If you find the 'trailer' introduction 'stalls' every once in awhile then run the curser over it and it will proceed to the 'enter' screen.
I forgot to mention there are 'English subtitles' to "Tuya's Marriage." After awhile they become invisible as your read them.
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
Bouy, was this an eye opener to everyone in the audience. At times, members of the audience could not or would not deal with the reality or the graphic 'understanding' of the nature of the government and military under Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and left the theater. There were only a few but every time it was when there came a stark understanding of the hideous dimensions our country had become under this Executive Branch.
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
Bouy, was this an eye opener to everyone in the audience. At times, members of the audience could not or would not deal with the reality or the graphic 'understanding' of the nature of the government and military under Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and left the theater. There were only a few but every time it was when there came a stark understanding of the hideous dimensions our country had become under this Executive Branch.
Gitmo. It simply needs to be shut down. The majority of the detainees there are actually innocent people that became hostages to the warlords of Afghanistan, then handed over to the moronic USA military for reward monies. The majority are NOT dangerous terrorists that need to be on an island 'warehouse' to protect the people of the USA. Most are some bodies husband, son or father. They don't belong on Gitmo and never did. Their interrogations were for 'practice' to what would work and what wouldn't. The 'thing' is the practice of the torture methods weren't even on terrorists with information. These people basically knew nothing, not even the reason they were there.
Oh, there are a dearly few 'bad guys' among them, but, even they didn't deserve the treatment rendered under the Rumsfeld/Bush/Cheney 'approved' torture regime. It's outrageous to believe any aspect of Gitmo was worthy of the name American. The film is witness to The World Courts as to the extreme cruelty that rendered even the most valuable detainee worthless in supplying information to defeat al Qaeda. The USA can't be allowed to get away with this, as a matter of fact, there needs to be convened a New Geneva Conventions which 'specifically' outlaws torture included in the current standards. Every torture imaginable has been tried and 'practiced' at Gitmo, the records will provide guidelines to the extremes human beings should not be treated when captured as prisoners.
There was no respect for any aspect of the lives of the detainees. The detainees were and are political icons of power over an enemy that escaped the USA military in Afghanistan right upto the point where the USA literally abandoned the 'real war' for the 'oil war' in Iraq. Gitmo is an icon of failure of USA policy which should outshine any standard the world has set. Instead, it stands in ridicule to the indulgence of political Neocon ideologies which are entrenched in foreign ideas of torture extrapolated to what the Rumsfeld War Department would come to value as 'superior methods,' when in fact they were simply experiments never before rendered as effective or prudent yet alone humane.
The United States of America has to come to terms with the 'goings on' of the Bush Executive Branch. What is really disturbing is that the 'candidates' currently running for president as Republicans are simply rubber stamps of Bush. I have yet heard of any reporting regarding answers to debate questions like, "What would you do about Gitmo?" and "Would you ever proceed with such practices again?" As far as I am concerned the candidate debates have taken a light touch to any subject that would 'indict' the current administration as incompetent, litigable or tresonist.
The United States of America has to come to terms with the 'goings on' of the Bush Executive Branch. What is really disturbing is that the 'candidates' currently running for president as Republicans are simply rubber stamps of Bush. I have yet heard of any reporting regarding answers to debate questions like, "What would you do about Gitmo?" and "Would you ever proceed with such practices again?" As far as I am concerned the candidate debates have taken a light touch to any subject that would 'indict' the current administration as incompetent, litigable or tresonist.
The debates from where I stand haven't even begun to take off the 'kit gloves' to the 'real issues' and as a result current polling for Bush has brought 'the base' back in line with his approval ratings, a continued dismal thirty something percent.
The film is an indictment. One that every American whom sincerely cares about their country needs to see. It speaks for itself and to date I don't recall any other accounting in any media to be as graphically correct in depicting the outrageous directives of the Executive Branch to any reason for war or torture.
