JEWISH IDENTITY POLITICS: REVIEWING "REDACTED" STARTS A SCRAP By Hal Womack 3-dan http://www.myspace.com/halwomack On Tuesday 071120 I posted to five other Usenet newsgroups and also circulated to my email list a short announcement of Brian De Palma's new film docudrama about the U.S. destruction of Iraq. One of the recipients was a group of my old friends and associates in Austin, Texas

GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICANS FOR THANKSGIVING: BRIAN DE PALMA'S MOVIE _REDACTED_ By Hal Womack 3-dan http://www.myspace.com/halwomack "The name of the real girl, who was actually 14, was Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi" --from Rogert Ebert's review (complete text below in Appendix #1). The United States of America is dangerously short on living heroes. The behavior of the Washington

On Nov 19, 4:32 pm, "Brian Carey" <car...@mindspring.com> wrote: War PornBrian De Palma's Redacted is schlock fantasy. By Fred Kaplan Posted Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, at 5:57 PM ET Rob Devaney and Izzy Diaz in Redacted Brian De Palma's Redacted is a movie that gives war criticism a bad name. It's a nasty piece of work-and not in a good way. He means to shock, but his film is merely

War PornBrian De Palma's Redacted is schlock fantasy. By Fred Kaplan Posted Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, at 5:57 PM ET Rob Devaney and Izzy Diaz in Redacted Brian De Palma's Redacted is a movie that gives war criticism a bad name. It's a nasty piece of work-and not in a good way. He means to shock, but his film is merely distasteful. He thinks he's exposing the hidden horrors of war, but it comes