My wife and I recently watched The Ground Truth, a great documentary on the Iraq war, particularly its effect on the women and men who fight it. This 78-minute gem, directed by Patricia Foulkrod is pro-troops, anti-war and non-political in the sense that (as far as I remember) no politicians or political parties are named. Instead, the focus is on how these young people are drawn into the military with sanitized sales-pitches, trained to become killers, unleashed into an impossible situation, then dumped back into society. The Ground Truth looks unflinchingly at the horrors of civilian casualties, and anyone who remembers the horrendous moral dilemmas faced by the troops in Vietnam will find this all very familiar.
The Ground Truth
November 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
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1 jhill // Dec 2, 2006 at 11:01 am
Here’s the thing… I haven’t seen anyone post a comment on this blog in a while! I don’t know what that means, because after the little incident on the discussion board
I recieved all kinds of phone calls from people who never posted in their lives, so I know people are reading!!! Anyway… Just from your review of the movie, it sounds pro democratic. Just because no parties are mentioned, doesn’t mean a thing. I’m not saying there were no truths to what was said and shown, but a true documentary has a solution at least hypothesized at the end, I assume this one did not, except get us out of Iraq… I could be wrong though. There are no sales pitches at recruiting! How stupid do you have to be, to believe that crap anyway, and stupid is a nice term!!! If you went into the military because you were lied to by the recruiter, then you’re probably not the sharpest tool in the shed! You go to a recruiter, kind of like a guidance counselor, you already have your own ideas, now you need help! After he or she gives you the info, then you do your own research! Whoooooo would sign their life away for 4-6 years, without doing any kind of research what so ever???????????????????????????? DO NOT feel sorry for these people!!! Can you honestly say, you would join the military and think you would never have to go to war or that there was no chance of it?? Folks I joined to go to war, that’s why I joined what I did!!!! Who wants to join the military to sit around? If you are one of these people, it sucks to be you! You signed the dotted line, accept it, because you have to live with it, you don’t have a choice!!! :)))) I don’t see a moral dillema… If someone points a gun at you, what do you do? If your answer was uh…. Then tell me were you would like your flowers sent!!! I’ll tell you this fact! No one is in Iraq killing people, who didn’t directly sign up to be in a fighting BN!!! If you have an issue with possibly shooting people, then why in the world would you sign up to go into the infantry! It’s all so easy, but made so complicated by people who aren’t going to be productive members of society anyway, now they’re looking for “poor you” sympathizers!! DOn’t be one of these people!!!!!!
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