DVD Recommedation - In The Loop

I don't have time for a full review of this film this week, but I did want to give it a quick plug.  Having just watched the DVD, it instantly became my favorite film of last year (and one I should not have neglected in the theater.)  The film, directed by Armondo Iannucci, is a deliciously profane farce about the rush to a "fictional" war in the Middle East as negotiated between politicians, military brass, spin doctors, and other miscreants from Britain and the U.S.  Imagine watching dozens of scenes as gloriously, brutally hilarious as the Alec Baldwin "brass balls" scene from Glengarry Glen Ross, only delivered with a more soaring virtuosity.  The film is filled with a diverse cast of back-stabbing, duplicitous self-consumed sociopaths, self-consumed patsies, and self-consumed social climbers for whom integrity is viewed as the vilest example of naive weakness.  In short, it proves (much like the Daily Show) that the best path to truth in our current world of failed media is satire and comedy.  It is an expression of pure, exasperated nihilism, but who would have thought that watching the arsonists of a world on fire could be so damn much fun?