NEWS: Team America Rolls Into Fallujah

POLITICS: Team America Rolls Into Fallujah

The theme song to Team America: World Police (America, Fuck Yeah!) hilariously skewers gung-ho patriotism and the US military. And yet this very song was part of the military’s psy-op in Fallujah.

Ironic? Obnoxious? Hilarious? I post, you decide.

evidence of the inability to "get it".

there were guys in the theatre shouting "yeah! team america!" and "team america, fuck yeah!" when i saw this film.

people are stupid.

arg! this continuing lack of a sense of irony or satire, or even co-opting satirical irony for their own ends, is one of the things that bothers me most about this administration and those who support it.

cf. Bush's not-so-hilarious Where's the WMD? slide presentation at a National Press dinner event thingy
cf. Bush talking about how Kerry makes him wanna make a face during the debates
cf. My republican family mailing around pics of two dykey women holding "Lesbians Against Bush" signs during a protest -- as if the dykes themselves weren't being ironic

This administration just keeps laying terds all over the place and then keeps jumping up and down in their own shit, until people just think it's normal to jump up and down in shit.

i mean come on...

i think its funny and probly very effective in psy-ops, that said i still dont belive this war is right but hey they gotta do what they gotta do to win

WOW.

i could only hope that it were followed by 'the final countdown', or any song by david allen coe

nah, the final countdown is by EUROPE.

Ditto.

I think its funny. Completely rad.

Grow up kids.

Yeah, I bet it's really effective blasting music sung in English.

Those psiop guys and there taste in music

[Edited on Nov 16, 2004 2:08AM]

Maybe the psiop guys were being ironic or maybe they know something we don't. When translated "fuck yeah" could mean something like "will eat you."

And even if it doesn't, this is still hilarious (in a really fucked up way).

i didn't mean to imply that it was by DAC, otherwise i would've said 'or any other song by'

[Edited on Nov 15, 2004 9:49PM]

He was pointing out that it's by a band named EUROPE though, not that you thought it was David Allen Coe

I think it's nice that they finally retired the hair metal for this purpose. It's also a great song to listen to while having wild, kinky sex.

i know, i just meant that with a name like europe, none of their songs are going to get any play in iraq.

How about pennies from heaven when AC130s are doing a fire missions or when shelling starts Wagners' Ride of the Valkries

[Edited on Nov 15, 2004 by Tannhauser]

it's good that the soldiers have a sense of humuor. that kind of self-deprication can make it easier to cope with what they're doing.

thats the best the psi ops guys can do!?!?!?

play the darkness!!!!!!
i'd gladly forsake my god to stop hearing that band.

You thought Full Metal Jacket was Pro-War, didn't you?

War movies' intended effects are subjective. I saw FMJ and still wanted to be a marine. That bootcamp story was a sunny day at disneyland compared to what I had been through before I got out of grade school. I just plain don't have a lot compassion for people in general let alone those that would presumable want to kill me.

[Edited on Nov 15, 2004 by Tannhauser]

It's kinda like those little 8th grade white kids dressed in Fubu Blaring pretty fly for a white guy...

That is DAMNED HILARIOUS. Mainly because I knew a lot of people like that.

i declare the horse dead. you may stop beating it now.