Why We Fight
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From Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex to the Iraq War, a documentary asks why America keeps fighting — and who profits.
Why watch: No American funder would touch it. Won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Cast
Chalmers Johnson as Self - CIA, 1967-1973
Joseph Cirincione as Self - Carnegie Endowment for Peace
Gore Vidal as Self - Author, "Imperial America"
Charles Lewis as Self - Center for Public Integrity
Richard Perle as Self - Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Defense
William Kristol as Self - Project for the New American Century
John McCain as Self - Senator (R/AZ)
Ken Adelman as Self
John Ashcroft as Self (archive footage)
Osama bin Laden as Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
Robert Byrd as Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cheney as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Eugene Jarecki — Director
Eugene Jarecki — Writer
Hans Robert Eisenhauer — Executive Producer
Roy Ackerman — Executive Producer
Alessandra Meyer — Producer
Nick Fraser — Executive Producer
Prudence Arndt — Producer
Mette Hoffman Meyer — Executive Producer
Susannah Shipman — Producer
Eugene Jarecki — Producer
Étienne Sauret — Director of Photography
May Ying Welsh — Director of Photography
Brett Wiley — Director of Photography
Nancy Kennedy — Editor
Robert Miller — Original Music Composer
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