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<h1>"Why we Fight" - Screening and Discussion</h1>
<p><img alt="Why We Fight" width="200" height="290" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" src="http://www.politicalmediareview.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/why-we-fight2.jpg"><a href="http://www.masspeaceaction.org">Massachusetts Peace Action</a> and <a href="http://www.brooklinepax.org">Brookline PAX</a> present a film screening followed by brief discussion.</p>
<p><strong>Tuesday, July 19, 6:30 pm</strong></p>
<p><strong>Coolidge Corner Branch Library, 31 Pleasant St., Brookline</strong> - Green Line "C" train</p>
<p><em><strong>Why We Fight</strong></em>, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2005 documentary about the military–industrial complex. The film won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is especially timely today during the titanic budget debates in Washington, which include discussion of the proper security posture of the United States. The discussion will include an evaulation of the Washington discussion on security policy and the military budget.</p>
<p><em><strong>Why We Fight</strong></em> describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military–industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was misled so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.</p>
<p><em><strong>Why We Fight</strong></em> documents the consequences of said foreign policy with the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who then asked the military to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be dropped in Iraq; and that of a twenty-three-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he was poor and in debt, his decision impelled by his mother's death; and a female military explosives scientist who arrived in the U.S. as a refugee child from Vietnam in 1975.</p>
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