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Learn history. Then change it.
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War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception... more | add synopsis
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I Found Out That I Didn't Know What I Thought I Knew. more (11 total)

Cast

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George Bush ... (archive footage)

George W. Bush ... Himself (archive footage)

Bill Clinton ... (archive footage)
Phil Donahue ... (archive footage)
Lyndon Johnson ... (archive footage)
Barbara Lee ... (archive footage)
Robert McNamara ... (archive footage)
Wayne Morse ... (archive footage)
Richard Nixon ... (archive footage)
Bill O'Reilly ... (archive footage)

Sean Penn ... Narrator
Colin Powell ... (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld ... (archive footage)
Norman Solomon ... Interviewee
Paul Wolfowitz ... (archive footage)
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Runtime:
73 min
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Color (NTSC Color)
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1.78 : 1 more
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Stereo (Western Electric Sound System)

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29 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
I Found Out That I Didn't Know What I Thought I Knew., 22 November 2007
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Author: joeaneal from United States

I am a very critical thinker and have prided myself on not being taken in the propaganda of our business (greed) interested media. After seeing this movie at an University of Oregon symposium I am shaking my head at how easy it is to manipulate the mass population, whether it is by the right or the left, and whether they are on guard. I never connected the dots before on how easy it is to sell war and just how gullible we all are.

This movie should be shown in every critical thinking class at both the high school and college level. It is a wake up call for all of us to protect ourselves from the subtle, effective media propaganda that influences us in just about all our decisions.

Although this movies is critical of our current president and his politics, it doesn't treat kindly those who preceded him in the office of the presidency. The way things stand today the choice between Democrat or Republican is simply what ever we have been told it is and doesn't equate to the reality of politics where money rules.

I probably have talked to most of my friends about this movie more than any other movie this year. I can guarantee you more than one epipthany.

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