Drago Endorses: Why We Fight
Why We Fight is a documentary about September 11th and the war that followed. Yeah, I know we are all tired of this whole situation and we’ve all heard that “We’ll be greated as liberators” sound bite and scoffed at it dozens of times, but this movie is different from a lot of the rest of the stuff out there.
Why We Why fight goes deep into the origin of Saddam’s power (hint: we gave it to him), it speaks on the integral part that business contractors play in wars and how they got to that point, it analyzes the part that the media and marketing play in convincing a populace that they need to go to war.
The thing that makes this documentary unique is that it doesn’t really seem to take sides as much as other films about this subject. Unlike Michael Moore or whoever, it doesn’t use trick editing or selective interviewing to make its point, it just presents the facts and lets them speak for themselves. It’s like that Jay-Z song Dig a Hole: “I keep my enemies close, I give ‘em enough rope. They put themselves in the air, I just kick away the chair.”
Some of the most powerful parts of this movie are a retired cop whose son died in 9-11 who wants a bomb with his son’s name on it to be dropped on Iraq and how mad he gets when he finds out Iraq didn’t have anything to do with 9-11, an Iraqi man reading a list of his village’s victims’ of the bombings names and occupations and they are all students and housewives, and all the interviews with fighter pilots where they have these big shit-eating grins on their faces while they talk about how cool the bomb targeting technology that they use is.
Why We Fight is out on DVD now, go check it out.
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