"Saving Private Ryan" wasn't written by Tom Hanks.

I think the point here is that when the networks want to glorify war and warriors, they show this film unedited, yet refused to show other equally excellent films about war that are cautionary tales about the folly of war and the clay feet of the warriors, they either refuse to run the film, or run it edited to the point of it becoming unrecognisable, as they did with "Apocalypse Now".

I also think it is a really bad precedent to set, allowing what is essentially a propagandist type film glorifying war, to get "special dispensation" while everyone else using language pays the FCC fines.

But that's what the networks and the Bush FCC has gone and done, so from now on, we'll all get our war propaganda straight and pure, and everything else deemed too titillating for the FCC, especially when it has anything whatsoever to do with the devil's music, will get fined.