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Rush to War |  | Director: Robert Taicher
Actors: Joe Wilson, George McGovern, Molly Ivins, Noam Chomsky
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  11 reviews
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Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
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Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PLTD51289D
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ASIN: B000S1KUNS
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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Genre: Documentary
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Release Date: 4-SEP-2007
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 The Facts Every American Should Know... September 21, 2005
Laura J. McCarthy (Eagle, Idaho, USA)
40 out of 43 found this review helpful
As the mother of a soldier currently in Iraq, I watched this documentary with great interest. Without sarcasm or sentimentality, Robert Taicher has pieced together the facts behind how 9/11 came to be and how our nation has been duped into responding in ways that will do us more harm than good, both now and in the long run. Interviews are with well-known people as well as with a cross section of the American public, all giving voice to the cause and effect of America's continuing history of misguided, immoral, and illegal activities in its never-ending quest for power and dominance throughout the world. This film is a must-see for everyone in America. It is an eye-opener for the uninformed, the misinformed, the narrow-minded, and the self-centered American public because it makes clear that America might well be its own worst enemy.
All-star cast! Very informative. April 3, 2005
Joseph Hamad (PA, USA)
36 out of 39 found this review helpful
This dvd has an all-star cast including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, George McGovern, and Scott Ritter. It is a perfect place to start for anyone who wants to know the TRUTH about the current administration's absolute ignorance of the international community as well as its highly hypocritical foreign relation policies.
For all Americans to watch! October 21, 2007
Greg (Madison, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a lover of all types of documentary films, I purchased this new DVD because I'm interested in politics and the war in Iraq and what is going on with our country.
What a surprising film this turned out to be! It is a terrific American independent film that tells the entire story of how we got involved in the war in Iraq and what President George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and others in the current administration are doing in their positions of power.
The film tells the entire story from start to finish and really tells all the hidden secrets that the government doesn't want us to know. I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to know the true story of why we went to war in Iraq and all the fascinating details behind the war.
Beyond 5 Stars on Merits December 30, 2007
Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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
Rush to War June 3, 2008
G. White (Moulton Alabama)
Excellent documentary, thanks for exposing the truth on the Bush administration. May God forgive the United States for what were doing, Hitler/Bush its hard to tell the difference in then & now.
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