Body of Lies

The movie Body of Lies was OK. Leonardo DiCaprio did a great job but the movie itself is fiction and propaganda. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a friendly American: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/friendly-american.html

Well as friendly as a CIA Agent can be when their career is based on murder and deception. The character he plays seems to care about people unlike his superior in the movie. Russell Crowe was way better in Gladiator but once again it shows his talent as an actor playing different roles. He was great in A Beautiful Mind as well.

However, the character he plays in this movie is your typical arrogant I don’t care about anyone else on the planet and I’m not even going to pretend I care type. His acting was good but it’s hard to like a character like that. The movie was total propaganda as it glorified the CIA and demonized the entire Muslim religion.

The movie came right out and implied that the Muslim religion wants to either convert or kill all infidels. That's just plain hate propaganda. Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, they have missionaries. I don’t see to many Muslim missionaries out there. You might see a few handing out stuff in a city centre but it’s pretty low key.

As far as killing all infidels I think they get bent out of shape when they feel threatened or when you invade their country. True they don’t allow Christian missionaries but neither do the Jews in Israel and we surely don’t invade them because they want to preserve and protect their religious heritage. Muslims and Jews both believe in the Old Testament which states "Vex not the stranger that sojourneth with thee." Muslims and Jews who want to wipe the other group off the face of the earth are not adhering to their religious teachings.

The movie was basically more Iraq propaganda. There’s one scene where DiCaprio gets defensive explaining why he referred to the situation in Iraq and not the war with Iraq. He refers to the unfortunate situation where suicide bombers are killing people in the market but fails to mention a word about how the US invaded and destabilized Iraq based on a series of lies. There were no WMD and the MI6 planted that and false information about nuclear weapons in the media: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/apr/08/uk.iraq

The movie didn’t mention a word about those lies. Of course we know that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Even Bush admitted that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QxNiKsYFg&feature=related

The movie didn’t mention a word about all the False flag murders in Operation Northwoods, the USS Liberty and in Operation Gladio. Not a word. The movie did portray a VERY watered down false flag act when they took bodies from the morgue and planted a bomb in a US embassy and blew it up blaming an innocent man hoping a real terrorist would contact him so they could catch the real terrorist.

Using bodies from the morgue is very different that what they did in Operation Gladio and proposed in Operation Northwoods. However, the character Leonardo DiCaprio plays is very likeable. He does seem to care about people and he even falls in love with an Arab Muslim woman from Iran working in Jordan.

All in all I think the acting was very good, the story behind the scenes was good but the overwhelming propaganda disappointing.