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The $99 Load of Laundry

This movie is truly excellent. If you read this blog, much of what is discussed in it will not be new to you. Still, I encourage you to rent/buy it. What is best about it is the way in which it speaks so effectively to the audience that needs to hear the message the most- Bush voters. It is impossible to view this film and not come away with the sense that working class white Christians and patriots are little more than cannon fodder and slave labor for the elite warmongers and profiteers. If you have moderate or right leaning friends and neighbors, buy them a copy. For however much you may feel you’ve been unable to convince them to hold your liberal views on the war, this movie will speak to them in their own language and leave them with undeniable rage and disgust. Bottom line: the war is about making money of a reactionary clique of wealthy people, and no amount of sacrificed American blood or treasure will stay their greed. What made me the most angry: how cheaply our politicians are bought. War profiteers make billions, and buy the politicians who keep the war going for literally pennies on the dollar. Truly, the evil in Washington is merely banal. It almost makes me wish for evildoers of more mythic form, for the generation we have now will hardly register more than dismissive contempt in the minds of future students of history.