Five years of the Iraq War... Five years of my life, there's no escape from it... So this Monday I was lucky enough to be flipping through the channels and stumble on PBS's Frontline special "Bush's War." It was amazing! It seemed like it was the unfiltered (though slanted left) truth. It's not a happy story. The two-part series begins with 9/11 and 4.5 hours later it ends with the surge, or "The Surge!"
"Is it working?" "Now what?"
The format is narration with interviews from top administration officials, biographers, news reports, etc. interwoven with amazing, candid photographs (mostly black and white) of Bush and his crony's at work. Wars don't start themselves, you know!
I could go on and on about this... It was amazing to see all the deceit and infighting amongst top officials. They thought they had such a fucking great idea and then things just seemed to spiral out of control. Nothing went according to plan... and sometimes they didn't have a plan at all! Neo-cons, man. It could have been stopped so many different times, interestingly enough, at one point it seemed like everyone was having second thoughts, but they never all had second thoughts at the same time; decent strategery never prevailed; we created a shit storm.
Anyhow, I put the YouTube preview of Part 1 below, you should watch it sometime. It's kinda scary! I feel like every good, well-informed American could gain some knowledge of how this government really worked leading up, and then completely fucking up, war in Iraq. And it's all here! Hopefully it comes out on DVD soon, I'd buy that piece.
Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park Foundation.
2 comments:
Watched the first part, amazing perspective.
Yeah, like I said, this series was AMAZING!
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