Lions for Lambs

Just watched a movie yesterday and to be honest, I wasnt looking forward to this movie..but seeing the cast...I gave it a shot. Turns out really well! Got me thinking!

- Lions for Lambs
Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
Storyline: A new development in war tactics in Iraq, has a seasoned reporter in the senator's office. The scoop is to inform the nation of the new war tactic and ensure that America will win this time. Thereby garnering votes and sacrificing more men
Its also got a bright yet uncommited student in his lecturers office discussing the meaning of political science and whether fighting (literally & figuritively) is better than scurrying by the sidelines
At the same moment, 2 army men, drop into the ice cold mountain range after an enemy ambush. Surrounded by Taliban forces....one is injured in the arm and leg and another is shot in the arm. To lie low and play dead till reinforcements come...or to stand up play hero and die

This movie talks about only 1 thing. A simple question that has been debated a thousand times by many different groups of people with different backgrounds. This movie is a big scale debate on its own from reporter to senator, from student to lecturer and it leaves you leaving the theatre thinking about who you side with and whether you would do the same.
And this wonderfully debatable movie takes place within 1 hour. The different debates on the same topic happen at the same time with different people, defending their positions with different reasons. Is the fight with IRAQ worth the loss of so many american men & women?
The last scene shows the Pentagon (now good as new) yet along that same road trip, is a long hillside of white tombstones..for the countless men & women who died for the past 6 years.

I believe this movie is soo controversial that they probably had a prob getting it out into the market. The possible reasons to it successfully being shown would be either due to the lack of sensitive info or providing only the info that is already known to the public. Either way..whether the statistics are real or not, it doesnt affect the question. Is this war worth fighting anymore?

This movie will get any debator's blood boiling

God Bless