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SYNOPSIS

After the 9/11 attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States rallied a great coalition of allies and sent military forces into Afghanistan. Two years later, President George W. Bush told the nation that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and had to be preemptively stopped. In March 2003, the US invaded Iraq.

While many documentary films have been made about the post-911 wars, most provide a narrow focus on a single person or platoon, a single battle or incident. What I Want You To Know is a broad accounting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an exploration of their costs and consequences, as told through interviews with veterans who served in combat roles in the Army and the Marines, in different ranks and specialties, and who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, or both. Through deeply personal stories told with courage and candor - stories that are usually only talked about in private with other veterans – they share their experiences during and after their deployments and paint a picture of the moral complexities and impacts of their wars, and of war itself.

 What I Want You To Know lays bare the extent of what war does to those who do the actual fighting, particularly with regard to moral injury, the profound psychological and emotional wound that many veterans carry from their wartime experiences.

NOTE: What I Want You To Know contains authentic, uncensored stories, images and video from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which some might find disturbing