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Green Zone
ecthompsonmd March 13, 2010

Matt Damon’s latest movie, Green Zone, is an entertaining tale about the beginning of the Iraq war. Unfortunately, the commercials sell this as another Bourne Supremacy movie. It is not. Those of us who’ve kept up with the minute details of how we got into the war and how the Bush administration sold the war may be disappointed because all of the names are changed. The details are compressed. Blame is not directly placed on any one individual (I place it on Cheney). Nonetheless, I found this to be an extremely enjoyable movie. Matt Damon plays a soldier whose job it

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What's going on – News Roundup
ecthompsonmd December 8, 2008

Monday Evening News Roundup Military jet crashes in San Diego, killing three. 133 still missing votes in Minnesota. Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others in Guantanamo want to plead guilty. Let’s think this one through. People we tortured would now like to plead guilty? Can you, can we, accept such a plea? Five Blackwater guards have been charged in the deaths of 14 Iraqi citizens. I’m not sure where this is going, but I know it’s gonna be interesting follwing this case. The Tribune Corporation which owns the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Cubs, has filed for Chapter 11. Barack Obama was

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McCain Says Obama Doesn't Understand
ecthompsonmd July 22, 2008

I don’t need to go to Iraq to understand that Kurds, Sunnis and Shia don’t like sharing the region. Just as you don’t have to go to Watts in Los Angles to know that it is an extremely dangerous neighborhood. I also don’t need to go to Iraq to understand that it was a mistake to invade that country in the first place. So, I really don’t follow Senator John McCain’s reasoning. Now, given Maliki’s stated position that the Iraqi government is to have U.S. troops out of their country by 2010, McCain is stuck again. McCain has only a couple

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