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[elmono311]

"A Muslim film festival, which opens in San Francisco on Saturday, will be highlighted by a screening of the Turkish film Valley of the Wolves, an anti-American docudrama that hinges on a July 4, 2003 incident during the Iraq war when U.S. forces captured 11 Turkish soldiers who were actually members of coalition forces. The incident sparked outrage in Turkey after the soldiers were shown with hoods over their heads being marched out of their headquarters at gunpoint. The villain in the film is played by Gary Busey, as a doctor who removes organs from Iraqi prisoners and sells them to hospitals abroad. The $10-million film is the most expensive Turkish film ever made and is one of the country's biggest hits. Last February, one woman, emerging from a theater showing the film in Istanbul, told a BBC reporter: 'If I see an American when I get out of here I feel like taking a hood and putting it over their head.'"

My focus is on that last comment. Stupid woman. For one, the majority of Americans do not support the war. Secondly, the majority of Americans do not wish this on anybody innocent. Thirdly, I'm pretty sure they let those soldiers go once they waded through all the paperwork and the chain of command. I wonder how many Americans have been accidentely captured by allies in the past centuries...

[Vengeance]

I get what you're saying, but I don't fault that woman for her statement. I don't know how many Americans have said things (including me) about nuking the whole middle east and making it a parking lot. Obviously that's not fair just like that woman's statement wasn't fair, but that's outrage at its best and she had just gotten out of the film. If she were asked to explain herself I'm sure she'd rethink her statement just like we do when we say 'Kill em all' or something.

[elmono311]

What I don't like mostly is how they use just that quote for a reaction to a movie, like the media is trying to get Americans to start hating the Turks or something.

[disnut8]

The media is playing up the war big time.  The suicides at Gitmo made the front page here in Atlanta.  When our soliders are killed, it's back on Page 4.  Seems like the AJC will print anything negative and throw that on Page 1 with a screaming headline.