BillCosby

Watch it you got the balls.........

Something I know most of you chickenhawks are lacking... That is unless we are talking about those on other ppl's kids..........

I dare any one of you to watch this pbs series & comment on bush's war..............



If you watch only one report or read one article in connection with the fifth anniversary of the war, make it this 4 1/2 -hour film. It will make you among the best informed as to how America came to find itself in the conflict and why so many things went so wrong on the ground in Iraq.

Starting with Sept. 11, 2001, and continuing through last year's troop surge, writer and director Michael Kirk crafts a compelling TV narrative that is a triumph of journalism and filmmaking.

The journalism part involves gathering, processing and verifying so much information in one place.

Kirk and reporter-producer Jim Gilmore focus on moments of passage - the reaction within the Bush White House in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, the decision to invade Iraq, and the confusion when it became apparent that America was going to have to occupy the defeated country but had no plan on how to do so.

At every turn, memos from key players are shared with viewers, while participants are interviewed on-camera. And, then, their written and spoken words are cross-checked with other participants and accounts for verification.

Critics from the right have charged Frontline with liberal bias over the years. But while Bush's War feels almost Biblical in its ultimate condemnation of the president, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld for their execution of the war, the documentary includes officials from all sides of the issue. Such high-level Bush administration players as Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, and L. Paul Bremer III, who served as American administrator in Iraq in the early days of the war, are interviewed extensively.

But so much information would be impossible to process if not for the deft touch of director Kirk, who wraps all the data in a visual tapestry reminiscent of Alan J. Pakula's 1976 feature film All the President's Men. As the narration tells viewers of secret meetings, internecine feuds, backroom deals and political back-stabbing at the highest levels, viewers are carried along on a river of images suggesting a government run behind closed doors - both in Washington and Iraq.

Ultimately, Bush's War might also come to be judged a first-rate work of history. It certainly feels like history with its richly textured and strongly supported narrative of cause and effect helping explain a bewildering rush of events that have left thousands dead.

But it is still too soon to make that call.

For now, just enjoy the documentary. Clear some time tonight and tomorrow to watch Bush's War - and be thankful that there is still a public television system in this country that can produce such stellar work.

>>>On TV Bush's War airs at 9 tonight and tomorrow night on MPT (Channels 22 and 67).

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Preventive war is not war!!!!Counter-terror is not terror

neptune

I love my TiVo!

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Holy Mudhead, mackerel! Morse Science High!
It's....disappeared!
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BillCosby

Me to..........

I have watched about half the first epidsode I will finish that one tonight..... It is very troubling......

I was not aware of some of this.... SOme was mere rumor & some confirms the sheer stupidity to a first term preZ thinking he is somehow facing problems unique to him & is on a mission from God..........

Fucking cheney playing this fool like a dog leads a blind man............

I guess we can feel lucky that cheney had the ass for IraQ instead of Russia or we all might be dead.....................

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Kanadesaga

I have been saying for years that cheney is the most evil man on the planet, bar none. No one believes me.

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Dawnling

I believe you and I'll hold him down for you!

Dawnling

The people keep saying that

"they looked for intelligence",

"they wanted intelligence",

"he kept asking for intelligence",

" he wasn't getting the intelligence that he wanted".

You and I know what they mean but
that still is funny on a not-funny subject.
That is shooting-fish-in-a-barrel comedy!
...too easy!

BillCosby

I wouldn't argue w/ that............

Especially if that could be put to a vote........ Everyone over 18 on earth gets a vote...........

bush & cheney 1 & 2........... Not even a close second..........

Even in Europe they are more hated & feared than putin or anyone else............ That is really fucking sad...........

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Dawnling

Hun, we just HAVE to do something about it other
than get mad, ne c'pas?

BillCosby

I wonder why all the chickenhawks have not chirped in yet.....????

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Preventive war is not war!!!!Counter-terror is not terror