Life is imitating art again. There’s this from The Guardian, saying that Bush can’t send troops to Iraq that he hasn’t got:
A short-term surge could create a window for Iraqi forces to develop and take over, but it would have to be temporary. In any case, the US does not have enough troops to sustain a surge for long. Sending back troops who have only just returned from Iraq will be catastrophic for morale and rushing troops in without extensive training would preclude them from developing the new mindset that Petraeus advocates. If US troop levels are raised, it really would be the last throw of the dice.
And then there’s this from the BBC:
US Army urges dead to re-enlist
The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.
But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.
Does it by chance remind you of anything?
A horror film with a political message, HOMECOMING comes from director Joe Dante (GREMLINS, THE HOWLING). With a war going on abroad and an election coming up, the Republican party is anxious about getting enough votes to seal the deal. But when they wish for the soldiers who died in the war to come back to life and speak on their behalf, they never expect it to actually happen. Rising from their graves, the undead men and women set out to tell their own version of events, and to get revenge by voting the party that sent them to war out of office.
The Bush administration’d better be careful what they ask for, they might just get it.
More erudite discussion of the role of zombie movies in the antiwar movement here.
