Has anyone heard of this film, "Why we Fight" -documentary on war complex?

[fujiyama]

Speaking of a film seems like lounge material, but I figured it's a documentary dealing with the industrial war complex. It looks interesting. Here are some details from imdb:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0436971/

" He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests."

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Plot Outline: Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions."

[McKenzie]

1. new to me fujiyama - here's another good one

I watched "The Fog of War" last night which is broadly similar although different in emphasis. One of the best documentaries I've ever seen - utterly rivetting.

Here is a Flash summary of the content.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/fogofwar/indexFlash.html

I'll try to get hold of a copy of "Why we Fight". It looks like my kind of movie.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Wasn't this guy on "The Daily Show" earlier this week?

I'm pretty sure he was or someone exactly like him. Yes, it's very interesting. Our country spends so much on the "war machine" that we feel duty bound to use it, thus little excursions like the Iraq war. Our nation's military spending is so far over the top that it threatens the very social fabric of our country.

MORE BOMBS, MORE TANKS, MORE JETS.......for what? There isn't another military in the world that can come close to us. Yet we "need" to divert more and more money into the military industrial complex. Why?

That was the point this guy was making on TDS and Stewart saw eye to eye with him on everything. How could you not? Our country is in shambles, there are too many homeless, too many go hungry, too many can't make a decent wage if they ARE working. But we've always got more money for the Pentagon, that monetary black hole that swallows out tax dollars at a frightening pace.

Guns or butter? Guns have won in the U.S. no question about it, and it's time that trend was turned around.

I expect to be on the "no-fly" list now, perhaps I'll even have a visit from Agent Mike. :hi: Agent Mike!