Why We Fight (2005)

While channel surfing I caught about the last half of this movie. I'm sure it has its biased parts, but everything from Moore to Rove does, so why should they be any different?

If you can, go see it. It'll make you angry, disgusted, sad, and even feeling betrayed. And that's really the point, the 'American Government' is betraying its people. Not just in little, let's build a multi-million dollar bridge to nowhere pork projects, but in the grander scheme. It's betraying us in the “we'll kill or destroy anyone or anything we want, just to achieve whatever convoluted goals we've cooked up.” Honesty? Integrity? Forget that. We'll try to off you just for thinking of exposing us for the scum we are.

Far gone are the days when Americans felt that when their government called on them to fight in its name, that they would rush blindly into battle for the American Good. The movie does a good job of identifying just why American citizens now are justly skeptical of anything coming out of the Military-Industrial-Think Tank soup that puts cronies and puppets into place at even the highest levels of elected government.

And really, why did we expect the Iraqi people to welcome us with open arms and joyous hearts? The Iraqi reality is summed up with these two quotes from the movie:

“There were shrapnel injuries to women and children, civilians ... all of them were civilians. In the first days of the war, we didn't receive any soldiers.”
-- Medical Doctor at a hospital receiving first day wounded.

“During the first 6 months of the Iraq war, 50 precision airstrikes were conducted against Iraqi leadership.

“Of these strikes, none hit its intended target.”
-- Film statistics

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Track down this movie and watch it, it will change your life,

M.J. Taylor
Publisher
from Reason to Freedom

Title: Why We Fight (2005)
Director / Writer: Eugene Jarecki
Rated: PG-13
Cast: John McCain, Susan Eisenhower, Richard Perle, Gore Vidal, Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Gwynne Dyer, Dwight D. Eisenhower (archive footage), John S.D. Eisenhower, Donna Ellington, Chalmers Johnson, William Kristol, Karen Kwiatkowski, Charles Lewis, Dan Rather (CBS News), James G. Roche, Wally Saeger, Wilton Sekzer, Naj Sheesan, William Solomon, Franklin Spinney, Col. Richard Treadway, Michael Valentine