Jim Fetzer: Zero Dark Thirty. The deeper, darker truths!

A film that may even take the Academy Award for "Best Picture of 2012"raises serious moral issues, glorifies a political stunt, and is based on an historical fiction. It is the latest in Obama propaganda. Osama bin Laden was not killed on 2 May 2011, during a raid on a compound in Pakistan. He actually died in Afghanistan, on or about 15 December 2001, and he was buried there in an unmarked grave. Local obituaries reported Osama's death at the time. Even FOX News subsequently confirmed it. He was buried in an unmarked grave, in accord with Muslim traditions. He did not die in Pakistan. Nick Kollerstrom has published about it, "Osama bin Laden: 1957-2001". David Ray Griffin has a book about it, "Osama bin Laden: 1957-2001". David Ray Griffin has a book about it, Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive. And Scholars for 9/11 Truth has written about it. the film suggests that torture produces actionable intelligence, when virtually every military and intelligence expert will confirm that you are told, what those being tortured think you want to hear, to stop the pain. As TIME and The Huffington Post have reported, the film's depiction of torture has created a controversy, that may affect its chances for an Oscar. Among the most notable commentaries is one by Matt Tiabbi. A columnist for Rolling Stone, he has raised serious questions: "If it would have been dishonest to leave torture out of the film entirely, how is it not dishonest to leave out how generally ineffective it was, how morally corrupting, how totally it enraged the entire Arab world, how often we used it on people we knew little or nothing about, how often it resulted in deaths, or a hundred other facts? Bigelow put it in, which was "honest," but it seems an eerie coincidence that she was "honest" about torture in pretty much exactly the way a CIA interrogator would have told the story, without including much else." Osama was "our man in Afghanistan" even more important, the political context has been all but lost to history. Obama was on the hot seat for an apparently fake birth certificate, having troops in Pakistan, and not closing Guantanamo.