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Why We Fight (Complete)

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cybrbeast says...

Yes, the military industrial complex is certainly very evil. The documentary Why We Fight gives a good view on it.
However I'm just glad that something positive can come from the war machine.

General George S. Patton on the War on Terror

bamdrew says...

luckily it was submitted to the Army, Navy And The Air Force, and not liberalsift (http://history.videosift.com/)

I can't speak for the man, but I'd bet the re-animated, actor-portrayed, over-dubbed Gen. Eisenhower would have a very different opinion about the dire necessity of the occupation of Iraq than the re-animated, actor-portrayed, over-dubbed Gen. Patton. (http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-We-Fight-BBC-Storyville-US-War-machine-documentary)

A three minute history of Middle East Oil

A three minute history of Middle East Oil

A three minute history of Middle East Oil

A three minute history of Middle East Oil

Trials Of Henry Kissinger

rickegee says...

Trials of Henry Kissinger was made by Eugene Jarecki who also made the superb WHY WE FIGHT.

Jarecki and Adam Curtis are the best of the new batch of "polemicist" documentarians. Both are much smarter and more observant than Michael Moore or the OUTFOXED/Walmart guy.

Dear Mr. Supercomputer . . . send more troops

choggie says...

Agreed rickegee, the realities of the worlds' most watched and editorialized events, (snuff is not war-dead or dying) should be witnessed, if the means are there-beheadings included.

Daniel Pearl?? remember him?? His widow and surviving family do….
-Again, to keep true to the theme here, the paradigm,- we live in a world driven by money. The power is in the hands of the well-insulated leftovers of who knows, the Roman Empire?? It sure ain’t fuckin’ Genghis Khan!!!

Military Industry, Pharmacueticals, Fossil Fuels, Banking, Insurance, This is why we fight. Masses are bred, fed, and led, by assumptions and desires, which the archetects of this boardgame understand fully, and exploit skillfully and completely.

The cracks in the ediface, showing and growing for years, are ignored and go unexploited, through diversion and misdirection, by giving the worker-bees what they desire…..pollen comes in new and improved colors and textures nowadays, with lots of flashy lights and cozy warm feeeeeeelings.

Hmmmmm.? Isn’t there a Colesium-like structure in every major city in the world???
And if sports aint yer diversion, then eye-candy, blow-jobs, Allah, Jesus, or mini empire- building is. What’s yours?? A holy crusade against drunk driving, or save the freekin snow beavers’ from wobal glorming!!!???

Collective heads in in asses is why the world chugs along the path of chaos….enjoy the wonder years while you can, the change will be abrupt, and all-encompassing.
Hopi you’ll aaalllllllll make it….
You will, we will.



Why We Fight (BBC Storyville: US war machine documentary)

benjee says...

An epic and incredible documentary - possibly the best political/historical one I've seen:

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions

The American Documentary Grand Jury Prize was given to WHY WE FIGHT, written and directed by Eugene Jarecki. http://festival.sundance.org/2005/docs/05Awards.pdf

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

Deploying the general's farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century's military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how--and tells why--a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

Jarecki, whose previous film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, took such an unblinking look at our ex-secretary of state, might have delivered his film in time for the last presidential election, but its timing is also its point: It does not matter who is in charge as long as the system remains immune from the checks and balances of a peace-seeking electorate. Brisk, intelligent, and often very, very human, Why We Fight is one of the more powerful films in this year's Festival, and certainly among the most shattering.— Diane Weyermann

What needs to change in American Policy and Thinking...

Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the American People



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