Rush to War
by Robert Taicher
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Actor: George McGovern, Joe Wilson, Molly Ivins, Noam ChomskyDirector: Robert Taicher
Brand: RUSH
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 51289
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Product features:
- In today's post-9/11 world, director Robert Taicher searches for the rationale behind the war in Iraq, exploring the failed policies of several administrations in an expertly crafted full-length documentary. What he presents is a raw, provocative look into America's "War on Terror" and its effect on our society, our credibility, and most importantly, our security. As America fights the wrong war a
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DVD Review: Beyond 5 Stars on Merits
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an extraordinarly well-crafted and presented documentary. It is not focused on the 9-11 truths as much as it is the single best DVD that captures truths as represented in the two DVDs and eight books I list at the end of this review.
It opens with the question "Is it worth it [to invade and occupy Iraq]? and the observation that America has not heard the question yet.
The producer goes on a road trip across America, and finds a split between a small group of Americans that believe the use of force is justified, and "America Right or Wrong;' and a larger group that recognizes what Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson and many others have been saying, which is that we created our own enemies by carrying out a Fifty Year Wound of virtual colonialism, unilateral militarism and anti-democratic covert actions including the toppling of democracies in Iran and Chili, and active support for 42 of the 44 dictators, many in the Middle East.
The documentary is flawed in accepting the fiction that an airplane flew into the Pentagon, it was a missile, but that is not enough to discount the five star quality of the documentary overall.
Father Bergen is usefully quoted as saying that his first thought on hearing of 9-11 was "so, it's come home at last." My own thought at the time was "the cesspool we created has just reached our nose."
They play a 20 December 1983 clip of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Sadaam Husseins hand, and show many clips of how we are flighty--one day we love a dictator, the next day we topple him, but in all of this, we are never on the side of democracy. Howard Zinn, author of A Power Governments Cannot Suppress speaks to this at several points in the documentary.
The film focuses on how the US White House and federal government are isolated from reality, but it does not properly cover the treason and high crimes of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith. See the list below for more insights from others on this point.
We abandoned Afhganistan after the Soviets left (as we abandoned Haiti), and we are to blame for allowing that cancer to explode after first arming the Taliban and the mujahideen.
Oil is the driver, not security and certainly not democracy. Kuwait was about our RIGHT to use 25% of the world's oil, wastefully, at a fraction of its true cost.
The film damns the Clinton Administration for its failure to intervene in Rwanda and Angola, and for its failure to recognize the embassy bombings, the Khobar Towers bombings, and the USS Cole as the early warnings of the long war that we incited ourselves.
Brent Scowcroft, Tony Zinni, Pete Schoomaker, and Eric Shinseki are featured, as is Scott Ritter on the loss of the rule of law, and all make the point that this was an idiotic elective war badly planned and executed.
No weapons of mass destruction were ever found. The first National Security Council meeting of the Bush-Cheney regeime focuses on dividing up the Iraqi oil fileds.
The documentary accepts the fradulent numbers on dead and wounded--the m ilitary lies to us, counting only those that die on the battlefield, not those that die in the medical evacuation or afterward, and it conceals the 75,000 amputees and wounded, and classified the number of suicides, that I believe is now approaching 5,000.
The 2.2 trillion cost of this war would h ave allowed me to eradicate all ten high-level threats to humanity as identified by Brent Scowcroft and the other members of the high level threat panel. As calculated by Medard Gabel for his forthcoming book, Seven Billion Billionaires, the world spends $1 trillion a year on war, we only need $230 billion a year to wage peace and eradicate all ten high level threats. Go figure.
Great presentation of arrogant ignorant lies and quotes from Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.
Algeria, Viet-Name, and Afghanistan should have taught us that you cannot occupy and control a nation by force.
White House abused its 9-11 mandate.
Abu Grahib photos of tortured hooded naked prisoners have replaced the Statue of Liberty as the one compelling image of America.
The DVD ends poignantly with a professor saying that America's health matters to the rest of the world, when America gets crazy the world gets crazy, America is still the hope of the world but we have to help America get back to the rule of law, to America the beautiful, America the moral and peaceful.
AMEN. See also:
Why We Fight
War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy)
The 2007 Bush-Cheney Impeachments
Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Description of Rush to War
PLAMEGATE: Exclusive 45 Minute Interview with Ambassador Joe Wilson, Husband of Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame -Author of the Historic Book, Fair Game.In today's post-9/11 world, director Robert Taicher searches for the rationale behind the war in Iraq, exploring the failed policies of several administrations in an expertly crafted full-length documentary. What he presents is a raw, provocative look into America's "War on Terror" and its effect on our society, our credibility, and most importantly, our security.
As America fights the wrong war at the wrong time, comes a riveting eye-opener. The right film at the right time.
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