This...this, is worth 45 minutes of your time. Sorry if it's a dupe, but...it's <i>funny</i>, real-politic as all hell, giddily subversive and just <b><i>ringing</i></b> with a lot of stuff that we Americans mightn't have considered just yet...
This is a totally different take on things, really lefty English stuff, and well worth the viewing just to see the state of interaction between television, multimedia, straight London legit theater, and the Internet....to me, a very interesting and rich melding....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159&q=newman%27sFor me, it did a brilliant balancing act between the effects of our policies, how they actually spring from our history in the region (not to mention England's) and how today is connected to 100 years ago in terms of this war serving our well-established self-interest in Iraq.
The power of performance and the Dramatic Arts is as old as Greece, and you'll see it on full throtle at the link above.
I've probably asked myself about the economic justifications for war and why they're just not discussed in the MSM *anywhere*, *ever*, probably ten times in the hours since viewing this....
Nominate this; kick it. If you don't have 45 minutes just now....I mean....holy shit; just check it out...fantastic stuff....