Subversive Silver Screen?

Fox News
Friday, January 06, 2006


The film "Syriana" is based on the true story of a CIA operative sent to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and the agent's near murder by Palestinian terrorists from Hezbulah. But in the hands of actor/producer George Clooney, Americans are shown to be greedy and corrupt while suicide bombers are presented as freedom fighters.

"They are, in a way, more sympathetic, but I think that's important because if you're going to fight a war on terror which is not a state that you can go and bomb, you need to understand what it is that creates the people that would do such horrible things rather than labeling them 'evil-doers,'" said Clooney. Watch the video.