there is an old movie called Three Kings. it's about the first Gulf War. it's from 1999.

it's a very poignant movie. it portrays the USA as sort of good, and sort of evil. and same with Saddam's Iraqi army too. it shows some Iraqis who are supposed to be evil, and some who are sorta of good and have very legitimate reasons for hating the USA and hence understandably do bad things to US soldiers

it's the best war movie i've ever seen.

it has a lot of deep messages in it that show the USA in both a good light and a bad light at the exact same time

the acting is stellar all around. the script is top-notch. the visual style is very engrossing.

one of the most ironic things is that in the movie a solider is criticizing the USA to his CO for abandoning the Iraqis right after Bush Sr. told them to fight against Saddam, and then the CO replies with something like: "what do you want us to do, occupy Iraq and have another Vietnam on our hands?!" which of course is now what we have today, although the makers of the film did not know that at the time they were making it

have any of you seen Three Kings? if so, what are your thoughts and how do you think it is possible that an entire White House administration could be so stupid as to occupy Iraq when even Hollywood could see that occupying Iraq was a horrible idea. and they saw that way before 9/11