Director's Statement

My wife Carol & I traveled across the U.S. to make this documentary. Our motive was simple - we felt that an important story about the war was not being told. These vets who oppose the very war they fought in were not making sweeping statements or generalizing. Their ideas developed after seeing and hearing specific things in Iraq.
One vet, an ordinary guy named Dave, from Illinois, went to Iraq believing that the U.S. was there to help the people of that country. He witnessed massive upheaval in their lives -- cities in ruin, civilian deaths, no water, and no power. These experiences eventually helped to change Dave's mind about the war.
Where can you hear stories like this? We weren't exposed to anything like these stories on the major media. There was broad support for the war, on the one hand, or stories of big scandals on the other, but nothing like this, the quiet opinions of many ordinary vets. These are stories that need to be heard.