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You mean it will be 2,146,316?
Tbh to comment before seeing it is as stupid as the tabloids that condemned Brass Eye before actually seeing it. I didn't think you were of such a similar mindset to our tabloid newspapers.
You really are a twat at times.
There have been films about the IRA, some of them American...67 Brits died on 9/11. It was an attack on civilised people everywhere.
What the fuck are you talking about now? The Republican Party does not fund the IRA. A few Irish Americans in Irish bars in Boston holding collections for the IRA (interestingly in a Democrat stronghold) does not equate to the Republican Party funding the IRA. :rolleyes: And er it was also Clinton, a Democrat that lifted a 20 year ban on official contact between the US government and Sinn Fein in '94 (following an IRA cease fire) Direct funding of the IRA is also illegal in the US...
The US government does not fund the IRA...:rolleyes:
Actually it was an attack for ideological reasons. Not on civilised people. Otherwise it would probably have been barbarians with big sticks. Odly enough, Islamists ARE Civilised... they just have a different view of civilisation to everyone else.
What, I think they should. Most people get over attacks and move on... no! America has go keep on about it and invade countries that have no connection, like Iraq, and try to falsify that Saddam funded terror once they found the WMD excuse was BS.
AFghanistahn I can understand. Iraq I can't. Would also help if the US hadn't trained half the terrorists anyway.
If anyone has got a different view than you, however naive, wrong, uneducated it may be, they have a right to express it and if you think you know better, then explain it and point to links and shit.
And I think that some of you are forgetting that the people that died in 9/11 were real people and that to them and their families, United 93 probably means a great deal. Those people might not even care about the "War on terror". It's wrong to categorize them in the same category as the US government!!
So if you haven't seen the film, see it and then make a judgement, the film is like a memoriem to the people who died, at the end all the names of the people on that flight are listed. It's nothing to do with Rambo and other hollywood films that were not fact based.
If you have seen the film then surely you'd realize that the film is about portraying the heroes on flight 93 who stopped the plane from reaching the White house and their families and not capital gain.
How? (I'm assuming you've seen it)
It didn't feel directed to be a piece of propoganda at all, it seemed mostly impartial though a few of the details added for the sake of the drama (on the plane) do lose it a bit.
The use of so many of the people actually involved in the air traffic control was impressive, and the moment the first plane hit was incredible. Comparing it to Rambo is a joke - a fictional story with little popularity compared to a basically accurate story
Agreed.
Out of everyone I know who has seen this film (myself included), there has been no discussino of how this film is portrayed to depict one side of a story or anything of the sort. It's a film, to remember a tragic event, and to commemorate some very brave people, end of.
That said many of the people who seem to be saying what a terrible film this is, how its just designed to shore up Bush etc, etc are the same people who wax lyrical over Michael Moore doing it for the other side
* Churchill felt that Mrs Miniver was more important to the British war effort than a flottila of destroyers. He didn't say the same for 'Target for Tonight'
I'd love to see proof of that. Tbh it's slightly more plausible that Democrats have funded the IRA, over the years prominent Irish American Democrats have controlled the party machines in big US cities but I'd be very surprised if party funds from either party had ever funded the IRA. (And funnily enough most Irish Americans don't fund the IRA). As turlough said the IRA get their US funding from NORAID and I'd guess NORAID has benefited from a few sympathetic Congressmen over the years but that's hardly party funds funding the IRA. (And for some balance it’s worth pointing out Ian Paisley has some links with some pretty extreme Christian groups and such in the States, not sure how much use they've been financially though).
Even within America the supporters of Irish Republicanism tend to be Democrats not Republicans (this may be stating the obvious but Irish republicans and American Republicans only similarity is the name)
That's not balance. Any money Paisley gets does not go into terrorism. Given that the man believes in a literal hell and has stated that Loyalist Terrorists will go to Hell I think he's made his position plain (and his condemnation of the UUP for its links to PUP which is linked to the UVF).
Its kind of like saying the BNP gets funds from German neo-nazi groups and then saying but for balance Labour gets funds from the Trade Unions.