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Battle for Haditha (2007)
well filmed, but biased and inaccurate.
I'm going to make this short, the point in this comment is not to really review but to simply point out a few things.
First of all I would like to say the movie is filmed pretty well, the actors are pretty good, and the accuracy as far as props and whatnot are pretty good.
The biggest problem I have with this movie is the title is wrong. I find it extremely disrespectful that they used "they battle for haditha" as the name. Anyone who knows anything on the subject is aware that the battle for haditha was an operation in which the marines took control of the city. Not one shot was fired but (correct me if i am wrong) 8 marines were killed. Now, using the name of an operation in which marines risked there lives, and lost them, to take over the city and only detained people for what is otherwise known as the "haditha massacre" is ridiculous and disrespectful.
The second problem I have with the movie is as far as the event it is fairly inaccurate and is biased. Failing to even try to cover both sides of the story until perhaps the end the movie got on my nerves after a while. It was not 1 Humvee that got blown up and 1 killed, 2 wounded. It was 1 AAV that got blown up. Killing 5 and the sixth found slaughtered a few miles down the road. Whether or not the marines purposely killed the civilians, whether it was routine and they treated the houses as extremely hostile or not or whether insurgents killed them we will never know. But as the movie points out the man Told the little girl (9 years old not 12) what to say. which is entirely possible. Also note that the Man who made and promoted the tape was of the Hamurabi human rights group, furthering the idea that it could be a setup.
I just want anyone to know, as they should. When and after watching this movie please don't treat it as the truth. I am not saying it happened or the opposite happened. But the movie only covers one side of the story and is inaccurate as it is only showing that 1 marine died in the face of the iraqi civilian deaths.Too many people these days, watch movies like this and treat it as fact and then go around arguing with people and telling them bs when they have no idea what they are talking about nor are they even aware they don't have the events name right...