If Jason Bourne went to Iraq to find W. M. D.

He'd find it was a lie wrapped in a deception to create a smoke screen for the cover up of Blackbrier,

a rogue black budget CIA project.

Bad guys in our own government had slight of handed us into Iraq to try to obscure their

sinister crimes.

Julia Stiles would be forced to question her loyalty.

Pamela Landy would probably get a big promotion

by leveraging compromising intel on a senator.

Jason Bourne would personally beat the shit out of Uday and Kuseh

Hussein with a stack of

Posted notes. At the end we'd wonder if he'd lived or died and what it all meant

about whether we should trust our own government or not. That's a story that feels

like it may well have been on the drawing board when

Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass decided to make today's 2010 film.

It very much trades on the production style and the international super spy tone of the Borne films in order to try something pretty big

tell a semi-fictionalized version of the story of US troops in Iraq in 2003 being ordered to raid warehouses and compounds all over this

freshly invaded country, finding nothing and having it dawn on them that the second

invasion of Iraq was a lot more to do with George W Bush seeking personal

revenge and Donald Rumsfeld thinking he could make the world into a Neocon wet dream

than it did with an actual imminent threat to world safety. Also there was oil there.

Matt Damon plays chief warrant officer Roy Miller who becomes so disillusioned

with chasing down bad leads based on bogus intel, but he starts sticking his nose where neither

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