Frontline: Bush's War

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Director : Michael Kirk
Format : Import, NTSC
Aspect Ratio : 1.77:1
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0841887009447
Product Group : DVD
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Studio : PBS
UPC : 841887009447

ASIN : B00169E5J6

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Connecting all the dots (2008-06-22)

There are literally mountains of books out there about the 2003 Iraq War, to say nothing of the omnipresent musings of an army of online pundits. Save yourself the time and watch this documentary instead, culled together from six years worth of Fontline interviews with members of the CIA, military establishment, Bush administration, and a select few who had direct access to Bush's inner circle (Bob Woodward, Condoleeza Rice's biographer, etc). In painstaking detail, the Frontline crew map out the entire build-up to the Iraq invasion from the moment the Twin Towers fell, through to the debacle that ensued once the U.S. military was facing an insurgency it was unprepared for. All the dots are connected, including the fudged intelligence, the order to torture detainees at Guantanemo and Abu Ghraib, the Valerie Plame scandal, and so on. If there is a thesis underlying "Bush's War", it's that George Bush presided over the most dysfunctional Executive in modern history...the disastrous Iraq War is as much the product of clashing egos (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell) as anything else. It is not at all surprising one official after another has written a "tell-all" book upon leaving the administration (Scott McLellan, Richard Clarke, George Tenet), because the White House was run with all the discipline of a high school playground.While the documentary doesn't delve too far into the controversial (and often alleged) motivations behind the war, what's gathered here is an indisputable factual account of what happened; "Bush's War" should serve as your entry point into learning the truth about Iraq. Dozens of books are readily available outlining the background of the war, Gwynne Dyer's trilogy (Ignorant Armies, Future Tense, The Mess They Made) being the most clearly written IMO.Yes this can be viewed online, but it's worth picking up on DVD, and showing to everyone you know. As a companion, track down Bill Moyers' "Buying the War", outlining the U.S. media's culpibility in selling the war on the American public.

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