What If America Were Invaded and Occupied?
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Author: Zzzzzt!
Date: Dec 23, 2007 08:06

What If America Were Invaded and Occupied?

"Unembedded" journalist Dahr Jamail reviews Meeting Resistance.

"Suppose Iraq invaded America. And an Iraqi soldier was on a tank
passing through an American street, waving his gun at the people,
threatening them, raiding and trashing houses. Would you accept that?
This is why no Iraqi can accept occupation, and don't be surprised by
their reactions," says "The Imam," a young man from a mixed Sunni-Shia
family, as he explains the genesis of the insurgency in Iraq and its
exponential growth.
He is one of the protagonists that Meeting Resistance presents as
unmistakable evidence that the root cause of the conflict in Iraq is
the occupation itself. The film has resistance fighters themselves
tell their story.

Journalists-turned-filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors were
compelled to film this documentary during their early reporting of the
U.S. occupation of Iraq. They used the al-Adhamiya neighborhood of
Baghdad to explore and depict an insurgency that has been caricatured
by the Bush Administration.
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