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Haditha Massacre Victims Outraged as U.S. Marines Go Free

2008-07-18T16:37:48Z

Haditha Massacre Victims' Kin Outraged as U.S. Marines Go Free

A U.S. military judge last week dismissed charges against another Marine connected to the massacre of twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. Of the eight Marines originally charged in the case, only one still faces prosecution. Criminal charges have been dismissed against six of the Marines and a seventh Marine was acquitted. We speak with McClatchy's Baghdad bureau chief, Leila Fadel, who recently traveled to Haditha to interview survivors of the massacre.

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Nick Broomfield - World Against War Demo 15 March 2008

2008-07-16T10:50:50Z

Nick Broomfield - World Against War Demo 15 March 2008

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Nick Broomfield and Sami Ramadani discuss Battle for Haditha

2008-07-26T18:27:15Z

**Next Q&A on Battle of Haditha with Nick Broomfield at the Renoir Cinema on 1 Feb**
Around 200 people attended a special screening of Nick Broomfield's intense new film about the massacre of Haditha at the Curzon Soho. Iraqi exile Sami Ramadani joined Nick for a question and Answer session after the screening.

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Inside Iraq - Battle for Haditha - 15 Feb 08 - Pt 1

2008-06-17T09:37:20Z

On November 19, 2005, US marines killed 24 people, many of them women and children, in Haditha. Nick Broomfield's 'Battle for Haditha' portrays the Haditha killings. The film is due to be released in 2008.

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Inside Iraq - Battle for Haditha - 15 Feb 08 - Pt 2

2008-06-06T03:29:45Z

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The Fabulous Picture Show - Battle For Haditha -26Jan08-Pt 1

2008-06-10T15:36:27Z

An Iraq War drama based on actual events of 19 November 2005.

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The Fabulous Picture Show - Battle For Haditha -26Jan08-Pt 2

2008-06-10T15:37:13Z

An Iraq War drama based on actual events of 19 November 2005.

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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

2008-02-21T12:09:08Z

Once Again, Our Country Needs Winter Soldiers

War crimes "encouraged?"

Nick Broomfield and Sami Ramadani discuss Battle for Haditha

2008-06-12T21:31:10Z

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Around 200 people attended a special screening at Curzon Soho of Nick Broomfield's intense new film about the massacre of Haditha. Iraqi exile Sa Around 200 people attended a special screening of Nick Broomfield's intense new film about the massacre of Haditha. Iraqi exile Sami Ramadani joined Nick for a question and Answer session after the screening.

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O’Reilly Praises Serial Killer Charlie Manson’s Patriotism, Then Accepts Money to Promote “Anti-American” Movie

2008-07-09T12:50:02Z

Seems like O’Reilly can’t pick a topic to assail before he’s quickly and easily called out as a hypocrite, liar, or lunatic. His recent jihad against the film Redacted might hit the trifecta.

As some of you know, BOR has been screeching and peeing himself about Redacted (directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Mark Cuban), which tells a fictionalized version of the Al-Mahmudiyah massacre where a group of American soldiers raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killed members of her family.

As expected, BOR dredged up the republican “endangering the soldiers/hurting America” clichés . See, US soldiers actually raping and murdering a young girl and killing her family is fine, but news reports and a movie’s adaptation of it endangers soldiers. Just like US soldiers and contractors (with the approval and encouragement of the Bush administration) actually torturing and unlawfully imprisoning Iraqis is fine, but movies and news reports talking about it endanger soldiers. Just like Murtha saying the US soldiers responsible for Haditha killed civilians in cold blood (which they did) apparently means that Murtha must be saying that all US soldiers kill civilians in cold blood. You’d have to be an idiot to believe this stuff, which is why BOR says it to his viewers. He thinks they’re idiots. Sadly, BOR went on:

There is no excuse for “Redacted.” The incident is based on a true story, but those who committed the crimes are in prison for life. You don’t celebrate this kind of aberration with a movie — you don’t brand the U.S. military with this stigma.

Charles Manson is an American too, but does he represent this country in any way? Of course not. And I believe even the odious Manson would not make a movie like “Redacted.”

Cuban and Redacted definitely benefited from all the attention and free press BOR provided the movie, but Cuban wanted to take it further. So he bought ad time for Redacted specifically during the Factor. And the ad aired. Twice. This is what Cuban said about it on his blog:

I had someone call FoxNews and tell them specifically, unequivocally that we wanted to run an ad for the movie Redacted. The same movie Bill O’Reilly was so upset about.

They said no problem. Do you want to run the ads in both the live show and the repeat?

Our first reaction was that this was just the sales department and at some point, someone at FoxNews would step in and stop the ads from running. The call to say they were stopping the ads never came.

The ad ran in both shows. Here is a link with Bill's smiling face at the end.

So Mr. O’Reilly, the king of the O’Reilly Factor, the man who called this movie Anti American and said erroneously it could cause harm to American Troops, was willing to overlook those points and take our money to promote the movie.