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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a 2007 American documentary film. The film is narrated by Sean Penn and is adapted from the book of the same name, authored by Norman Solomon. The film attempts to expose how the American government over 50 years has tried to strum up war effort using the media as a tool. ""War Made Easy" gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq." "New York Times" columnist Jeannette Catsoulis described