Authored by: Belfast on Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 07:03 AM EDT

Saw this interview with clips from the film as well (on BookTV) & second
the suggestion to find out more about it. There was material (scenes of
catheters, and the like) that made me turn away (due to squeamishness)-
yet I understand importance of knowing "these consequences are what this
person (and his family) has to live with/through, every single day".
Multiply that by the thousands who have returned with injuries, who have
no choice but to deal with this reality-meanwhile, politicians (most of
them) & the populace (whatever proportion) don't take this suffering into
account when considering the costs of war.

Reminds me of last night's PBS News Hour segment on the untallied (and
underfunded) human costs (not just the official allocations for military
supplies). Don't mean to put words into anyone's mouth by stating that it
seems the military (or gov't. in general) would prefer deaths to injuries-
the deceased don't complain about not getting health care (physical rehab,
therapy for TBI, counseling for PTSD, etc.).

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"You cannot administer a wicked law impartially-it destroys everyone it touches, its violators as well as its upholders."

Authored by: Floyd on Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 09:28 AM EDT

Thanks for this. We are deluding ourselves if we think we can ignore the ongoing hemorrhage of money leaving our country to continue the misguided occupation of Iraq for many more years to come.

This recession, some say depression, is the direct result of the terrible backward priorities of the chickenhawks who have controlled the executive and legislative branches for the past 8 years. The human cost is still being realized and is rarely talked about because it is another one of those awkward and inconvenient truths that have largely been suppressed by a compliant media who cheered us on to war in the name of profit.

Unless we really put our feet down and put a stop to it we are only going to get another, perhaps smoother version of friendly fascism in 2009.

When will we ever learn?

Authored by: MMulligan on Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 03:02 PM EDT

I just don’t believe in this externalizing it game...it’s Bush’s or the politicians’ fault...as for who cause it, and all our problems, it’s the lazy and people without a consciences...it’s the “good people” and “us”.

We are the most uncourageous people on the face of the planet...we put these phony politicians up in front of us...and we scape-goat them for all of our laziness and couldn’t care about the person who is sitting next to us.

I mean, it’s not a political system in the USA, it’s not designed to manage our country...it’s a scapegoat system.

Authored by: Floyd on Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 04:09 PM EDT

Is this in response to the premise of the film itself, the mini review of it, my comments or something else entirely?

Authored by: MMulligan on Thursday, March 27 2008 @ 09:31 PM EDT

I tired of hearing its Bush’s chickenhawks or Clinton’s whitewater...without all of us looking at ourselves in mirror and knowing we caused it. I am tired of blaming the politicians for what we tolerate. I am tired of all the phoniness and hypocrisy of all “good people” of the USA. I am tired of fighting everyone.