I just returned from seeing it. I needed complete silence for a while afterwards....
I have been opposed to our invasion of Iraq since the beginning and disbelieving of the administration's justification so I didn't share Redhedd's feeling of betrayal. Horror, disgust, shame.
I thought the first part.....the connections between the Bush family and the Bin Landin family a bit too "Oliver Stoneish" for me. Not so much the validity of it as the presentation.
As for the limp, dead, maimed bodies of infants and children....the faces of young women destroyed by napalm (yes...we still use it), the young men of our country blown to pieces...hard to look at, yes but necessary to distinguish war from video games as one soldier put it.
To contrast that with the clip of Bush....in white tails....saying... to a group at a fund raiser "Some would call you the haves. I call you my base."
The fact that only one, ONLY ONE, member of congress has a child in the military.
I recognize it as propaganda, but so is every newcast, every press conference.
I disagree with one thing you said Soleded. I widh this could be seen by every voter.... see the grieving mother standing in front of the White House who is told off by another woman, see the man who had the FBI come to his door because he questioned the invasion of Iraq, listen to the soldiers who don't understand why they are there.
Then vote.
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