Antiwar Director DePalma is at it again!

“VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.

“Redacted”, by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice’s main competition.

Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

De Palma, 66, whose “Casualties of War” in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film’s images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.

“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people,” he told reporters after a press screening.

“The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war,” he said.”

Causalities of War you’ll remember was the movie staring *snort* Sean (Spicoli) Penn and Michael J. Fox. It was along the genre of “Platoon” showing leftwing stereotypical pictures of crazed out of control troops razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan….blah, blah. What De Palma did with Causualties was to take basically John Kerry’s lies and unconfirmed acusations and create a film that made people think that Penn and Fox were every soldier that ever fought in Vietnam.

The rape of this young girl happened, but it didn’t happen everwhere, and it was a few - like Abu Grab - out of hundreds of throusand of troops that served honorably and gave the ulimate sacrifice.

The Reuters (an antiwar rag in it’s own right) continues of “Redacted”:

“Halfway between documentary and fiction, “Redacted” draws on soldiers’ home-made war videos, blogs and journals and footage posted on YouTube, reflecting changes in the way the media cover the war.”

“Halfway between documentary and fiction”…

In otherwords, just like Casualties it’s bullshit.