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	Why We Fight (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Why We Fight is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
		The documentary is named after the World War II-era propaganda newsreels titled "Why We Fight," which had been commissioned by the United States.
		The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the United States of the last fifty years and in particular on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Why_We_Fight_(2005_film) (1133 words)

	Why We Fight- by Justin Raimondo
		Why We Fight utilizes an impressive array of analysts — I would say "talking heads," but the phrase doesn't do them justice — in order to make its case that a misguided war in Iraq was made possible by a systemic disorder of American democracy.
		Why We Fight is not a film in the Michael Moore mode of in-your-face propaganda, but is all the more effective in that it lets all these voices speak for themselves.
		A key sub-theme of Why We Fight is the business of militarism, and this is dramatized in a series of interviews, shots of military trade shows, and a visit to Raytheon.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=8484 (2679 words)

	Why We Fight
		Why We Fight is filmed in a new kind of America.
		Why We Fight grapples with this sense of moral and economic bankruptcy that many feel as we stay the course and fight wars in Iraq, and elsewhere.
		But what I really find inspiring about Why We Fight is that we see the words, thoughts and deeds of the average American in this movie – the factory workers, the fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, the backbone of this nation.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article11874.htm (1235 words)

	Why We Fight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Why We Fight" is also the name of an episode of Band of Brothers and the title of an album by Gatsbys American Dream.
		Why We Fight is the name of a propaganda series of seven documentary films s commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war.
		Created by the U.S. Army Pictorial Services, the films are in the public domain; many of them are available for download at the Internet Archive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Why_We_Fight (614 words)

	The Stupid Shall Be Punished: Why We Fight
		We still don’t understand the motivation that drives our most implacable enemies and their supporters (Note: I do not mean we should alter our behavior to change their motivations, just that we need to understand them to be able to counter [and kill] them more effectively).
		why we hit the governments that aid and support the terrorists is what is important.
		and why saudi arabia had best be getting the hint, because they are way up there on the list of abettors, in my opinion.
	bubbleheads.blogspot.com /2005/01/why-we-fight.html (2597 words)

	Why We Fight (2006): Reviews
		Why We Fight attempts, somewhat sketchily, to connect the dots between Ike's Cassandra-like warnings and current events.
		Whether we've reached the critical mass of "misplaced power" is the gist of the current national debate, and Why We Fight is a useful tool in that argument.
		This could have been a great documentary if it stuck more to "why we fight" rather than the more narrow theme of "why are we fighting in Iraq." The people in the theatre where I saw it applauded at various anti-current government statements.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/whywefight (1806 words)

	Why We Fight Movie Review - Why We Fight Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight" borrows its title from the classic World War II series of propaganda films made by Frank Capra, but the implicit meaning of the words couldn't be more different.
		"Why We Fight" overreaches in places and could be more focused as a whole, and it has an ax to grind.
		"Why We Fight" was first seen a full year ago at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival (it won the documentary Grand Jury Prize), and it has taken much too long for the movie to show up in theaters.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7672 (750 words)

	Why We Fight By Eugene Jarecki & Amy Goodman
		Why We Fight By Eugene Jarecki and Amy Goodman
		"Why We Fight" looks at conflicts from World War II right up to the current war in Iraq to examine the political, economic and ideological reasons that drive American war policy.
		And the fact is, when Frank Capra made the "Why We Fight" films, he took that concern for democracy global, and he told Americans that they had to stand up to fight to protect democracy.
	www.countercurrents.org /arts-jarecki110206.htm (2529 words)

	indieWIRE: The Dead Zone: Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight"
		In "Why We Fight" Jarecki knows well enough to lay off authorial insertion, but that's only a conspicuous counter-Moore decision diverting attention away from the film's ordinary, insidious Moorean manipulations, now so absorbed into mainstream documentary as to go nearly unnoticed.
		Why documentary filmmakers resort to such tactics I'll never understand--they betray the audience, who the director cynically treats as either too stupid for politics or too susceptible to calculation.
		"Why We Fight" also follows "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" in its regrettable misuse of music--you don't have to be a humorless Godardian to recognize the film's inoculating sound/image effects.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2006/01/the_dead_zone_e.html (1438 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Why We Fight (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A scene from the documentary "Why We Fight," which argues that the United States is permanently on the edge of war because it ignored Eisenhower's warnings of a "vast military-industrial complex."
		I agree with the politics of "Why We Fight" and I concede it is a skillful assembly of its materials, but as a documentary it's less than compelling.
		Much of the rest of "Why We Fight" says things that can be said as well or better in print, and have been.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060216/REVIEWS/602160303/1023 (828 words)

	pullquote: FFDFF: Why We Fight
		Reaching all the way back to the admonitions in Dwight D Eisenhower's prescient farewell address, Why We Fight examines how and why the United States has moved to a state of near-permanent war and who stands to benefit; namely, the military-industrial complex.
		Why We Fight makes the case that the United States as the lone world superpower engages in systematic economic colonialism, spurred by manufactured leaps into conflicts that support its predeveloped foreign policy initiatives.
		Why We Fight sticks mostly to the big dogs, those who wield power in all branches of government and business, to examine U.S. foreign policy, but some of the film's most powerful moments come from the NYPD officer who lost his son in the World Trade Center.
	pullquote.typepad.com /pullquote/2005/04/ffdff_iwhy_we_f.html (958 words)

	Why We Fight by Vito Russo
		Two and a half years ago, I picked up Life Magazine, and I read an editorial which said, "it's time to pay attention, because this disease is now beginning to strike the rest of us." It was as if I wasn't the one holding the magazine in my hand.
		Can somebody tell me why the only television movie ever produced by a major network in this country, about the impact of this disease, is not about the impact of this disease on the man who has AIDS, but of the impact of AIDS on his white, straight, nuclear family?
		Why, for eight years, every newspaper and magazine in this country has done cover stories on AIDS only when the threat of heterosexual transmission is raised?
	www.actupny.org /documents/whfight.html (1706 words)

	Why We Fight- by Justin Raimondo
		If the king decided he wanted to own that pristine swatch of forest and make of it a hunting preserve for his own exclusive use, then no sooner was it thought of but it was done – with no right of appeal to a higher court or the rule of law.
		The patriots of 1776 ended all that: in fighting and winning their war for national independence, they also overthrew the absolutist idea that the individual must be subordinated to the State.
		As Michael Scheuer points out in Imperial Hubris: Why the West in Losing the War on Terror, his goal is to reclaim lands lost to Muslim rule.
	antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=4003 (2733 words)

	Movienet
		After a recent screening of my new film Why We Fight, I was asked why I chose to go into film.
		Why We Fight looks at what President Eisenhower called “the military-industrial complex”—an unholy alliance between the defense sector, the military, and those in government that Eisenhower feared could threaten the structure of our society.
		I hope you like Why We Fight, and most of all, if you find something in it that makes you want to holler, go ahead and holler.
	www.movienet.com /whywefight.html (994 words)

	Sirotablog: Why We Fight
		The Washington Post today sums up exactly why progressives must continue fighting, and continue putting pressure on BOTH Republicans AND Democrats who capitulate to Corporate America's every wish, no matter what the social cost.
		That's why it is so important for progressives to not only go after the GOP when they ignore average Americans, but also hold those who undercut the Democratic Party accountable.
		Read this article about PLAN and how progressives are going to start taking the fight to the states.
	www.davidsirota.com /2005/03/why-we-fight.html (698 words)

	why we fight
		Americans clung to the isolationism that was their nation's unique legacy because America was, well, isolated.
		And there are triangluations of the positions: "high-minded realists," for instance, who stand apart from the self-appointed champions of global democracy but who recognize that a stated preference for liberty and justice can be a useful foreign policy tool in the fight against global terror.
		And there is the primeval American isolationism, still clinging to 19th century fantasies, as an undertone in the world of the Cindy Sheehans and Michael Moores.
	etymonline.com /columns/whywefight.htm (2100 words)

	Review: Why We Fight - Cinematical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Why We Fight premiered exactly a year ago at the Sundance Film festival, walked off with the festival's Documentary Grand Prize (over audience favorites The Aristocrats and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), and was soon after snatched up by Sony's indie arm for domestic distribution.
		The original Why We Fight is particularly noteworthy for the way it inextricably ties patriotism to a child-like acceptance of the party line.
		In other words, the question "Why we fight" can't be satisfied with a single stream of discourse; like everything else in our hyper-accelerated culture, the threads of argument are necessarily fragmented.
	www.cinematical.com /2006/01/19/reviewwhy-we-fight (1552 words)

	Amazon.com: Why We Fight: Movie Showtimes: Eugene Jarecki,Franklin Spinney,Wilton Sekzer,Richard Perle,Gore Vidal,Karen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Still, Why We Fight, which includes a director's audio commentary track and a few other bonus features, serves as a grim reminder that the world's most powerful nation has strayed far from the principles of our founding fathers, a development that does not bode well for America's future.
		Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism by William J. Bennett
		This documentary is based on the Frank Capra films with the same title, "Why We Fight," which was used as propoganda in WWII to entice young American men to join the armed forces.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JOVX?v=glance (3335 words)

	Why We Fight by Ron Paul
		The reasons now given for why we must continue this war bear no resemblance to the reasons given to gain the support of the American people and the United States Congress prior to our invasion in March of 2003.
		Of course the routine canard for our need to fight, finance, and meddle around the world ever since the Korean War was repeated incessantly: UN Resolutions had to be enforced lest the United Nations be discredited.
		Since no logical answers can be given for why we fight, it might be better to talk about why we should not fight.
	www.lewrockwell.com /paul/paul274.html (6008 words)

	William Bennett on Abu Ghraib, 9/11 and the War on Terror on National Review Online
		Why — as Christopher Hitchens has said — do you have to go to Iraq yourself to see what is actually being done by our soldiers, what is being done to help, repair, fix, make better, that one-time cradle of civilization that Hussein turned into a deathbed and hellhole?
		Why we fight is, indeed, as important as how we fight.
		Why, for example, are we never reminded — and how many of you are learning for the first time here — that the head of the U.S. Central Command, the person who now holds the position previously held by Norman Schwartzkopf and Tommy Franks, is an Arab American?
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/bennett200405190901.asp (2921 words)

	STLtoday - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Why We Fight" is an unflinching look at the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
		Ask the average parade-goer why America maintains such a large military, and you're liable to hear the word "freedom" - whether it's defending our own or securing someone else's.
		Eisenhower, the Republican war hero, warned against the growing and undue influence of the "military-industrial complex." That speech sets a nonpartisan tone for "Why We Fight," which marshals exhaustive evidence to suggest that the war machine has taken on a life of its own, independent of the popular will or the legitimate functions of defense.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/MovieTimes.nsf/0/1348C014EEA233F0862571320070CD6B?opendocument (528 words)

	Why We Fight \| TPMCafe
		I myself have explained that I am running for Congress as a Democrat because I believe that the future of America is worth fighting for.
		I believe this is why so many of my fellow veterans are now running for office – and doing so as critics of the Bush administration’s disastrous war in Iraq.
		When I say we fight for the common good, for the good of the nation, I mean: we fight for each other.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/28/153020/08 (681 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Why We Fight' protests gently (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight (as in policing the world) is a low-key polemic with a famous title.
		This is a dragon that has to be fed, and the movie's sometimes overreaching point — that America has to drum up wars on which the beast can gorge — comes at a time in history when its message will find a receptive audience.
		Fight's most stirring moments deal with a retired New York policeman (and Vietnam vet) who initially supported the Iraqi invasion because he thought it was helping avenge the death of a son in the 9/11 attacks.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2006-01-19-why-we-fight_x.htm (407 words)

	Why We Fight Movie news, stills, photos,trailers, reviews, interviews and information on MC Movies
		Combining up-to-the-minute testimony from a range of insiders and luminaries with impeccable historical research, director Eugene Jarecki’s WHY WE FIGHT examines the extent to which the military-industrial complex not only profits from war, but also becomes a force that makes war happen.
		Amid the onslaught of the Iraq war and interwoven with fifty years of U.S. foreign policy, WHY WE FIGHT follows the personal stories of a group of characters in America’s military family.
		WHY WE FIGHT is a Charlotte Street Film in association with the BBC and Arte.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /archive/moviearchive.php/Why_We_Fight/2403 (586 words)

	CBC: Documentaries: Why We Fight
		Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's legendary farewell speech, filmmaker Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century's military adventures, asking how, and revealing why he believes that the nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.
		WHY WE FIGHT launches a compelling inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
		WHY WE FIGHT is directed by Eugene Jarecki, and produced by Jarecki and Susannah Shipman.
	www.cbc.ca /documentaries/whywefight.html (426 words)

	Why We Fight
		Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq invasion and occupation, in Why We Fight.
		A new film called Why We Fight also is pure propaganda and also is informed by real concerns.
		The fact is, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show uncovers this same hypocrisy every night, and does it in two minutes with irony and humor, while Why We Fight attempts it with outrage and scolding.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0331whywefight0331.html (434 words)

	The Blog \| Karen Kwiatkowski: Why We Fight \| The Huffington Post
		But what I really find inspiring about Why We Fight is that we see the words, thoughts and deeds of the average American in this movie - the factory worker, the fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, the backbone of this nation.
		In an unprepared speech in the USA to promote his consolation prize, the League of Nations, he admitted that Britain had started the 1914 war because it was unable to compete economically with the Germany unified in 1871 by Bismarck.
		I watched your 'Why We Fight' documentary in Pasadena earlier tonight and very much appreciated how you addressed the Office of Special Plans (OSP) with Karen Kwiatkowski (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html...
	www.huffingtonpost.com /karen-kwiatkowski/why-we-fight_b_15457.html (5000 words)

	Review: Why We Fight
		The latter assessment is the central premise of Why We Fight, the powerful new documentary by the director of The Trials of Henry Kissinger.
		While Trials of Henry Kissinger methodically built the case of war crimes against Kissinger, Why We Fight is a broad polemic that never seems to connect all the dots.
		“why we fight” has different answers for the different “we’s” in the world….
	anthony.gnn.tv /blogs/12336/Review_Why_We_Fight (1357 words)

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