Oliver Stone's "W." Heavy on the Oedipal angle. Who knows? Poppy didn't go to Bahgdad so I'll finish the job for which he was not enough of a man. "You have 48 hours to leave." "Bring it on!"
Presumably there is a real reason for the invasion, and the family drama is a better candidate than WMD.
The movie is a cartoon, which doesn't mean it's unfair to W. Colin Powell is probably jealous of all the face time Jeffrey Wright, who plays him in the movie, gets with Josh Brolin's Bush. Plus, in the movie he gets to say "Fuck you" to Cheney.
Notable lacunae include Rumsfeld's prancing performances in the Pentagon briefing room and Bush, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, mocking condemned killer Karla Faye Tucker's plea for clemency. Thandie Newton, as Condoleezza Rice, doesn't have much to say, which seems about right. I'm not sure whether the young Laura Welch, on the occasion of meeting her future husband at a Texas barbecue, expressed a preference for the Democratic party while fondling an unlit cigarette.
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