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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:30 AM
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Anyone catch "Lord of War"? I really liked it...
I caught the filmlast night and it's depressing in a sense but it had an important message. While I won't give away the details, Nicholas Cage is a small arms dealer.

At one point he's dealing with teh liberian dictator Batiste and he mentions something about democracy at which point Batiste laughs about the US having a kangaroo court and shows a newspaper with the 2k selection.

Overall, it's a great film. I also like that it points out at the end that while individual private small arms trafficers are a problem, the real profiteers of death are the US, UK, France, China, and Russia - the five permanent members of the SC.

I do wish it had mentioned one thing though - that the US actually backed out of a UN convention against small arms trafficing under this administration.
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