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...FERTILE GROUND...
...Prudent but, as The Ground Truth shows, imprecise. You are told about a woman who put a hand inside her cloak to pull something out and, with a split second to decide whether she?s friend or foe, gun her down - noticing too late that what she reached for was a red flag. Or you see a car approach. Chad Reiber, an Army ranger, says: "I engaged a vehicle with a 50-caliber machine gun and blew it up. It was a pretty big explosion. I learned they had gasoline and a checkpoint book. I remember laughing after I blew...
...guess that many soldiers have returned from Iraq to resume normal lives. The Ground Truth shows that many others have come back dented or crushed. At the beginning of the film we see them testifying in closeup; later the camera pans back, and too many of them are missing a hand or a leg. "Just the other day," Army veteran Robert Acosta recalls, "this guy asked me, how did I lose my hand? And I told him I lost it in the war. And he said, ?What war?? And I said the war in Iraq. And he said, ?That...
...dozen or so main interview subjects in The Ground Truth are an attractive, articulate, thoughtful bunch; they make an American viewer proud they represented you abroad, and hopeful about the next generation of leaders. I wish that Huze and Sarra and a few others would run for Congress, to serve as the haunted, haunting conscience of the American grunt. "Many of us are realizing, the military, that fight wasn?t our fight," one vet says. "This is our fight...
...Ground Truth, which is the best film I?ve seen to emerge from the 9/11 attacks and the war that followed, is implicitly antiwar, I suppose. But it?s undeniably pro-troops - the ones who went to Iraq at the country?s call, and are now speaking out, demanding veterans? rights, a simple appreciation of their service and its awful cost. Some might say that to criticize the country you fought for is conduct unbecoming an officer. Huze disagrees: "[If] I didn?t speak out about it, that would be unbecoming...