The movie "Why We Fight" did run on the German/French public channel ARTE yesterday. It was saddening and fun to watch.

"Why We Fight" starts with Eisenhower’s 1961 Military-Industrial Complex Speech:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

A movie review continues:

Deploying the general’s farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jarecki launches a full-frontal autopsy of how the will of a people has become an accessory to the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military misadventures and misguided missions, Jarecki asks how–and tells why–a nation ostensibly of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

The very best scene comes directly after an in-depth descriptions of Halliburton/KBR and the enriching career of Dick Cheney.

In an interview Senator John McCain (sympathetic closeup shot in his office) is all so concerned and saddened by the democracy endangering connections between the military industry and the politicians network. At one point an aid for McCain interrupts his lamentations for an urgent phone call.

McCain asks the aid: "Who is it?" – aid whispers: "The Vice President" – McCain: "Who?" – aid louder: "The Vice President" – McCain: "Oh, ahh, oh, excuse me." He smirks, caught with the hand in the cookie jar, into the camera and gets up to take the call. The interview ends there, the movie continues.

Reviews:
Reuters,
Film Threat,
Baltimore Sun