Don Roberdeau Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Good Day.... From The Sundance Film Festival site, about a new film, "Why We Fight" detailing EISENHOWER's JAN61 warnings about the "military industrial complex".... http://festival.sundance.org/2005/filmguid....aspx?film=5745 <QUOTE> WHY WE FIGHT http://www.whywefightmovie.com U.S.A., 2004, 98 Minutes, color & b/w Director: Eugene Jarecki Screenwriter: Eugene Jarecki 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. Deploying the general's farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century's military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how--and tells why--a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. Jarecki, whose previous film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, took such an unblinking look at our ex-secretary of state, might have delivered his film in time for the last presidential election, but its timing is also its point: It does not matter who is in charge as long as the system remains immune from the checks and balances of a peace-seeking electorate. Brisk, intelligent, and often very, very human, Why We Fight is one of the more powerful films in this year's Festival, and certainly among the most shattering.— Diane Weyermann Executive Producers : Roy Ackerman, Nick Fraser, Hans Robert Eisenhauer Producers : Susannah Shipman, Eugene Jarecki Cinematographers : Etienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh Editor : Nancy Kennedy Composer : Robert Miller <END QUOTE> Don Roberdeau USS John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John," Plank Walker Sooner, or later, the Truth emerges Clearly http://members.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/DP.jpg http://members.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/ROSE...NOUNCEMENT.html http://members.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/BOND...PINGarnold.html http://members.aol.com/DRoberdeau/JFK/GHOS...update2001.html T ogether E veryone A chieves M ore "It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government?" - the C.I.A.'s JAMES J. ANGLETON in executive session testimony to the "Church Committee," as repeated to ANGLETON by Senator SCHWEIKER; Church Committee, Hearings, Vol. II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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