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From Democracy Now! exerpts of the documentary War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Are Spinning Us to Death.
9651says...

Why Do we the people let this happen o my god im so angry after watching this..we all need to wake up 90% of deaths in iraq are the innocent for god sake...................

bcglorfsays...

I've presented my opinion before and I'll paraphrase again here.

You would be better served spending the 90 minutes this film runs watching old episodes of the Daily Show that you missed.

This is NOT a documentary in the journalistic sense of actually interviewing or even filming any new footage. It is at best a 'research' piece clipping together piles of carefully selected existing news and media clips and stringing them together with commentary. Unless you aren't familiar with what has been presented by the mainstream media over the years, there is NOTHING new to even be seen here. This is a video editorial, and is really nothing more. It's the same style of mashup and commentary that you can find from O'Reilly or Obermann, only this time with Sean Penn providing his take on things.

I must repeat, you are much better served watching a couple random episodes of the Daily Show. I guarantee you'll get to see an interview with at least one guest that shares something more interesting and novel than anything you'll find in "War Made Easy".

A more personal beef is the film starting off declaring how media has not reflected the complexity of the conflicts it covers. The movie then does nothing to try and reveal any of that complexity for any of the conflicts either. Worse, the film then carries on to commit the same sin itself. It pretends that the techniques used by government to build support for a war it deems necessary is proof the government simply wants war for war sake.

Unless you currently trust every word coming out of a government official's mouth is true, you have nothing to learn from this video. And I dare say if that describes you then unless you've been living in a cave your entire life this isn't going to change your mind either.

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