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Internet billionaire Mark Cuban is joining Brian DePalma in an effort to make the U.S. troops in Iraq look like "monsters."

Cuban has decided to bring the propaganda film to theaters through his Magnolia Pictures. Cuban's company will finance, develop and distribute the film.

Here's how Debbie Schlussel described the so-called project in February:

"REDACTED, a war drama based on the recent events surrounding the rape and murder of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the killing of three of her family members by four US soldiers. Oddly enough, this will be the second De Palma movie to deal with such a thing; his CASUALTIES OF WAR [DS: starring--surprise!--Sean "Spicoli" Penn] centered around five U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War, four of whom kidnap and rape a young villager."

Pat Dollard describes the reason it goes beyond telling a story, to being an outright lie:

"In short, he would have to make his “troops-as-monsters” conceit appear to be typical of the troops, not atypical. This reveals a desire to create something that is nothing short of a willful and intentional smear built upon a lie. It also means that he decided not to look at Iraq for what it was, but to find something - anything - in it that would allow him to advance his propaganda campaign."

The two are trying to pass this off as a documentary, when in fact, none of the troops pictured in the film are real.

Dollard adds that DePalma said "going in it was his intention to make a film that would nauseate the American people, and thereby lead to a US withdrawal from Iraq. Well the only way for him to pull that off is if his film makes the case that the anomolous rape it fictionalizes is not actually an anomoly, but a 'typical' snapshot of the US military’s behavior."

Neither Cuban or DePalma have ever been to Iraq or have any first hand knowledge of real U.S. troops.

Of course, when you consider Cuban hired the disgraced Dan Rather for his tiny TV network, you can see where his priorities lie.

Oh yeah, Cuban also recently said the Internet is "dead and boring."