Why We Fight
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: John McCain, Susan Eisenhower, Richard Perle, Gore Vidal, Wilton Sekzer
Directed By: Eugene Jarecki
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396138940
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Running Time: 99
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Summary: Excelent movie
Comment: It is a very well written documentary. Some of the interviewees are great minds of USA. This work not only hits Bush, as many others documentaries do, but also criticizes all of the exterior relations of USA.
The theme is one of the most important of these times: US War. Where Globalization is just a nice word for Imperialism. As with global warning, it seems that we are loosing our fight agains it. Even the presidents of USA seem to be pupets of this miltary machine.
Great audiovisual material, great interviews, great final message, great movie.
Americans have to do something.
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Summary: Incisive and Balanced, A Must See Documentary.
Comment: My uncle and I were discussing this documentary and a few others (like "Crude Awakening" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room") the other day over barbecue & beers, and we came to the conclusion that if we were could dictate one law, it would be that all American voters would be required to watch this masterpiece, along with say three or four others (like the two aforementioned) and participate in a discussion group prior to registering.
I realize that is a ridiculous impossibility, an absurdity, given that no one in power (Democrat or Republican) or those who shill for them would ever allow that sort of thing, but it's still a pretty idea.
This is hard hitting stuff, rife with shocking revelations (shocking, I mean, if you haven't been paying attention the last fifteen to fifty years, like apparently most of our fellow citizens..) And unlike partisan stuff like Micheal Moore's work, it is mostly a series of interviews from people actually involved in government or the intelligence establishment, interspaced with lots of archival video documenting the evolution of the "military-congressional-industrial" complex.
It's mostly straight from the horse's mouth, in other words. You get incredible stuff, starting with clips & interviews with Presidents Truman, Johnson, Reagan, both Bush H.W. & W., Clinton, and of course Eisenhower - whose famous farewell address, which echoes that of George Washington (who warned us of maintaining standing armies and foreign entanglements), and provides the conceptual hook that draws the entire piece together.
Other voices here include Eisenhower's son & granddaughter (John E. Brig Gen. Ret. USA & Susan E.), professor and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, neocon pundit William Kristol, activist Charles Lewis, the historian Gwynne Dyer, Dick Cheney, Senator John McCain, Senator Robert Byrd, former Air Force intelligence officer Karen Kwiatkowski, author Gore Vidal, Bush adviser Ricard Pearle, Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche, retired NYPD officer Wilton Sekzer, the US Airforce officers who flew the Stealth Bombers who dropped the first bombs on Baghdad in 2003, and many others.
No matter what your political orientation, no matter what you think about what is happening in Iraq, this movie is worth your time. It is not mere propaganda, not agitprop. It is a true documentary, even (I say) a work of art. It will enlighten, and give you a lot to ponder.
I've bought it to share with people, I think it's that essential.
I can't recommend it highly enough. Watch it.
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Summary: GREAT
Comment: WORTH GETTING FOR ANY SCHOOL HISTORY CLASS OR EVEN JUST FOR ANY FAN OF HISTORY
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Summary: Why there's no choice about going to war."
Comment: If you want to find out what is wrong about the last 30 years of bland, company-owned presdidents, this is the real deal. Yup, after this many years, raised during the Eisenhower years, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was seen on the tube as just a fuddy-duddy,this shocking documentary will make you stand up and salute Ike and those presidents before him, who never had the opportunity for Madison Avenue to "sell" them to the public. I consider the speech Ike gave days before Kennedy took office to be as shattering to the psyche as the Zapruder Dallas dastardly deal on JFK. After seeing this film, you just may be convinced that some advertising whip wanted a brand change that day in Dallas. It is clearly layed out by the documentarian that since we created the scaffolding to produce such persidential monsters, we ought to be man enough to tear down the scaffolding. I second the motion. A sobering view of war and how it can be sold so easily.
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Summary: Amazing insight
Comment: Without writing a super long rant, which I definitely could in support of this movie, I'll simply say watch it and learn. A lot of the information presented is not new or ground breaking. The director simply places the facts out on display that many Americans choose to overlook. Questioning your government's use of the military is not unpatriotic. Feedback from the educated citizens is an essential part of democracy. Please watch this movie and ask yourself...Why do we fight?? Is it to rid the world of these ever elusive terrorists, or is it to maintain our position as the world superpower and to line the pockets of the special interest groups that sell military armament to the government. It's our future, and our responsibility to notice a grave injustice and stand for the real ideals of America.
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Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival WHY WE FIGHT offers a revealing look at how America has readied itself for battle and what compels us to so frequently wage war around the world. Produced in the midst of the second Iraq War documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's WHY WE FIGHT is an unflinching examination of the forces fueling the American military machine for over half a century and their global consequences. The film opens with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell speech in which he warned Americans of the growing power of the "military industrial complex." Expanding upon Eisenhower's warning Jarecki relies on interviews with American soldiers government officials military insiders defense industry personnel congressman scholars ordinary Iraqis and many others to provide personal political and economic analysis of the last 50 years of U.S. military expansion wars and interventions. What emerges is an eye-opening and often chilling portrait of how political corporate and military interests have become progressively entangled through the business of war.System Requirements:Running Time 99 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: TBD UPC: 043396138940 Manufacturer No: 13894
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