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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: Thought provoking
Comment: It's not about left or right, because as the movie points out at the outset, both the left and right agree. They like the military-industrial complex. Watch this movie, and marvel at how prescient Eisenhower was in 1961. This movie is high quality, riveting, entertaining, and thought provoking. I will save you the trouble of wondering whether or not to buy it for fear of partisan bias: just buy it and just watch it. This is coming from a guy who voted for Bush in 2004, whose views have shifted, but certainly not in the traditional "left-right" schism. Our aggressive foreign policy and military-industrial complex needs to be seen for what it is. This was not a partisan hack-job that certain other documentary film directors are known for. He allows differing views to be heard, in context, and doesn't shove anything down your throat. If you sincerely desire freedom, as I do, you must have a critical eye toward your own government and the military-industrial complex.
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Summary: Caution
Comment: Thankfully, I borrowed this from a friend. Do not waste your money on this unless, perhaps, you have an affinity for Michael Moore-type garbage. I will not waste my time with an in-depth review. Caveat Emptor.
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Summary: Worth reading
Comment: I have been trying to read books that might give some insight into what the candidates are like in the upcoming election. I am convinced both are flawed but McCain is our only choice. The other lacks knowledge and experience and is totally unknown. He made one good speech but has trouble answering questions he should have thought through before entering the contest. Ruby Freeman
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Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I had high hopes for this documentary, because it's thesis is exactly right: as President Eisenhower feared, the United States has been hijacked by a military-industrial complex that has squandered its immense wealth on weapons systems, to the detriment of a good society.
Unfortunately, the film is a disappointing mish-mash of contemporary interviews and historical footage, incoherently told. Lacking a narrarator, who might have lended context and details, the film instead lurches from interview to interview -- a conservative here, a liberal there, and, look, here's Eisenhower's actual granddaughter! -- striving for "balance" but sacrificing intelligence.
I yearned for detail: some documentary evidence of the alliance between government and industry, or a probing look at just one of the multitude of unnecessary weapons systems that the Pentagon has foisted on Congress, or even simply a chart that illustrates how our military spending drawfs our spending on the common good, such as education. Details on the Halliburton scandal, for example, would have been especially compelling and illustrative. These topics are only superficially discussed by those interviewed. There is no real insight. Perhaps fearing that they would bore with too much detail, the filmmakers aim only for effect.
To be sure, the film does have some interesting emotional turns -- primarily a profile of 9/11 victim's father who was duped by President Bush's deceptive attempt to tie Iraq to 9/11. Though revelatory in an emotional way, the profile belongs in a different documentary and illustrates the film's essential weakness: a preference for mood over intelligence, in a film that absolutely requires the latter.
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Summary: Every School Kid Should See this Movie and Discuss it
Comment: This movie answers the question, "Why don't the Democrats ask tough questions of the Bush Administration". The answer is one word.. Jobs. The Industrial Military Machine in the United States is a tax subsidized $750,000,000,000 enterprise, let me repeat, 750 Billion dollar a year enterprise. And they have an average 25% profit margin, WOW. The War Machine has designed it's manufacturing chain that components are built in every state. Each elected official in Congress has a duty to bring back jobs to their districts. Otherwise they will not get re-elected.
The next question, How can we move monies from the Industrial War Machine into Education, and research and development of Clean Alternative Energy Sources to make our country self-reliant and secure.
-Tom
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Editorial Reviews:
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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:Â DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:Â TBD UPC:Â 043396138940 Manufacturer No:Â 13894
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