Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first quite fantastical: four bored soldiers, AWOL with a hum-vee, searching for buried treasure. With the grizzled Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a disillusioned officer leading their illicit adventure, these swashbucklers embark upon their search for hidden Kuwaiti gold led by a secret map concealed in a captured Iraqi's ass, affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes...
...calculating what the most necessary thing is to each side in a conflict, one can predict an enemy's actions. While Saddam's troops are fighting rebels among their own people, he reasons, they are not going to bother about a small band of Americans pillaging. For the Iraqis, survival is the necessity; for Saddam his survival as a dictator and tyrant, and for the Iraqi people, simply their lives. For the American soldiers, necessity is riches, comfort, luxury, and it is with sugarplum visions that they embark on their secret mission...
...power in Iraq and Americans, often reservists, stand guard over more than half of its war-torn landscape, policing no-fly zones. Water treatment plants are not rebuilt. The economy is nonexistent, at least in measurable terms. Convoys of the few supplies that actually are ordered by the Iraqi government from the West's watchguards are often diverted, squandered or sold to those who can barely survive let alone pay for what was meant of be distributed for free...
...Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Rania Masri, the coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition. "Discussed" might be a bit too euphemistic for the polite attempt to maintain any semblance of decorum that ensued. Exchanging charges of American obstinance and anti-Islamic biases with claims of Iraqi corruption and noncompliance, the guests agreed on very little except the dire state of the average Iraqi family--especially its women and children...
When children die and people suffer, both the Iraqi and American governments have blood on their hands. To argue who is more culpable--to see whether sanctions are stifling resistance to oppression or creating it--is, in the end, missing the point. The people in Iraq will suffer and die while negotiations continue back and forth. As responsible human beings, we must ask if an open-ended international game of chicken is what is best for our fellow human beings unlucky enough to live in Iraq...