PBS/FRONTLINE: Invasion of Iraq

PBS/FRONTLINE ^ | 02/26/04 9pm | PBS/FRONTLINE

[FilmCutter]

Press release for my latest editing effort. I hope you all can watch. Some good battle scenes and wonderful Rumsfeld moments.

I hope you all get a chance to watch tonight at 9pm on PBS (check local listings)

[ChadGore]

Re: As the first anniversary of the war in Iraq approaches

I like the sound of that.

[MEG33]

"Occupation we are mired in"..is that like quag"mired" in?I would love the progtam if they have the good things spotlighted and not the just the "mired".

[Naspino]

Thanks for the notice, but watching Frontline is never an easy proposition.

[UB355]

Thanks for the heads up

[wolficatZ]

PBS 8 Feb 26 09:00pm  Add to My Calendar
Series/Documentary, 120 Mins.

"The Invasion of Iraq", Episode #2209.
An investigation recounts strategies, battles and turning points of the war in Iraq.

Original Airdate: February 26, 2004.

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Future Airings:

Frontline, KAET Feb 27 12:00am
Frontline, KAET Mar 04 09:00pm
Frontline, KAET Mar 05 12:00am

[saquin]

Just be thankful you're not in Germany to watch this program.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story823.shtml

"German broadcaster NDR will air a TV documentary this Thursday that investigates two video clips of US military action in Iraq that have been widely circulated on the web.

Both clips show US soldiers shooting apparently unarmed and injured Iraqis. According to military and legal experts interviewed by the Panorama programme, they show US troops breaking international law by shooting unarmed people.

As reported by this site on 14 January, a video of footage from a US Apache helicopter had been widely circulated on the web following its broadcast on ABC News. Aerial footage shows Iraqis apparently abandoning something - which soldiers assumed to be a weapon - and running for cover.

Soldiers receive instructions to 'shoot it' and kill all three men, including one wounded person already lying on the ground.

A second incident was recorded in April 2003 by a CNN crew and broadcast in October that year. Soldiers are seen shooting unarmed and seriously injured Iraqis during a search of an industrial area. Immediately after the shooting, one soldier describes the situation as 'awesome' and says he 'wants to do it all over again'.

During the Panorama documentary, US Viet Nam veteran General Robert G Gard, describes both events as 'inexcusable murders'. Professor Stefan Oeter, an expert in international law, confirms that the shooting of a wounded person is a war crime.

Panorama producer Volker Steinhoff began investigating the two stories after an email tip from a colleague.

"Without the internet, I might not have done the story since watching the video is the central argument for the story."

Mr Steinhoff told dotJournalism he was surprised that neither story had been pursued by the mainstream media.

"It's my impression that CNN and ABC deliberately hid the story - ABC never mentioned the crucial point. The US mainstream media have been extremely unco-operative.

"This issue of shooting wounded people - a possible war crime - hasn't had enough public attention either in Germany or the US."

The programme will be broadcast on German channel ARD at 20.15, central European time, on 26 February.

The full transcript of the Panorama documentary will be available online from noon on 27 February and the two video files will be on the ARD site for Friday only, subject to final permission from CNN.

The US Ministry of Defence has refused to comment on the Panorama investigation."

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[TSgt]

Frontline did a magnificent job with "The Farmer's Wife."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/farmerswife/

I need to get that on tape.

[mil-vet]

... to control the massive looting ...

Eyewitness accounts tell a different story - only the media tells of "massive looting" - in actuality, according to observers other than media, there was less looting than in Los Angeles during their famous riots!

PBS is run by Liberal Socialist Pondscum (LSP), and it is necessary to put anything seen or heard on any PBS station through a very stringent LSP filter......

[BushMeister]

I'll watch this for the war footage and interviews with combatants, not the political insights of Messrs. Goldberg and Sanders.

[Dilbert56]

Right the helicopter should have taken them prisoner - oh wait - can't. Well then they should just let them live to kill us another day. I don't think the same rules that apply to uniformed soldiers in military combat can be used against suicidal terrorists. And....
I really don't want any lectures on human rights from Germany. Not at least until they can go a century w/o A) starting a world war and b) committing genocide.

[mylife]

Airing now in Dallas

[mylife]

Bump for Filmcutters latest work

[DoctorMichael]

Logging off to watch.........yea, I know. It's PBS.

Bttt

[dr_who_2]

Yep, I guess we lost that war. Those Iraqis were too clever for us, our armed forces weren't ready, our political leadership didn't know what it was talking about, we didn't have enough troops on the ground, we should have listened to Shinseki, blah, blah, blah.... This is an election year, and the Democrats want back in power. Don't expect objective reporting from PBS.

[TADSLOS]

Yep, another PBS hit piece on Bush. Predictable.

[Naspino]

This is an election year, and the Democrats want back in power. Don't expect objective reporting from PBS.

I didn't expect it and I didn't get it. Its an absolute BARF piece, consumed more with the lives of Iraqis too stupid to get out of the way of an American advance than the American's themselves.

[dalebert]

Don't watch PBS.

[Steven W.]

Sorry but I saw this Frontline and it was absolutely horrid & biased - basically a condensed version of "everything that went wrong in the war" with Tom Ricks and other of the biggest fools in the Pentagon correspondents pool.