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> [Nice piece about the film "Three Kings" and its director David O. Russell:]
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> Although "Three Kings" recounts Saddam's crimes against his own people
> and makes the case that the first gulf war should have removed him from
> power, Mr. Russell says he is fiercely opposed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
> In an e-mail he writes, "When I made the movie, I felt that the abandonment
> of the Iraqi people at the war's end further pointed to the hypocrisy of our
> intervention: `It's the oil, stupid, not the people. We don't care about
> the people or democracy, O.K.?'
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