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Bush’s War

By Gregon

I love history. And I’m a sucker for historical documentaries, which reveal how things unfolded, action by action. So, I just have to point you towards the recent Frontline documentary “Bush’s War“. It’s just a wonderful, concise but insightful look at a defining part of our history – told by many of those who were there. On the Frontline website you can view the complete documentary (4 hours or so), which charts developments from 9/11 through to the modern day, as well as loads of extra content: complete interview transcripts, background articles, extra video content, timelines, etc. It’s sad and enlightening, all at once.

I’m very sorry to have hardly heard anything about this documentary in the news or online. A sad state of affairs when something of this importance is ignored, but everyone clambers for their dose of celebrity gossip. What have we become…

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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6 Comments

  3. bush’s war
    That was a very good documentary–but with a number of *major* omissions, vis-a-vis contributing causes to the war: oil and energy interests, Israel, and the host of military/industrial profiteers. All of these were essentially ignored, yet in some ways I’d say they were even more important than any of the factors they did cite (e.g., Chalabi, “bad intelligence,” etc.)

    So my question is, *why* did they ignore these things?

    Ray G.

    1. The system
      That is why.

      People are afraid to touch the system. If they did, it might be affected in ways they can’t control. As if they controlled the system, and it was not the other way around, of course.

      This of course makes it funny when those same people talk of their concept freedom. Because freedom remains a concept and is not a reality so long as you belong to something else than yourself.

  4. Great flick!
    Not quite long enough for my taste, but it fits right in with so much of the consensus. Only Oliver Stone’s upcoming movie on Bush can eclipse this marvelous documentary. I can’t explain the lack of publicity either. When you’ve got Bill Moyers and PBS singing your praises you’d think the rest of the country would be onboard. Go figure.

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    My apologies go out to all who were just offended by this hostile, confrontational and completely unreasonable post.

    1. Surprising!
      Wow, I really thought you might take issue with this doco A…kudos to you for putting your biases aside. Even with those pinko commie American-haters Richard Armitage, the Secretary of the Army, numerous ex-CIA agents, and revisiting testimony of hippies like General Shinsenko, you still took the comments at face value and realised that something was rotten in the state of Denmark.

      It’s a real testament to your critical thinking abilities that you didn’t feel the need to act like a troll and take a sarcastic snipe at a very well-made documentary which pointed out some serious problems that occurred in the lead-up to this war…

      Kind regards,
      Greg
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      You monkeys only think you’re running things

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