Why We Fight -- documentary debuts

Just came from the documentary, coming out this week, "Why We Fight". Very factual and not a Michael Moore-type show. It will make you sick,(at least it should) after you see it. Not because of dead bodies of innocent adults and children in Iraq, and that is bad enough, but to think of how we condone it. This is not an anti-republican or anti-war movie but it will explain, in great detail of what has gone on in our country for a long time and what is going on today. Very disturbing. I'm surprised the government hasn't suppressed it(maybe they will) from going to all theaters around America! Just a few factual thinmgs: First as good of a President Harry Truman was supposed to be, he wanted the A-bombs dropped on Japan before they had a chance to surrender. The United states had to show the rest of the world how powerful we were and don't mess with us. To do that we killed hundreds of thousands innocent Japanese men, women and children. General Eisenhower did not want that, and tried to prevent it to no avail. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was president he warned of a military build-up. On his final speech before he left office he was very concerned if we ever get a president who hasn't fought in a war!! We all know George W.Bush didn't. When you see how our congressmen and senators, Democrat and Republicans, all defend their own states because of the big military contracts awarded to each and how they manipulate things to get those contracts you will know what I mean. The motion picture points out how we are not allowed to see on television, flag-draped coffins, dead American soldiers, and very seldom actual fighting, you will realize why. The Vietnam War might still be going on today, had TV not showed military actions, wounded soldiers and innocent civilian deaths of families. I very seldom get any response from any of you about this kind of stuff. I understand we all have families to support, house and car payments and so on to take time to worry about wars. Or maybe you have all given up? I worked in radio during the time of the Vietnam war and remember the protesters that stood up against it. They should not have blamed the soldiers, mostly poor kids from small towns, though. They were told the war was right!! I too, maybe like you now, had a wife and two small children to support and never participated in any. I did have the air waves, however, to get my point across, often. We on-air DJs could actually play anti-war songs and make comments without getting in trouble. In a free country you are supposed to be able to do that! With all the conservative conglomerates owning most of the radio stations today, you will never hear Donovan's 'Universal Soldier', Barry McGuire's 'Eve of Destruction', Edwin Stars' 'War(what's it good for)', 'Blowin in the Wind', 'Where Have all the Flowers Gone?', 'Four Dead in Ohio' and many more. Satellite radio will put them all out of business in a few years anyway. The only pro-war song I remember playing was the late Staff Sergeamt Barry Sadler's 'Ballad of the Green Berets'. My brother Gene was in the Green Berets in Vietnam. He was shot several times in the back by the Viet Cong and left for dead. He ended up with a permanent disability and roams the country. I haven't seen him in years and hope he is OK. I don't want to carry this out too long so just see the movie if it comes to a theater near you. I'm no movie critic but this should be a must see. The American Empire goes on forever. Take care. Joe