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The Hollywood Left is from Venus?
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<p>David Koepp, the screenwriter behind the current blockbuster movie<br />
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<cite>War of the Worlds</cite> has <a href='http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/index.php?p=527'>said</a>:<br />
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“the Martians in our movie represent American military forces invading<br />
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the Iraqis.”</p>
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<p>As InstaPundit observed, you just can’t make this stuff up. It’s<br />
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hard to lampoon the Hollywood left any more, because they keep<br />
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uttering inanities that venture beyond far, far beyond parody —<br />
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yea and verily, into the Land of the Barking Moonbats. Nevertheless,<br />
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here at <cite>Armed and Dangerous</cite> we’re not afraid to<br />
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try…</p>
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<p>OK, Mr, Koepp, let’s see if I have this straight. The Americans in<br />
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the movie aren’t Americans. they’re Iraqis. The Martians aren’t<br />
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Martians, they’re Americans. Fine, I follow you so far. Is there a<br />
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scene where the Martians collect toys from the Red Planet to give to<br />
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American children? Do they build schools and powerplants for the<br />
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Earthlings who are blowing them up with IEDs? Is there a scene where<br />
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the Martians depose the brutal American dicator George Bush —<br />
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you know, the one who fought a pointless war with Mexico and<br />
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nerve-gassed the population of the upper Midwest? Do we get to see his<br />
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twin daughters amusing themselves by feeding dissidents feet-first<br />
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into industrial shredders?</p>
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<p>Koepp would have it that <cite>War of the Worlds</cite> is a fable<br />
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about the perils of military adventurism. As an anarchist who<br />
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believes that war is the health of the State and an overly healthy<br />
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State is a damnably bad thing, I daresay I’m more dead set against<br />
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“military adventurism” than he is; I’ll bet he thought it wasn’t so<br />
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bad when, say, Soviet tanks were rolling into Prague in 1968, if he<br />
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was alive then.</p>
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<p>But “adventurism” is a peculiar word to use in this context. Not<br />
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the movie, but what he claims it refers to. Um. Just checking,<br />
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now…four years before the movie began, did the two tallest buildings<br />
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on Mars get flying saucers crashed into them by terrorists operating<br />
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from Guatemala? Did every intelligence service on Mars believe, and<br />
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tell their leaders, that the terrorists had been getting training and<br />
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logistical support from the CIA? Did the Martian press repeatedly<br />
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publish investigative stories about the terrorist/American connection<br />
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and urging Mars to do something about it — stories that were<br />
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believed clean across the political spectrum before a campaign for<br />
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Supreme Xyglfrntz made it convenient for one faction of Martians to<br />
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forget that?</p>
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<p>Probably not. But that’s the movie <em>I</em> want to see. You know,<br />
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the one where John Kerry does a cameo as a failed candidate for Supreme<br />
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Xyglfrntz who voted for the invasion before he voted against it.</p></p>
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