Friday, January 18, 2008
Past is Prologue: An excerpt from Three Kings
I caught a few minutes of the 1999 George Clooney flick "Three Kings", which is set in the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Kuwait. The script was dated June 1998, and the movie was released to adoring fans in 1999. I thought this bit rather impressively foreshadowed the policy argument over Operation Iraqi Freedom between those alumni of Bush 41 who opposed the 2003 war and those who supported it, in each case out of fealty to or regret over the decision to stop the war in 1991. Major Archie Gates (Clooney) waxing cynical with a friend who has been promoted (emphasis added):
GENERAL HORN
They made me a general, pal.
ARCHIE GATES
For what? I don't even know what
we did over here, but Schwartzkopf
gets a book deal, you get a star,
Powell gets to be fucking
president--
GENERAL HORN
Are you high? This is a huge win
for us.
ARCHIE GATES
Running the press pool's a real
big win for me.
GENERAL PYE
You want us to kill more Americans
to occupy Iraq?
ARCHIE GATES
I'm just saying it's ironic,
that's all.
GENERAL HORN
What the fuck is ironic?
ARCHIE GATES
We got the biggest army in the
world here but Iraq still has the
d-bag dictator in power, but
that's how the world works I guess.
Well, it is ironic. In so many ways.
3 Comments:
By 
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Fri Jan 18, 11:22:00 PM:
Show a little respect. George Clooney is now a special envoy for the United Nations.
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 12:43:00 AM:
LOONIE GEORGE CLOONEY i would say the loon(bird)is more intellegent then he is
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 01:33:00 AM:
The ironic part to me is that the dbag is Clooney. At least he is amongst family.
