A government conspiracy to takeover another country and their oil fields? Sounds familiar. Evil bureaucrats and gullible reporters too? That’s original. And special operators who will kill anyone they are told to. Isn’t that special? So let us set aside the heavy handed political bias and see what’s left. There’s Matt Damon running around in full combat gear and Greg Kinnear being a government tool. They play their parts well. You want Matt to win and Greg to lose and I guess it works out that way. We see poor noble civilians making their own case for regime change. OK, I get it. There is some action and some suspense, but not enough to carry this film. Morons will see this as a historical docudrama I’m afraid. Watch a Frontline episode or any of dozens of documentaries about the Iraq war, or better yet read John Keegan’s book on it. You’ll be better informed.  Were there WMD’s? We didn’t find any did we? We can’t seem to find a birth certificate either. Does it mean one doesn’t exist? Maybe that’s the subject of another movie, but I kind of doubt it.