I think it's a great experiment. It's unsympathetically real. One thing though, one of the soldiers with the camera says at one point that if it is going to solve the problem one can use a nuclear weapon. I was really taken aback and horrified by this; I think that nothing, and nothing whatsoever, justifies using nuclear weapons. I understand that this might have been said in a moment of intense anger or fear for one's life, but in all honesty I just cannot get myself to be OK with this. The other thing is that one of the soldiers toward the end of the film says something like you should either suggest a solution to the problem or shut up; so if I think it was a huge mistake to go to Iraq I should not voice that opinion. I, as a person, was genuinely offended by this. We live in a democracy and no one, and I mean no one, has the right to silence others who disagree.
Review of The War Tapes
