Instead of feeding our already considerable paranoia, why doesn’t Stone make a movie about the CIA & British overthrow of Iran’s moderate, secular, democratically-elected government in 1953?  Nah.  That would be history, not fiction, and help Americans understand why the U.S. is not trusted in Iran.  Better to keep us entertained, but ignorant, the easier to lie us into yet another war for empire.

And the point of making the film would be what - to show gas stations exploding. Oliver, if you want to show someone who’s crazy as a shithouse rat running a country just go down to Pennsylvania Avenue. Save yourself the trip to Iran.

Is this effort going to be as lamely saccrine as that 9/11 tripe, now available for $9.99 at the bargain bin at Walgreens or wherever? I liked Oliver Stone when he made 1960’s movies about Nam, Nixon, JFK, and even Jim Morrison. But that 9/11 movie got on my nerves. I had so hoped he was going to be the movie maker to go against the fear grain to take up the mantle of truth where Michael Moore left it off. Not that I consider Ahmadinejad to be great satan, I just don’t think Oliver Stone is sufficiently in his conspiracy theorist groove these days. And, I am not anxious to hear cutesy musings about Ahmadinejad’s childhood, adolescence, and young manhood as a tool of some religious state of apoplectic absolutism that makes the Siths look like the Telatubbies.

After watching that Stone 9/11 flick, I left the theater feeling the same way I did that day I accompanied my niece’s kindergarten class to the zoo, and the baboons flung poop at us. That night at the movies, I left the theater as grateful Stone’s effort to make me feel good was just a meaningless flick as I had been for the thick-paned safety glass that sheilded me that fateful afternoon at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

Hollywood is completely overrun by devil worshippers. If you can’t tell, it’s because they’re gradually turning you into one too.

Look for patterns, the patterns are there. Patterns have meaning. Don’t brush it off.