Bush's War coming to PBS 3/24

I really want to see that except listening to Bush's voice for more than a minute sends me into death spasms. :evil:

pitu wrote: [/sigh]

I saw a preview of a film BODY OF WAR, about a kid who signed up on September 13, 2001 and ended up with his legs blown off after a week in Iraq.
Yeah, he wanted to go fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

It's playing festivals now, but opening theatrically soon.

sounds hopeful.

</sarcasm>

sorry. there's no way I'll see this movie. if I have to fight with my family about the right/wrong of this war, I'm definitely not sitting in a movie about it. no matter how poignant or true. pathetic, I know.

anyone wanna go see doomsday?

9th row from the bottom, fifth picture from the left is the kindest woman i knew in college.

Another war-themed Frontline doc, this time made from footage US National Guard troops shot in Iraq with mini-DV cameras...

FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/

This Week: "Bad Voodoo's War" (60 minutes),
Tuesday, Apr. 1 at 9pm on PBS (check local listings)
Live Discussion: Chat with director Deborah Scranton April 2, 11am ET

Last summer, with the "surge" in Iraq reaching its peak, a band of California-based National Guard
infantrymen calling themselves the "Bad Voodoo Platoon" set off to war. These were no weekend warriors:
Many of them were on their second and third combat tours; one of them had won the Silver Star in 2003,
during the battle for the Baghdad airport.

This Tuesday night, FRONTLINE follows the members of the Bad Voodoo platoon on their latest mission--
escorting convoys of men and material across Iraq on some of the most dangerous roads in the world.

To capture their story in vivid, first-person detail--in the field, back at the base, on leave--
director Deborah Scranton ("The War Tapes") gave the soldiers mini-DV cameras. The resulting film is "Bad Voodoo's War,"
a raw soldier's-eye view of a war that's become alarmingly abstract for most of us.

Riding with Bad Voodoo along treacherous roads at night, one convoy after another,
one month after the next, we feel the soldiers' frustration, fatigue, and occasional terror.
One foggy night, their convoy is hit by a road-side bomb on an infamous stretch of road known as
"IED Alley." The bomb, Sgt.1st Class Toby Nunn is forced to conclude, was planted with the
knowledge of the local Iraqi security forces--the same troops who are now being
counted on to ensure the safety of the country.

"I told myself last time I wanted to train the Iraqis the best I possibly could,
because it was my ticket home," Nunn speaks into his DV camera one night.
"But here I am, three years later, saying, 'Will the Iraqi security forces enforce anything out there?'
Every time I talk to these guys, you know, my 'trust meter' isn't reading in the green all the time."

This is Bad Voodoo's war. But, this film reminds us in one revealing scene after the next,
it's also ours. We hope you'll join us Tuesday night, and after, visit our Web site where
the soldiers are staying in touch with us by sending new videos, shot in recent weeks,
and writing posts on how they're doing.
On our Web site, you also can watch the film again and join in the discussion,
at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/badvoodoo/

Senior Editor
Ken Dornstein

I just watched part one. I have to give it up to Frontline. The just laid it all out there. So lucid, so easy to follow the horrible story from the morning of 9/11 until March 19th, 2003, the first day of the Iraq War (where part 1 ended).

It's mindblowing how obsessed the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal was with going to war in Iraq, and how at the same time they were so patently wrong about everything they based this obsession on.

ev.
ry.
thing.

Ahmad Chalabi was a charlatan.
Iraq had no contact with Al Qaeda whatsoever.
Saddam had abandoned his WMDs years ago.
The yellowcake rumor came from a drunken serial liar who had never even been questioned by Americans.
Iraq never tried to buy aluminum tubes in Niger.
Torturing Al Qaeda foot soldiers provided no 'actionable intelligence'.
A pissing contest allowed Bin Laden to escape in Tora Bora.

Every single premise and talking point for the war was patently wrong.
Cheney-Rumsfeld virtually ensured that every single piece of 'evidence' that was fed to them was fabricated to fit their pre-determined conclusion to go to war.

They circumvented the CIA. They fired generals who tried to tell the truth about the actual costs of the war. They kept congress in the dark. They prevented the intelligence community from formulating an NIE (prior to briefing Congress). They ran end-arounds around the SECRETARY OF STATE AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY (Powell & Rice). Cheney hand-picked and force-fed every piece of intelligence that came across the president's desk.

It's mindblowing how wrong, how horribly wrong, Cheney-Rumsfeld, Bush, and their enablers such as Rice, Powell and Tenet, truly were.

Going to war in Iraq was a failure and a mistake of the highest conceivable level.