Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” site gloats over The Green Zone’s poor box office:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/03/13/box-office-m
att-damons-100-million-green-zone-flops-could-open-to-less-than-15-million/

AP confirms: “Green Zone” opens to a dismal $14.5 million.

The moral of the story? If you’re going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs.
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Compare that to the opening weekend figures for the two previous collaborations between director Paul Greengrass and Damon:

— Bourne Supremacy: $52.5 million
— Bourne Ultimatum: $69.2 million

Gee, I (Matthew Yglesias) wonder what the difference was?

I would have read the “Bourne” series as expressing severe skepticism about American hegemony and the wisdom of an unrestrained national security state. Very American, that is, in the tradition of Dwight Eisenhower and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, but anti-American in the tradition of the contemporary right-wing and Big Hollywood.

And, indeed, consider Big Hollywood’s take on the Bourne movies about a year ago:

But Bourne fights predominantly middle-aged white men in suits who are part of the military and intelligence establishments. Combine that with the character’s inherent narcissism, and he’s the perfect screen hero for the hard left. [...]

There’s talk of another Greengrass/Damon/Bourne project in Hollywood, but that series will never match Bond’s pop culture significance and historic resonance with movie fans — and that will forever burn in the guts of hard left ideologues who forget “it’s only a movie.”

I (Matthew Yglesias) am gonna say it’s only a movie, and neither the popularity of the Bourne series nor the unpopularity of Green Zone has a great deal to do with hard-left ideologues.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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The problem with Green Zone is the total lack of anti-war customers, now that CIA Dictator Hussein Obama is running the wars. Bad timing plus fluoride OD.

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Whatever could be outsourced was. The job of setting up town and city councils was performed by a North Carolina firm for $236 million. The job of guarding the viceroy was assigned to private guards, each of whom made more than $1,000 a day. For running the palace–cooking the food, changing the lightbulbs, doing the laundry, watering the plants– Halliburton had been handed hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the bungled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. From April 2003 to October 2004, he was The Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq and supervising a team of Post correspondents. He lived in Baghdad for much of the six months before the war [CIA], reporting on the United Nations weapons-inspections process and the build-up to the conflict. In the months following September 11, 2001, he was part of a team of Post reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan.

http://www.rajivc.com/excerpt.htm

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Green Zone

www.greenzonemovie.com

The film is "credited as having been 'inspired' by"[2] the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which documented life in the Green Zone, Baghdad.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone is a 2006 book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran that takes a critical look at the civilian leadership of the American reconstruction project in Iraq. Centered mainly on the actions of the Coalition Provisional Authority, within the Green Zone of Baghdad, Chandrasekaran details the events from the end of the invasion phase of the war until the official transfer of power to the Iraqis and the growing insurgency in the country.

Within the prologue to the book, Chandrasekaran claims that his work does not take a side for or against the United States' invasion of Iraq, simply treating it as a given, and instead focuses purely on examining how the post-apocalyptic invasion/occupation was handled.

SPOILERS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zone_(film)

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So does the nonfiction book include the Bush WMD conspiracy? Very old news.

Thank gods that Pentagon wiped out the CIA wagon train bringing WMDs into Iraq -- that's the real conspiracy.

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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq and UK

On February 5, 2007, the Telegraph reported that, "Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone" [in Iraq], the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG)." The members of the JSG "are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies using methods developed on the mean streets of Ulster during the Troubles, when the Army managed to infiltrate the IRA at almost every level. Since war broke out in Iraq in 2003, they have been responsible for running dozens of Iraqi double agents." They have been "[w]orking alongside the Special Air Service [SAS] and the American Delta Force as part of the Baghdad-based counter-terrorist unit known as Task Force Black."

t was reported that, "During the Troubles [in Northern Ireland], the JSG operated under the cover name of the Force Research Unit (FRU), which between the early 1980s and the late 1990s managed to penetrate the very heart of the IRA. By targeting and then "turning" members of the paramilitary organisation with a variety of "inducements" ranging from blackmail to bribes, the FRU operators developed agents at virtually every command level within the IRA." Further, "The unit was renamed following the Stevens Inquiry

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