Right now, the movie Three Kings about Gulf War 1 is screening on Australian TV.

It depicts US troops as undisciplined, greedy looters who will happily shoot any Iraqi with little regard for life. It gives a stirring platform for an angry Iraqi to demand: how would you feel if I dropped a bomb on your wife and child? my child is dead now! (no reference to the millions Saddam's thugs killed).

It shows the US troops as lying to the Iraqis who wanted to rebel against Saddam telling them they would be supported by the US. The movie of course pretends that the US has no interest at all in helping them, it's just a lie of convenience.

But it doesn't mention that the UN refused to extend their mandate from liberating Kuwait to removing Saddam. Never does George Clooney say: 'We can't help them because the UN won't let us.'

It doesn't reference the hysterical protestors screaming 'no blood for oil' who didn't want the US even to kick Saddam out of Kuwait let alone out of power.

This movie is an insult to the disciplined, professional United States military.

With Hollywood churning out only critical pieces that slander the US there will be no combating the anti-American flavour of youth culture: after all, loads of young people get their opinions influenced by movies.

Just once I'd like to see a movie about a oil-money-rich Saudi religious school in Java that takes a poor but moderate Indonesian and turns him into a Wahhabist terrorist. After all, it's not like it hasn't happened in real life. Where's that movie playing?

Three Kings explains in one movie the reason so many people (especially the young) in western societies are embracing the 'hate america' culture of self-loathing, and why so many of the ill-informed turned up to the pro-Saddam rallies.

Because the movie is critical of the US it gets extra kudos from the critics and an extra aura of being true-to-life. Goebbels must be grinning now.

Feh!