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The Pentagon Rivals Hollywood at Telling War Stories
Submitted by strike on Sat, 2007-09-22 16:00
"Movie-making and war-making would now be intertwined. The location of this production would be Iraq . The director would be the Pentagon. The production staff would be situated at that quarter-million-dollar set for war briefings at centcom headquarters in Doha , Qatar , and Americans would see our troops advance in triumph just the way they were supposed to, just the way they had on-screen all those long, glorious years ago."
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