Iraq for Sale

If you want to know some of the economic motivations behind the war in Iraq, watch Iraq for Sale by the filmmaker Robert Greenwald.

The film documents the increase in what Dwight Eisenhower dubbed the "military-industrial complex." In his original speech, however, he included "congress," which is truly more accurate. Private contracts with corporations like Blackwater and Halliburton create dangerous complexities in what is already the most complex move a country can make - war. The United States sends civilians to do jobs formerly covered by the American military, and this film addresses the serious questions that such a way of fighting a war raises.


Seriously, it's the full film. Watch it all. Here it is.