The Iraq War (March 20, 2003-December 18, 2011), which lasted for several years, was one of the most tragic wars since the Second World War.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and injured in Iraq and the United States, and millions of civilians were displaced. However, it also provided a continuous source of creativity for the film industry, allowing people to reexamine and reflect on this tragic war.
Among the outstanding works, there are Oscar-winning films like "American Sniper" and "The Hurt Locker" that face the battlefield, and there are also "The Breadwinner" that focuses on the suffering of people under war.
Director Adam McKay, who made his debut with "Space Head", this time the new work "Vice President" tells about the promotion of this war by Dick Cheney , who served as Vice President during President Bush Jr.
Although in the U.S. government, the vice president can be described as a "insignificant" tasteless role, Dick Cheney just relied on his close relationship with the Bush family (he served as the Secretary of Defense under Bush’s father, Bush Sr., and helped the young Bush became president), under shrewd calculations, made himself the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States, just as the movie shows.
As a result, during the "ruling" period between him and Bush Jr., a bloody storm that lasted for a long time arrived.
The first to bear the brunt was the "9.11 Incident."
Just half a year after Bush Jr. was sworn in as President on January 20, 2001, he entered the White House.
"September 11 attacks" occurred.
This is a series of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, USA on September 11, 2001:
Two civil airliners hijacked by terrorists crashed into Building 1 and Building 2 of the World Trade Center in New York, USA. The two buildings subsequently collapsed. The total number of victims after the disaster reached 2,996, which is appalling and caused directly or indirectly. The loss of 200 billion US dollars in the United States.
What's more serious is that this incident has caused a heavy psychological shadow on the American people, which will last for a long time, because there has never been such a large-scale terrorist attack in the United States.
This made them realize that this piece of land that was never affected by World War I or World War II is no longer safe and terrorist incidents can happen anytime and anywhere.
The Bush administration of the new official will naturally respond to this.
In October 2001, Bush Jr. launched the war in Afghanistan, overthrowing the Taliban regime and eradicating the al-Qaeda organizations that caused the September 11 incident.
He then launched the Iraq War in March 2003. This war lasted more than seven years and eventually overthrew the Saddam regime.
The main reason is that the Bush administration believes that Iraqi President Saddam is "connected" to the criminals of the September 11 incident. It unilaterally launched an attack on Iraq on the grounds that he possessed weapons of mass destruction and secretly supported terrorists. war.
But the truth of the matter is that the Iraq War was an absurd battle in which Vice President Dick Cheney obfuscated a large amount of intelligence in order to prove that the then Iraqi President Saddam was connected with the criminals of the September 11th incident. He not only deliberately asked Congress and the public "submitted false information," and repeatedly lobbyed for Iraq to possess weapons of mass destruction, and proposed to invade Iraq to defend the United States.
These are mentioned in the "Vice President", but what it does not explicitly say is:
Although there is no very clear evidence, Washington Post reporters unanimously believe that Vice President Cheney is so "focused" to control Iraq's oil, natural gas and other resources.
Related details also appear in "Vice President". Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton Group (one of the world's largest suppliers of products and services to the energy industry before he became Bush’s deputy). 1) The company has won huge contracts in projects such as the reconstruction of Iraq.
What has not been mentioned in the film is that after graduating from Harvard, Bush Jr. also worked in the oil industry in Texas. After entering politics, he was still a director of Harken Energy. The prodigal son of Dengtu took the position of President of the United States, largely because a group of oil and financial consortium tycoons led by Cheney continued to build momentum, allowing him to narrowly defeat the Democratic candidate Al Gore at the last minute.
There is also a point of view that the Iraq War is not only to control the oil trade, but also to eliminate the Saddam regime’s threat to Israel (the U.S. iron strike ally). In the confrontation between Palestine and Israel, the Saddam regime has always supported Palestine. As the only country in the Middle East that can contend with Israel and has repeatedly clashed with Israel, the Saddam regime also publicly announced in 2000 that it would provide Palestine with 1 billion euros a year in aid.
Moreover, while attacking the Saddam regime, it is also conducive to safeguarding the interests of the United States in the Middle East and consolidating its own hegemonism.
All in all, the country of Iraq is very important to the United States, or the Bush Jr. administration feels that it is very important to the United States, so a war broke out due to various interests.
The consequences of this war are also tragic. Not only did many innocent civilians be trapped in the chaos of the war, but also the chain effect of another war in Afghanistan and a series of policies led to the US fiscal surplus from before the war in 2001. The fiscal deficit has reached a record high of US$1 trillion for the whole year.
In 2004, when Bush Jr.'s first term ended, the United States had gone from being the largest creditor nation in the 1970s to being the largest debtor nation.
In the 2006 national survey, Bush Jr.’s recognition of his administration stayed at 32%, setting a record for the lowest recognition of all generations of American presidents.
The global financial crisis that started on Wall Street in the United States from 2007 to 2009 was also largely due to the butterfly effect of the above behaviors.
However, these behaviors are obviously alienated in "Vice President". The evil side of Vice President Cheney has been excessively magnified, making him look like the master manipulating everything behind the scenes.
But in reality, it is the Bush Jr. administration and the Republican Party as a whole that affects all of this. Of course, it can also be said that other interconnected countries have ties, and Cheney is just one of the people who has the right to speak.
For example, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld acted arbitrarily in the "reverse SA" war plan, and vigorously promoted the "reverse SA" policy. The methods were tough and the purpose was extreme. A congressman and general asked to step down.
The Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz strongly opposed letting the Saddam regime come to power during the period of President Bush Sr. (1989 ~ 1993). February 20) and lobbied everywhere to allow Iraqi guerrillas supported by Iraqi exiles to provide resources, but they were all rejected one by one. It was not until Bush Jr. that he got his wish, and was ridiculed by the public as "the designer of the Iraq war."
These characters and those who have never appeared in the film jointly promote the process of history and make the world appear as it is today. Although most of the behaviors are disgusting, it is always a fact.
"Vice President" satirized them with a very ridiculous and radical comedy.
However, the biggest irony in "Vice President" is the end credit egg:
A group of people started a discussion about this after watching "Vice President". Some people talked about Hillary, some people talked about Trump, and some people talked about the latest "Fast and Passion".
Not only satirized the current affairs, but also satirized the audience, and finally even satirized himself, not as attractive as a popcorn movie.
But no matter what the audience cares about, they are always under the mist of history, manipulated by the power-dominant.
Under the illusory glory, to fight a doomed unrighteous war for a fictitious threat, and for which he lost his life.
This may be a deeper level of banter in "Vice President."
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