a movie by : Béatrice Pignède and Francesco Condemi   Here we are. It is war. The US president has even announced he might use "mini-nukes" (mini nuclear weapons) against a country which is now known as part of an axis of evil. But what do we actually know? And what is at stake in these wars against Iraq?

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At a time when George Bush, the son, prepares to complete the work of his father, it seems essential to us to understand what kind of war is being waged : following the Gulf war, which we believed had been won, the war which continues in more subtle terms with the embargo, and the new war, the reasons for which have not been given even if it has already been scheduled.

This film takes as its starting point the european or westerner perspective of the conflict, and then seeks to encompass the perception of the iraqis, the official account of the regime and above all the viewpoint of the ordinary citizen as of representatives of communities traditionnaly opposed to Saddam Hussein (such as the Catholics, the Shiites, the Jews...).

Many doors which would otherwise have remained closed open before a delegation of 120 "peace inspectors", mostly from Europe, but also from north Africa, moved by an appeal launched on the internet. Two british and french veterans from the Gulf war, who since then have left the military, permit us to penetrate the double wall of silence that imprisons the iraqi population. During further encounters with iraqi soldiers, scientists or artists, their gaze crosses ours in regard to the proclaimed will to liberate the Iraqis.

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