The presidency of Bush fils was probably the most incompetent government the USA ever has seen. And while even bigger nincompoops are waiting in the backdrop, waiting to be elected by intellectually under-exposed Yankees, the Americans and even more the rest of the world are still licking the wounds after that major desaster.
This film puts a mosaic brick to that enormous web of lies that to the invasion of Iraq. Somebody claims that tubes have been transported from Niger to Iraq and that these tubes are fit for nuclear weapons. This claim cannot be affirmed, even experts say that those tubes, if they ever existed, wouldn't be suitable for nuclear weapons. But - Goebbels already taught this - a lie needs to be restated many times and then eventually it will be the truth. Same in this case: they believe what they want to believe.
In Fair Game a diplomat who knows that the claims about nuclear weapons are wrong, publishes his knowledge in the New York Times. The White House discredits him as busybody and declares that his wife is a second-rate agent for the CIA. This disclosure has, of course, personal and professional consequences. Her contacts in Iraq are in danger; she is fired from the Agency. This part of the movie works less convincingly, at least for me.
Even though details of the actual incidents (Plame Affair, the convicted criminal Scotter Libby, Chief of Staff to Dickhead Cheney etc.) are irrelevant, as this movie can serve as a lesson of what might happen, when politicians get too drunk with their power).
6/10
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| Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) in a reflective mood |
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| Valerie Plame (Naomie Watts) doing agent's work |
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| And why are Bush II, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the bunch still in freedom? |
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