[lbo-talk] Schwarzenegger screens Terminator 3 at old Saddam palace

[dredmond at efn.org]

Quoting Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net>:


> " 'I play terminator, but you guys are the true terminators,' he told the
> soldiers."
> 
> An Austrian Bob Hope.

The ultimate irony is that he's more right than he'll ever know -- the
terminators are utterly evil, malevolent killing machines. "I want to be a
machine", said Hamlet in Heiner Mueller's "Hamletmachine", one of the great
meditations on the power of reactionary ideology to turn human beings into
repressive monsters.

-- DRR