A very well put together documentary this,but,it's like: "tell us something we dont know". I saw the director on "The Daily Show" last year,so put it on my rental list...The director bases his exposition around the "farewell speech" of President Eisenhower, when he identified the "Military (Congressional) Complex"that the USA ("United States of Amnesia" as GoreVidal says) has instigated ,following victory,by the Allies,headed by the U.S. over the Nazis in 1945 , and the assumption of the pre-eminence of the U.S.A among the "Western" powers...The "Cold War" with Russia was to fuel this military/corporate machine through the next three decades... He dropped the reference to The Congress seemingly out of politeness,but it is no mistake that Arms manufacturers spread their production facilities across as many States as possible in order to retain congressional backing. The counterpoint throughout to the regular "history lesson" is the story of a retired New York cop,who,having lost a son in the World Trade Centre attack,at first feels some "closure" by having his son's name put on a bomb that would later fall on Baghdad, he obviously comes to regret this,not fully expressing his shame,but ,as many of us surely do now,feels betrayed,and lied to by his President. I say "many of US",because a glaring omission by the film-maker is to make no mention of British P.M Tony Blair in all this.He was a major facilitator of the war!..Following his instigation of the bombing and invasion of Kosovo,to which the U.S (in true WW 2 style) needed convincing of,and came in late,made several speeches ,pre 2001 ,in which he spoke of further justified "pre-emptive strikes" for the common good. This guy really does like playing God. He read Strauss and Berlin ,and venerated them,i wonder wether Dubya had such an ideological approach? His blue-print then extended from the successful and ultimately justified"humanitarian" intervention against Milosovic in Kosovo, to "Rogue States",like Iraq (number one on the list of course) with "WMD" ,yes that famous ringing endightment of an acronym.He was a major political facilitator of the Iraq War.. Eisenhower's worst nightmare of an administration and congress that just gives the "war machine" whatever it wants,and who's members ,in the extreme case of Dick Cheney,are more or less in the business of Arms procurement has come to pass ."Why We Fight" flags up the skewed priorities of the U.S ,with TRILLIONS being spent on arms,a million dollars a minute..ready to be deployed in the name of Freedom and Democracy..with "Kellog Brown and Root" doing the catering.