Why We Fight Page #5

You see, we had to fight communism

wherever it was in the world.

So a decision was made that the

United States will remain militarized...

... permanently.

We lack the weapons to defend ourselves, build,

prepare as required.

Quickly the government springs an election

and initiate the gigantic rearmament programme,

a programme designed to make

America the arsenal of democracy.

From that moment on the American empire

was in every corner of the earth.

In Burma and Iceland...

We were going to maintain dominance not just of

Europe, not just of Japan,

but of the entire globe.

'Oh gee I wish, that I

could be with you tonight.'

'Gee I wish'

'And gee I know, that

everything will be alright.'

'The crickets are singing a love song.'

What are we fighting for?

Fighting for continued freedom.

That's the only way we're

gonna have it, I think.

Why do we fight? I think that the...

I honestly don't have an answer for it.

It's just... the people who start the war,

who know what they are fighting about.

I think we fight for ideals and what

we believe in. I hope that so what it is.

Today we don't have a broad based American

feeling about why we are fighting in Iraq.

People's confidence in the United

States is not what it was...

was during the World War ll.

Yesterday USA precious celluloids, such as...

'Why we fight' orientation

films, depicting our soldiers...

You know it's interesting 'Why we fight' was...

actually the title of series

of World War ll films.

They were done by one of the great directors.

Master of the of the art of motion

picture entertainment, Frank Cappra.

The Frank Cappra films, even

back then were propaganda.

To kind of build up a war fewer.

Americans fighting.

But given that it was

during a global Word War...

there were a lot of reasons

that Americans embrace.

We are fighting for liberty,

the most expensive luxury known to man.

Today, if you went downtown, to

my local town and you ask five...

people 'Why we are fighting in Iraq?'

you get five different answers.

Why do we fight? I 'm not quite sure,

but I think it's for

powering control, for greed.

I'm not sure if we are fighting for the

oil or not. We could be, we could not be.

Our government has more knowledge than I know.

I think everybody has the

different idea why we are there.

And a lot of people think we shouldn't be.

What we're seeing is a disconnection

of our American foreign...

policy from the citizen, from

average American citizen.

Why do we fight?

I wish we didn't.

Sometimes you have to though.

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time.

Smiling with his two teeth.

Man Jason.

What can I do for my son's memory?

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