Gulf War 2: Good Morning Baghdad!

After Oper­a­tion Red Dawn nabbed Saddam, we now have a camo-wear­ing Robin WIl­li­ams enter­tain­ing troops and actu­ally saying *that* *line*.

Did he not watch his own film? I am ter­ri­fied to try talk­ing to 10 year-olds and asking them to explain to me the dif­fer­ence between fic­tion and real­ity. If the Gulf War did not happen [1] the first time around because it was medi­at­ised, the sequel is so far-fetched we’re act­ively won­der­ing what the script-writers were thinking.

[1] Baudril­lard, I believe