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2005 Canadian pic

Why Nosotros Fight
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Directed by	Eugene Jarecki
Written by	Eugene Jarecki
Produced past	Susannah Shipman
Starring	Joseph Cirincione Richard Perle Chalmers Johnson John McCain
Cinematography	Etienne Sauret May Ying Welsh
Edited past	Nancy Kennedy
Music by	Robert Miller
Production companies	ARTE BBC Storyville CBC Charlotte Street Pictures TV2 Danmark
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics (US) Axiom Films (UK & Ireland)
Release dates	January 2005 (2005-01) (Sundance) January 22, 2006 (2006-01-22) (United States)
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	Canada France United Kingdom United States
Language	English language
Box office	$1.4 one thousand thousand

'Why We Fight' is a 2005 documentary moving picture past Eugene Jarecki about the military–industrial circuitous. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda films commissioned past the U.South. Regime to justify their determination to enter the war confronting the Axis Powers.^[1]

Why Nosotros Fight was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2005, exactly forty-4 years later on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address. Although it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, the moving-picture show received a express public cinema release on January 22, 2006. It also won 1 of the 2006 Grimme Awards in the competition "Information & Culture"; the prize is one of Deutschland's most prestigious for television productions^[ii] and a Peabody Award in 2006.^[3]

Synopsis [edit]

Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the U.s. military–industrial circuitous and its 50-yr interest with the wars led past the United States to appointment, especially its 2003 invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World State of war II, the American public was misled so that the regime (incumbent Administration) could have them to state of war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the earth. Interviewed nigh this matter are politician John McCain, political scientist and former CIA annotator Chalmers Johnson, politico Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

Why Nosotros Fight documents the consequences of said strange policy with the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who and so asked the armed forces to write the name of his dead son on any flop to be dropped in Iraq; a 23-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he was poor and in debt, his conclusion impelled by his mother'due south death; and a military explosives scientist (Anh Duong) who arrived in the U.S. equally a refugee child from Vietnam in 1975.

Producer's list [edit]

The producer'southward listing included "more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Dissemination Corporation to the United Kingdom's BBC, Estonia'south ETV and numerous European broadcasters" but no U.South. names.^[4] The Sundance Establish did, however, provide completion funding.^[4] Writer and managing director Jarecki said "serious test of Eisenhower and the aftermath of his speech proved 'also radical' for potential American funders for his moving-picture show" and except for Sundance, he "could not raise a dollar in the U.S."^[iv]

Contributors and representatives [edit]

Politicians [edit]

Senator John McCain: elected to the United states of america Senate in 1986, he is a one-time U.South. Navy airplane pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war.
Richard Perle, Chairman, Pentagon Defense Policy Lath (2001–03): worked the U.S. Government for three decades, and is an builder of the Yard. West. Bush Administration'south strange policy. Equally a writer, he regularly is published in bourgeois news publications.
William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard: a political theorist identified with the neoconservative movement, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century think tank in 1997.

Civilians [edit]

Joseph Cirincione, senior acquaintance and Director of the Not-Proliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC.
Gwynne Dyer: military historian, writer, and journalist who has worked for the Canadian, British, and American militaries. He published books, manufactures, data papers, and a radio serial, about international affairs.
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Eisenhower: senior fellow at the Eisenhower Found's director of programs. She is serving a 3rd appointment to the Commission on International Security and Arms Command (CISAC) of the National Academy of Sciences.
John Eisenhower, son of President Eisenhower, Armed services Historian: A military historian member of White House staff during his father's administration. He is a retired Brigadier General (Us) and served equally U.S. ambassador to Belgium, 1969 and 1971.
Chalmers Johnson, Central Intelligence Agency 1967–73, Political Scientist: With a fifty-year career in strange policy, he is President of the Japan Policy Inquiry Found. An bookish at the University of California, he has written many articles and books.
Charles Lewis, Eye for Public Integrity: Founder, and ex-executive managing director, Center for Public Integrity—non-turn a profit, non-partisan "watch-dog" organisation established in 1989—investigating and reporting their research about U.S. public policies
Wilton Sekzer, retired police sergeant, New York City Police Department, Vietnam veteran: Vietnam veteran, door gunner from the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion, whose son was killed on 9/11. After the attacks, he says the Bush Administration made him believe Saddam Hussein was responsible. He e-mailed every armed forces branch, asking if his son'south name might be written on a bomb to be dropped on Republic of iraq. Later on, he is uncertain if he should regret his actions, after hearing President Bush-league claim he does not know from where people got the thought that in that location was a link between Saddam Hussein and the ix/11 attacks.
William Solomon: 20-three-year-erstwhile soldier. Deployed to Republic of iraq on January x, 2005, for 18 months, as a helicopter mechanic. It appears Solomon made information technology to Sergeant in the 1st Battalion 52nd Aviation Regiment, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, according to a website that reports on different activities of soldiers. There is a photo of Solomon^[v] and a specialist talking to basketball coaches in Kuwait at Army camp Virginia. The coaches are on their way to Iraq to participate in Operation Hardwood v which is a program that brings US basketball coaches to the American troops in the Middle Eastward.
Frank "Chuck" Spinney, retired military Analyst: Lehigh University-schooled mechanical engineer (class of 1967), worked in the USAF, in Ohio, before working in the Pentagon'southward Office of Plan Analysis and Evaluation in 1977. He became a harsh critic of the Pentagon, later known as the "Conscience of the Pentagon", when he attacked the spiraling spending increase in the written report "Defense facts of life", published in 1982, later known equally the "Spinney Report", which earned a cover on "Time" magazine.
Gore Vidal, author of Imperial America : writer, playwright, screen author, novelist, and essayist, he has written books on American foreign policy explaining the American empire.

Military participants [edit]

'Fuji' and 'Tooms': USAF stealth fighter pilots 'Fuji' and 'Tooms' dropped the offset bombs on Baghdad city, starting the Iraq War in 2003.
Colonel Richard Treadway, Commander USAF Stealth Fighter Squadron: Vice-Commander of the 49th Fighter Wing of the U.S. Air Force
Colonel Walter W. Saeger, Jr., director, U.Southward. Air Force Munitions Directorate: Director of the Air-to-Surface Munitions Directorate, Ogden Air Logistics Heart, Loma Air Forcefulness Base in Utah.
Karen Kwiatkowski: a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel of the Pentagon working with the National Security Agency.
James K. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force: Twentieth United States Secretarial assistant of the Air Forcefulness
Nguyet Anh Duong: inventor of the thermobaric bunker buster flop, refugee from South Vietnam

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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Secretarial assistant of Land Colin Powell: From 1984 to 1987, Col. Wilkerson was Executive Assistant to Admiral Stewart A. Ring, USN, Director for Strategy and Policy (J5) USCINCPAC. In the 1990s Col. Wilkerson was Director of the USMC War College, Quantico, Virginia. He has written much about war machine and national security affairs in mainstream and professional journals.^{[half dozen]}

Run into besides [edit]

Military machine Keynesianism
The Basis Truth, a 2006 documentary film about veterans of the Iraq State of war.
We Are Many, a 2014 documentary movie about the February 2003 global day of protest against the Iraq War.
Protests confronting the Iraq War
List of American films of 2006

References [edit]

^ Why We Fight at IMDb
^ "Grimme-Preis%twenty&". DE: Grimme Institut. 2006. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved March nine, 2013.
^ 66th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jensen, Elizabeth (June 4, 2007), "Why We Fight", Telly Week, vol. 26, no. 23 .
^ "Functioning Hardwood V Begins in Kuwait" (images). Dvids hub. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
^ Wilkerson, Lawrence (February iii, 2006). "Interview transcript of the PBS programme NOW about pre-war intelligence". Public Affairs Television. Archived from the original on March 12, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2007.

External links [edit]

Why We Fight official site at Sony Pictures Classics.
Interview with director Eugene Jarecki at Now Playing mag.
Why We Fight at IMDb
Why We Fight at AllMovie

Awards
Preceded by DiG!	Sundance Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary 2005	Succeeded by God Grew Tired of Usa
Preceded past	Peabody Award 2006	Succeeded by