Director Brian De Palma enjoys fighting the wars and conflicts engaged by the U.S. Military from his ivory tower in Hollywood. Mr. De Palma should embed with Rangers or Marines and get a real taste of war, which would pass for reality, something De Palma fails to completely register in his mind.

“Redacted”, a new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.

Did Hitler cause the erstwhile moviegoers to become tearful when the Nazi’s murdered millions, a significant part of the European history? Is De Palma simply an anti-war nut or missing out on the brutality of Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot…..should we go on?

No, it’s Brian De Palma’s goal to denounce the U.S. Military in the enhanced version of John Kerry and Jane Fonda by making movies and showing them at festivals across the pond.

The fools at Reuters write:

Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

De Palma, 66, whose “Casualties of War” in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film’s images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.

“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people,” he told reporters after a press screening.

Reality of war that Mr. De Palma found on the Internet! How did he corroborate and fact check his material? Did Mr. De Palma include the beheadings that are on the Internet, performed openly by al-Qaeda in Iraq? Did he show the child, baked in an oven by al-Qaeda, and served up for lunch to the child’s family? Did De Palma show film of the Hussein rape and torture rooms, all available on the Internet?

No, of course De Palma wants to show the reality of war, not the brutality of regimes and dictatorships who stay in power by oppressing their citizens and intimidating them by filling up mass graves, not before raping wives, daughter, sons and running fathers through giant human shredders.

Halfway between documentary and fiction, “Redacted” draws on soldiers’ home-made war videos, blogs and journals and footage posted on YouTube, reflecting changes in the way the media cover the war.

“In Vietnam, when we saw the images and the sorrow of the people we were traumatizing and killing, we saw the soldiers wounded and brought back in body bags. We see none of that in this war,” De Palma said.

“It’s all out there on the Internet, you can find it if you look for it, but it’s not in the major media. The media is now really part of the corporate establishment,” he said.

It’s difficult to understand the mind of a Left-Wing Nut and Socialist Liberal who apparently hates America enough to showcase his films in Europe, denouncing the military all the way back to Vietnam based on “information’ dug up on the Internet.

Did De Palma include documentary footage of troops landing at Iwo Jima, did he show footage from D-Day and Normandy? Did De Palma reference the heroes lying dead on the beaches from fighting to stop tyranny that threatened the freedom of the world?

The answer is NO, because the mentality on the left is to hate the Armed Forces of the United States and depict them as murderers and rapists while ignoring their heroic acts of unselfish behavior to liberal oppressed people and give them a chance at freedom.

“When I went out to find the pictures, I said (to the media) give me the pictures you can’t publish,” he said, adding that because of legal dangers he too had to “edit” the material.

“Everything that is in the movie is based on something I found that actually happened. But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can’t use that because it’s real and we may get sued,” De Palma said.

“So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real.”

It’s real and had to be edited and fictionalize it to depict the reality De Palma thinks is accurate. De Palma believes the mainstream media is failing to print the real story but he doesn’t mention the embedded, independent journalists like Michael Yon, Bill Roggio and his group at The Fourth Rail, this would be too real and too true. It would bring out the facts and he might get sued.

The film, shot in Jordan with a little known cast, ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians killed and their faces blacked out for legal reasons. Does De Palma tell the audience how these Iraqi’s were killed? He let’s the audience assume it was the U.S. Military.

We ask why Mr. De Palma didn’t film in Iraq, in the provinces where al-Qaeda and insurgents brutalize the real population and depict the real suffering of the Iraqi people? That would be too difficult for Mr. De Palma and might expose the truth about war and terrorism.