"We dropped a bomb on it, and now we party in it," says a soldier in the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. "the Gunners," referring to Uday Hussein's pleasure palace. Filmmaker Michael Tucker spent two months with the soldiers, documenting their lives. Juxtaposing typically fallacious Donald Rumsfeld comments with raw freestyle raps by the Gunners, the film contrasts Defense Department deceptions with the moment-to-moment challenges of soldiers fresh out of high school. A chilling, powerful film.

Husband-and-wife directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein just train their cameras on the soldiers of the Army's 2/3 Field Artillery, known as the Gunners, and let them rip. Their base is Baghdad's Azimiya Palace, built by Saddam Hussein for his son Uday to enjoy the pool, the putting green, the hookers. "We dropped a bomb on it, now we party in it," says one soldier. But for every dip in the pool, the Gunners must launch dozens of raids on Baghdad homes, looking for Improvised Explosive…