This is the war you never saw on CNN. Over the years, I've had my share of working on films depicting people getting beaten, shot, stabbed and blown up. My job, presumably, is to help make it all believable...to put you, dear viewer, in the drivers' seat so to speak. This film however, had no trouble speaking for itself when it came to conveying the intensity and brutality of 21st century warfare. If anything, I felt obliged to soften things up from time to time, to assure the audience that it was only a movie just like anything else on the menu at your friendly, neighborhood cineplex. And if it was a horror movie, I tried to sanitize it for your protection. Sure, it might roll around in your noggin for a couple days or so, but it wouldn't come back to haunt you for months, for years, for forever. Or would it? I suspect that the Iraq war will be the subject of great controversy long after our time. The film makers wisely and deftly side-stepped making any kind of judgement call and asked me to follow suit.