"Body of War" a Disturbing Iraq War Critique
By John DeFore Reuters
Tuesday 18 September 2007
Toranto - A matter-of-fact but pointedly critical commentary on the Iraq War, "Body of War" focuses on how soldiers got sent to Iraq and the shape in which they're coming back, leaving the rest to the nightly news.
A crowded marketplace makes box office unpredictable, but identification with a single protagonist gives "Body" something to set it apart from other antiwar documentaries.
Like men of another generation who enlisted after Pearl Harbor, Tomas Young joined the Army on September 13, 2001, after seeing President Bush stand in front of Ground Zero rubble and promise to hunt down those who attacked us. He expected to go to Afghanistan in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but eventually found himself shipped off to Iraq. For about five days - after which his unarmored vehicle was attacked, and an AK-47 round pierced his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed.
Tuesday 18 September 2007
Toranto - A matter-of-fact but pointedly critical commentary on the Iraq War, "Body of War" focuses on how soldiers got sent to Iraq and the shape in which they're coming back, leaving the rest to the nightly news.
A crowded marketplace makes box office unpredictable, but identification with a single protagonist gives "Body" something to set it apart from other antiwar documentaries.
Like men of another generation who enlisted after Pearl Harbor, Tomas Young joined the Army on September 13, 2001, after seeing President Bush stand in front of Ground Zero rubble and promise to hunt down those who attacked us. He expected to go to Afghanistan in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but eventually found himself shipped off to Iraq. For about five days - after which his unarmored vehicle was attacked, and an AK-47 round pierced his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed.
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