Last Saturday, Brits opened their newspapers to a front page picture of a digitally manipulated assasination of President G.W. Bush. He was supposedly killed by a Syrian sniper. It was a scene taken from " Death of a President"It will be shown next month on the British TV independent channel More4. The White House was asked to comment. Emily Lawrence replied, " We are not commenting because it [film]doesn't dignify [sic] a response."
Ummm. Wouldn't dignify it, huh ? What is worse? Bush lying about Iraq's WMD and complicity in 9/11? Or manipulating a Bush image to open a discussion of America's aggressive, barbaric policies in the Middle East ? Some might object that the protocols of good taste and customs were breached with the film. But what about Bush breaching custom and protocols with a "preemptive war" against an innocent country?
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