BODY OF WAR - NO MORE WAR

To those of you who may not have yet heard the news!

The National Academy of Motion Pictures has notified us that:

Body of War
Has been selected for the short list !!!

The "Short List" includes fifteen feature documentaries --- ( from a field of 80) from which a list of five will be chosen as the nominees, this final five will be announced in January -
The winner, of course, will be announced at the Oscar telecast in February.
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"Body of War" is a powerful argument against impetuous decisions, be they to join the military or to attack a country, "Body of War" compares the dawning political consciousness of a disabled vet with painfully extended footage from congressional debate on the 2002 resolution giving President Bush authority to invade Iraq. By documenting the difficult life of their paraplegic subject, Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue succeed in personalizing some of the war's grim statistics...

Like men of another generation who enlisted after Pearl Harbor, Tomas Young joined the Army on September 13, 2001, after seeing President Bush stand in front of Ground Zero rubble and promise to hunt down those who attacked us. He expected to go to Afghanistan in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but eventually found himself shipped off to Iraq. For about five days -- after which his unarmored vehicle was attacked, and an AK-47 round pierced his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed.

Eddie Vedder's song "No More War" which he offered to Phil Donahue adds a poignant, lamentable background sound to the film. Here are the lyrics...

No More War

I speak for a man who gave for this land
Took a bullet in the back for his pay
Spilled his blood in the dirt and the dust
He's back to say:

What he has seen is hard to believe
And it does no good to just pray
He asks of us to stand
And we must end this war today

With his mind, he's saying, "No more!"
With his heart, he's saying, "No more!"
With his life he's saying, "No more war!"

With his eyes, he's saying, "No more!"
With his body, he's saying, "No more!"
With his voice, he's saying, "No more war!"

Yeah, nothing's too good for a veteran
Yeah, this is what they say
So nothing is what they will get
And there's no American way

The lies we were told to get us to go
Were criminal (?)... let us be straight
Let's get to the point where our voices get heard
And I know what I'll say

With his mind, he's saying, "No more!"
With his heart, he's saying, "No more!"
With his life he's saying, "No more war!"

With his eyes, he's saying, "No more!"
With his voice, he's saying, "No more!"
With his body, he's saying, "No more war!"

No more innocents dying
No more terror rising
No more eulogizing
No more evangelizing
No more presidents lying
No more war

With our minds, we're saying, "No more!"
With our hearts, we're saying, "No more!"
With our lives, we're saying, "No more war!"

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[thethinkingblue]

The filmmakers hope the film will be in theaters within the next year.

[biloreal]

Im a Vet, and this war should end, it will never end unless we leave. Ive been over there, they do not want us there. No More!!!

[julichvyasdi]

Thank you so much for this film. I am going to watch Bill Moyers right now to view more about this film.

Support IVAW and take our country back! Educate yourselves and march in the streets....yell at the top of your lungs "BRING OUR BOYS HOME"

NO MORE PRESIDENTS LYING!!!!

NO MORE WAR

[doogleandalix]

@biloreal If you agree with nothing else Ron Paul has to say ( and I agree with about 90%), his call for immediate troop withdrawl is reason enough to vote for him ! NO OTHER candidate has any plan to get out of the Middle East in less than another decade ! We are bankrupt - our young soldiers' lives forever altered ,many disabled ,amputees -these are real people ! Any they don't even know why we are STILL there - another Vietnam . Why don't people learn from history ? VOTE RON PAUL!

[katproductionsinc]

Checkout the new war song on Youtube "Spilling Our Blood For War" then buy it on iTunes.

[castlemints75]

is that what it is?

[funkeddown]

Possibly endeavours of incredible long term folly... Certainly so if engagement is lost.

[staindforever]

The movie "Body of War" is life changing.

[kaz11007]

its not die for you country but die for halliburton and many other companies

[36167920]

die for your country, or one which does not cause conflict?

[jeanjeudy]

nice video

but I have no comment

I am a proud American Soldier

[MrRightAllTime]

wtf, america soldier lovr to die for their land and ameirca fight to save its own ass from hiter you whore job