Directed by
Eugene Jarecki, a 2005 documentary film about the
military-industrial complex.
The title refers
to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda movies
commissioned by the U.S. Government to justify their
decision to enter the war against the Axis Powers.
'Why We Fight'
was first screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival on 17
January 2005, exactly forty-four years after President
Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell
address.
Although it won
the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, it received a limited
public cinema release on 22 January 2006, and then was
released on DVD on 27 June 2006, by Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment.
The documentary
also won one of the 2006 Grimme Awards in the competition
"Information & Culture"; the prize is one of Germany's most
prestigious for television productions.
'Why We Fight'
describes the rise and maintenance of the United States
military-industrial complex and its 50-year involvement with
the wars led by the United States to date, especially its
2003 Invasion of Iraq.
The documentary
asserts that in every decade since World War II, the
American public was misled so that the government (incumbent
Administration) could take them to war and fuel the
military-industrial economy maintaining American political
dominance in the world.
Interviewed about
this matter, are,
-
politician John McCain
-
political
scientist and former Central Intelligence Agency -
CIA - analyst Chalmers Johnson
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politician Richard Perle
-
neoconservative commentator William Kristol
-
writer
Gore Vidal
-
public
policy expert Joseph Cirincione
'Why We Fight'
documents the consequences of said foreign policy with the
stories of,
-
a Vietnam
War veteran whose son was killed in the September
11, 2001, attacks, and who then asked the military
to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be
dropped in Iraq
-
that of a
23-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United
States Army because he was poor and in debt, his
decision impelled by his mother's death
-
a
military explosives scientist - Anh Duong - who
arrived in the U.S. as a refugee child from Vietnam
in 1975.
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