Janis Karpinski, Kathryn Helvenston, Tom Zovko, Donna Zovko, Jozo Zovko
Join documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed) in assessing the damage done to average Americans when corporations decide to wage war. For critics of the ... read more 
DVD Release Date: September 26, 2006
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Flixster Reviews (213)
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April 10, 2010This movie should make you angry no matter what your political affiliation. It got a lot better towards the end...
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January 16, 2009i almost stopped after ten minutes and was prepared to give it a bad rating, but i'm glad i stuck through it. i believe a documentary should be artfully done since that is one thing that differentiates a documentary from a mere video report. this is not the most artful of documen... read more
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June 1, 2008Though a good and interesting documentary, it suffers from being extremely one-sided. There is no dissension which makes this appear as if it were liberal propaganda.
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July 23, 2007Informative, shocking, and depressing. There's no doubt that privatization unchecked is abusive to taxpayers and soldiers alike. I would have liked to hear interviews from the other side of the issues raised -- even 60 minutes does that.
Critic Reviews
November 6, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
September 27, 2006
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
If Greenwald can sneak this onto the air in place of this week's Desperate Housewives, we might start to see some changes around here. Full Review
September 20, 2006
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
A credible indictment against corporations currently enjoying windfall profits thanks to the Iraq war.
September 15, 2006
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Greenwald is skillful enough to spark a fresh sense of outrage. Full Review
September 8, 2006
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
... Iraq for Sale has an us-versus-them sensibility that's extremely effective.
September 8, 2006
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Whatever you might think about the centrality of the profit motive to our society, what's going on in Iraq is going to give you pause. Full Review
September 8, 2006
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Iraq for Sale isn't balanced or objective. It carries the torch for the families of civilians who died while driving unprotected trucks on unsafe routes. Full Review
September 5, 2006
Drew Tillman, Village Voice
Both a trenchant indictment of war profiteering in Iraq and a memorial for those not included in the military's death toll, Iraq for Sale is a work of intense disillusionment. Full Review
March 8, 2007
Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
Well-researched, hair-raising investigation of capitalist thievery in Iraq at the expense of the American tax-payer, the GI's and the Iraqi people. Full Review
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