Favorite Oscar® moment - "Hearts and Minds"

[custardaghost]

RIP Bert Schneider

[megatroll]

Nothing new here.

The USA are a fascist military empire which massacres and exploits the poor and helpless of this world in order to expand to cover the planet with their bases (the US equivalent of imperialism).

The population is brainwashed into radical nationalists who worship the military as a godlike entity and oppose any questioners.

They install and back dictators until the time is right to "harvest" the land, then they bomb, invade and occupy it.

Americans = Disgusting pigs!

[InkWellShadow]

Brilliant and shocking documentary. They captured the ignorance of the american troops perfectly.

[daijme]

Well, everyone there are ignorant.

[idontfkinknow1234]

@InkWellShadow Troops don't have to be intelligent or believe in what they're fighting for, their job is to kill and obey orders that is all.

[sja11]

and the Vietnam war was based on the same faulty type of intelligence that got us into Iraq.

Communism was doomed to fail and our country fell for the false bravado of that paper tiger for 40 f-ing years because of our faulty intelligence.

Its not hard to conclude that we fucked up in every way imaginable in the Cold War

[sja11]

im sorry, are people actually advocating the Vietnam war still?

all of a sudden we fought in Vietnam because of principles and convictions?

What a load of bullshit. We fought in Vietnam because of Idiot warmongering generals who had way too much say in the foreign policy of the United States.

Why the hell should we care about what type of government Vietnam chooses to employ?

Its a simple case of a country being controlled by its military technology industries.

[InkWellShadow]

@sja11 agreed. people need to crack open a history book before opening their mouths.

[Weasler455]

@sja11 Yeah, we went into Vietnam just for the fun of it.

[Hickey66]

Why should your name be mentioned? An't we got enough of humble people - don't believe one.

[zemogfamily]

sad, the comment on how "amazing" the movie is, and watching it for a "class" on the vietnam war. Taught by who?

God Bless the memory of a former U.S.A that had and could act on principles and conviction.

Now we fund the killing of the unborn all over the world in the spirit of 'hope and change.'

[JudiG]

You are quite gullible to buy into the baseless rhetoric. Shame.

[oldjarheadvet]

The audiance exploding into cheering when the news broke that Saigon had fallen to the communists. Jane Fonda took an impromptu bow cheered by the crowd.  Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra took flak from the 'liberal elite Hollywood crowd'. Ironic, the S. Vietnamese will never know free speech. You should see how the liberal San Francisco City folks treat their 'problem' S. Vietnamese immigrants. Such hypocracy, pure hypocracy. Tinsil Town, all in the name of money and fame.

[Scanshow]

If they made a movie about this chick she'd be played by Illeana Douglas.

[GWTW4EVR]

You're so right--they sound so much alike!

[missuniworld]

Y finalmente los Óscars tienen presencia propia en el YOUTUBE....

[ravisaks]

haha..it was her favorite moment because she was mentioned in the sppech! how self-gratifying!

[Finelight12]

Those editors ey? lol

[Gilch30]

I would like to see how you react when someone mentions your name at the Oscars.

[oldjarheadvet]

And NOBODY gives a thought to the S. Vietnamese or the Cambodians.

Mirror mirror on the wall, whose the ugliest of them all....