My Country, My Country (2006)

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Is it possible to conduct democratic elections in a war zone? Can a foreign
military force bring Western-style democracy to the Muslim world? For U.S.
military and diplomatic planners in Iraq, the answer to both questions has been
a resolute "yes." For Iraqis, these contradictions have led to tragic
consequences as political uncertainty and mounting violence continue to
dominate daily life more than three years after the U.S. invasion.

The state of democracy, both Iraq's and the United States', is the focus of
Laura Poitras's new documentary, "My Country, My Country," an unforgettable
journey into the heart of war-ravaged Iraq in the months leading up to the
January 2005 elections. Symbolized by fingers marked with purple ink, the 2005
elections posed challenges to all sides of the debate about the war. Despite
death threats from terrorists, voter turnout in Iraq was higher than in the
U.S., and in spite of claims that the elections were an Iraqi process, U.S.
military planners oversaw most aspects of them.

Working and traveling alone in Iraq during a time when few Western journalists
ventured from their compounds and bodyguards, filmmaker Laura Poitras captures
the war and the elections from the inside. Her protagonist is Dr. Riyadh (last
name withheld for security reasons), an Iraqi doctor, father of six, devout
Sunni Muslim, and political candidate in Iraq's largest Sunni political party,
the Iraqi Islamic Party. An outspoken critic of the U.S. occupation, he is
equally passionate about building democracy in Iraq.

"My Country, My Country" finds the pulse of a country thrown violently into
chaos. On the streets and roads of Iraq, a constant background noise of
helicopters, explosions, gunfire, TV reports of suicide bombings and fractious
opinions fill daily life. From ebullient Kurdish Peshmerga militia who
celebrate their new autonomy - foreshadowing civil war - to workers at voter-
registration sites who seem as fearful as they are hopeful, to the tumultuous
headquarters of the Sunni-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party, Poitras discovers a
far more precarious and tragic situation than imagined in debates about the
war. On the ground, the stakes are life and death. U.S. military trainers brief
American soldiers about the growing anti-American sentiment. And many Iraqis,
for all their differences, clearly share one common reality: They are as afraid
of U.S. soldiers as they are of suicide bombers.

Air Date........October 25, 2006
Release Date....October 27, 2006
Genre...........Documentary

Source.......Analogue TV
Video........640x368, 1015.9kb/s, 24fps, XviD
Audio........mp3,112kb/s, 48.0khz, stereo
Length.......1 hour, 26 minutes, 17 seconds
Size.........700.2mb

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