{"id":59,"date":"2006-06-28T22:51:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/59"},"modified":"2006-06-28T22:51:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T02:51:42","slug":"why-we-fight-2005-eugene-jarecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/59","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fight (2005, Eugene Jarecki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a good movie to watch when depressed, obviously.  Patiently explains why the Iraq war and all the other countries we&#8217;ve had military dealings with since WWII are symptoms of the &#8220;unwarranted influence&#8221; of &#8220;the military-industrial complex&#8221; that Dwight Eisenhower warned against in January 1961.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/whywefight1.jpg\" alt=\"Why We Fight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GW Bush and Cheney and Halliburton whatever.  Saddam Hussein whatever.  9\/11 whatever.  A man whose son was killed and wrote to ask his name be written on a bomb dropped in Iraq.  A woman who works at a bomb factory.  Eisenhower&#8217;s descendants talking about Eisenhower.  We&#8217;re all gonna die.  Too bad I watched this, cuz now I can&#8217;t see Al Gore&#8217;s &#8220;An Undeniable Truth&#8221; without fucking killing myself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/whywefight2.jpg\" alt=\"Why We Fight\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a good movie to watch when depressed, obviously. Patiently explains why the Iraq war and all the other countries we&#8217;ve had military dealings with since WWII are symptoms of the &#8220;unwarranted influence&#8221; of &#8220;the military-industrial complex&#8221; that Dwight Eisenhower warned against in January 1961. GW Bush and Cheney and Halliburton whatever. Saddam Hussein whatever. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,714,31],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-documentary","tag-eugene-jarecki","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}