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LONDON, Sept. 1 — The time is October 2007, and America is in anguish, rent by the war in Iraq and by a combustive restiveness at home. Leaving a hotel in Chicago after making a speech while a huge antiwar protest rages nearby, President Bush is suddenly struck down, killed by a sniper’s bullet.
-- Sarah Lyall for The NY Times
Now, don't get too excited, in case you raced past that October 2007 fact. It's only a British movie. One recalls that there was also an American novel that created a little splash about the prospective assassination of President Bush. Our Dubya has probably spurred more assassination fantasies than any other president, with the possible exception of Lincoln.
We are assured, though, that this is not some wet dream advocating assassination. Peter Dale, head of the station broadcasting the film, tells us that it is a docudrama that examines the underlying issues involved:
The movie, Mr. Dale said, is “a very powerful examination of what changes are taking place in America” as a result of its foreign policy.
“I believe that the effects of the wars that are being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said, “are being felt in many ways in the multiracial communities in America and Britain in the number of soldiers who don’t come home, and that people are beginning to ask: ‘When will these body bags stop coming back? Why are we there? When will it stop?’”
Perhaps. I only wonder if the audience will be cheering.
And there is the sobering thought of a President Cheney.
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LONDON, Sept. 1 — The time is October 2007, and America is in anguish, rent by the war in Iraq and by a combustive restiveness at home. Leaving a hotel in Chicago after making a speech while a huge antiwar protest rages nearby, President Bush is suddenly struck down, killed by a sniper’s bullet.
-- Sarah Lyall for The NY Times
Now, don't get too excited, in case you raced past that October 2007 fact. It's only a British movie. One recalls that there was also an American novel that created a little splash about the prospective assassination of President Bush. Our Dubya has probably spurred more assassination fantasies than any other president, with the possible exception of Lincoln.
We are assured, though, that this is not some wet dream advocating assassination. Peter Dale, head of the station broadcasting the film, tells us that it is a docudrama that examines the underlying issues involved:
The movie, Mr. Dale said, is “a very powerful examination of what changes are taking place in America” as a result of its foreign policy.
“I believe that the effects of the wars that are being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said, “are being felt in many ways in the multiracial communities in America and Britain in the number of soldiers who don’t come home, and that people are beginning to ask: ‘When will these body bags stop coming back? Why are we there? When will it stop?’”
Perhaps. I only wonder if the audience will be cheering.
And there is the sobering thought of a President Cheney.
