why we fight movie reflection

I really liked this movie, it really opened it eyes to what was happening. I made me realize I need to question things and not just accept things, not just pertaining to government issues but everything. There were many quotes that convinced me not to just accept things. The first one was talking about how we bombed Japan, everyone thought it was necessary and if we didn't a million Americans would have died, it turns out that the Japanese had been trying to surrender but Eisenhower didn't let them because he wanted to show off and scare Stalin. I find this so shocking and horrible that everyone was convinced bombing the Japanese was necessary but it wasn't it was just used to show we had a lot of power and to scare people into being our allies or not messing with us. Another quote that showed me just agreeing and not questioning things is a big deal was "We fight because too many people aren’t standing up and saying I don’t’ agree with this I don’t want to do this." I totally agree with that quote people just think oh we're fighting for freedom the government wants us to do this of course there can't be anything wrong with it. Being naive and not questioning isn't the way to go, you need to challenge peoples ideas and have your own ideas and thoughts about things. Also another quote that caught my attention was when they were talking about the Iraq War. The man said "The first day of the war we didn't receive any soliders we just received civilians." Another man said "The yard of the hospital was filled with corpses, and 90% of the people killed were civilians." This quote amazes me, what are we doing in Iraq that is causes us to kill so many random innocent people. Why should they have to pay when they didn't do anything? Another quote I really like was "They want to spread democracy on the points of their bayonets."I really liked this quote because it's sarcastic and sad but it's true. We are trying to spread democracy and "help people but we're doing it by force they don't have any say in what we're doing. Lastly after I heard Eisenhowers speech warning us about how allowing the "military-industrial complex" to accumulate too much power wouldn't be good; I realized that he warned us and we had an opportunity to fix that or change the path we were heading to and we didn't and now we are in a bad state.


Notes:

What we’re fighting for – freedom

Why do we fight – for ideals, idk, oil, greed, power: we don’t have a broad based

reason [idea] why we’re fighting in Iraq

We help other places, “we defeat the enemies of freedom”

The gov. didn’t want the q asked why did they hate us

Moment – entire world behind America

Now billions spend, kids dying

Animosity is stronger towards America more than before

We use freedom as an excuse

Would have changed without the trade center, the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the trade center

Presumption – preemption : which

March 19^th 2003 - ordered a missile to hit southern Baghdad

“We are going to dominate the world with military use.”

“We are on the side of decency, demo., and decency.”

We were the only alive nation after WWII, Japanese gone, Europe “bleeding to death”

They had been convinced if Japan didn’t get bombed 1 million of people would get killed

Japanese tried to surrender Eisenhower didn’t because he wanted to show off and scare Stalin

We had to fight comm. We stayed mili. Forever we are the arsenal of demo. We were in every corner of the earth and remain dominant

New bomb – like new candy in the candy store

They want to spread democracy – on the points of their bay-o-nets

We need to take over even more than the height of the cold war

We spend the most on defense than anything else using the federal budget

Worried goals are set on things that benefits corporations

Product comp. “if there was only one car you wouldn’t want another cuz there’d be no other options

Halliburtion – research more

1.2 billion spent on advertising the army

They’re not like human beings they’re like objects [people you’re killing]

The people in the military have always been lied too, the public and the media have been manipulated

Militaristic

We brought them up teaching them how to abuse rights

Economic colonist

We go in an have free market, free trade

We want our companies to get rich in your country

What we have in a mini-thing of totailitarism

If you join mili now you’re helping policy makers win

The first day of the war we didn’t receive any soldiers we just received civilians

The yard of the of the hospital was filled with corpses

90% of cilivizians killed in the war

The gov. exploited my patriotism

The reason

Never the liberation of Iraqis

We didn’t have an exit strategy building 14 permanent structures

We rub in their faces “you will work with us cuz you sure as hell don’t want to work against us.”

It won’t go back because we are not the same people we were before

Standing gov. will destroy our structure and our government

2002 – give this power this a single man [right the war, when declare], 6 months later he did

New ethic – lets roll.

Capitalism is winning

1961 – Eisenhower warning

Mili = be a team leader

War of Iraq she removed herself because she didn’t agree

We fight because too many people aren’t standing up and saying I don’t’ agree with this I don’t want to do this