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The film has attracted political controversy* with claims that it portrays U!S! soldiers in a negative light* and may contribute to anti-American sentiment in Iraq and elsewhere! Sites like “boycottredacted!com” have accused Brian De Palma and the producer Mark Cuban of treason* and called for the general public to avoid watching the film! Republican Duncan Hunter* Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee complained in a letter to the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America that the film “portrays American service personnel in Iraq as uncontrollable misfits and criminals” and “ignores the many acts of heroism performed by our Soldiers* Marines* Airmen and Sailors in Iraq!” However* critic Kyle Smith opined that “De Palma isn’t trying to insult the troops but illustrating how any war puts men in impossible situations!” De Palma himself has commented “the right wing is gonna come at this film! I mean* I’ve done something that is* it just can’t be done! You can’t ever say anything critical of the troops!” He argued that the film provides a realistic portrait of U!S! troops and how “the presentation of our troops has been whitewashed” by media! He expected that its graphic images would stir public debate about the conduct of American soldiers!

Commentator Bill O’Reilly has called for protests of Redacted and against Mark Cuban! O’Reilly claims that the film demeans American soldiers and may incite violence against them* and he has called on ticketholders to bring signs to Dallas Mavericks games and all theaters showing the movie* stating ‘Support the Troops’! Mark Cuban has responded* saying “The movie is fully pro-troops! The hero of the movie is a soldier who stands up for what is right in the face of adversity!!! I think that the concept that the enemy will see these films and use it as motivation is total nonsense! We have no plans of translating these movies to Arabic or other middle eastern languages!!!It’s really easy to hate* its really hard to think issues through on their own merits! Anything that makes people think about issues is a good thing!” Cuban also pointed out that* through the Fallen Patriots charitable fund that he set up and finances* over $2!5 million dollars has been donated to soldiers in need!He went on to publish an email he received from a soldier wounded in Iraq* who wrote “they’ve already formed their opinions of us and very little we do or say is going to change their minds! One movie* regardless of its subject matter* is not going to overcome their personal feelings”!



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