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2018-07-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Rob Reiner's Anti-Bush Flick Earns All of $41K At The Box Office

There's a reason he's called Meathead...
Rob "Meathead" Reiner’s new film, "Shock and Awe," starring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Biel about the runup to the Iraq War, earned only $41,000 at the box office this weekend:

Posted by Raj 2018-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [31 views ] Top

#1 I'm sure the run will last for several more days at least. Then they can release it to DVD where it can cut into Steven Segal's earnings.

Posted by gorb 2018-07-16 03:28|| 2018-07-16 03:28|| Front Page Top

#2 $41,000? If people vote with their dollars, this movie is a dud.

Most people get that some people think the invasion of Iraq was justified and there are those who don't.

The argument often is that Saddam had WMDs which were a threat to neighbors and the West. There are fairly good reasons to believe he might have WMDs:

1. He was developing a nuclear capability until the Israelis Operation Opera/Babylonin 1981. He had a willingness to develop such weapons and actually embarked upon such programs.
2. Saddam employed a microbiologist by the name of Rihab Rashid Taha al-Azawi, dubbed Dr. Germ who was working on biological weapons. Another female scientist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash was dubbed Dr. Anthrax. They were detained and released in 2005 after the Iraqi elections.
3. It was reported that Saddam used chemical weapons on the Kurds at Halabja in March 1988.
4. The New York Times reported that American troops reported finding approximately 5,000 chemical warheads, shells, or aviation bombs in the years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Leftwood/Hollywood seems content to parrot the message that there were no WMDs and that the U.S. should never have invaded Iraq.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-16 08:49|| 2018-07-16 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Everyone got paid while being allowed to throw their leftist tantrum on stage so I don't think they care it was a dud. It is all about the signaling while being paid.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-16 09:03|| 2018-07-16 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 it went to DVD and to DirectTV last winter which is one reason for the slow box office

it also isn't a very good movie per the rotten tomato aggregates

Posted by lord garth 2018-07-16 11:07|| 2018-07-16 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Anti-Boosh these days means normals revolted by Jeb!'s "act of love" nonsense mutterings...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-16 12:42|| 2018-07-16 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6
Some Iraqi generals had said the program had ended and that there were no more munitions of the WMD nature. Lesson learned. For the future, just because they are the enemy doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.
In hindsight too bad for nearly all concerned that we didn't listen. At least with Sadaam and his pathological sons there was a balance to Iran. As far as I have seen the munitions found were from the Iran-Iraq war, leaking, rusting, and unusable.
Having been to the SE Asia playground once upon a time, I had a feeling I was hearing a replay of a broken and scratchy record, this one entitled Chalibi[sp]. If you recall, he was instrumental in convincing Bush and friends to invade. He didn't convince me.
The rest is history and still unfolding.
A disaster of immeasurable proportions.

Posted by Roger29 Palms 2018-07-16 14:38|| 2018-07-16 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Rob Reiner and Trump would agree on the invasion of Iraq. I wonder if anyone has told Mr Reiner that.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-16 16:36|| 2018-07-16 16:36|| Front Page Top

#8 For the future, just because they are the enemy doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.

The New York Times finally reported on Iraq’s abandoned chemical weapons in 2014, long after repeated reports on the subject in the conservative press. But the thing is, had not Iraq been so conclusively conquered in 2003, the stocks would not have been abandoned, just as the stockpile of yellow cake was being saved against the future resumption of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program.

Bottom line, claiming that WMD weapons programs are ended when they were merely temporarily paused — that is not telling the truth.

Posted by trailing wfe 2018-07-16 22:06|| 2018-07-16 22:06|| Front Page Top