The Turks, like the French, are nominally our allies, but they don't have to like it.

In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine-gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison -- where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv.

Not exactly good clean fun.

Yet it is somewhat understandable considering a incident, unpublicized here in the U.S. but yet a major blow to U.S.-Turkey relations.

"Valley of the Wolves Iraq" opens with a true story: On July 4, 2003, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, troops from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade raided and ransacked a Turkish special forces office, threw hoods over the heads of 11 Turkish special forces officers and held them in custody for more than two days.

The Americans said they had been looking for Iraqi insurgents and unwittingly rounded up the Turks because they were not in uniform. Still, the incident damaged Turkish-U.S.. relations and hurt Turkish national pride. Turks traditionally idolize their soldiers; many enthusiastically send their sons off for mandatory military service.

What isn't understandable is how two American actors could take prominent roles in the film.

Billy Zane plays the evil American commander who makes Saddam's boys look restrained by comparison and Gary Busey, hanging onto the bottom of the 'D' list by his fingernails, decided it would be a good career move to embody a long-standing blood libel--the Jew who steal your organs and sells them for money.

I think if your career has sunk to the depths where these are the only parts you are offered, you should consider selling real-estate instead.