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Bush's War: PBS/FRONTLINE
PBS/FRONTLINE ^ | 3/24/08 | FRONTLINE

Posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:29 AM PDT by FilmCutter

Bush's War Monday, March 24 and Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9 P.M. (check local listings) From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge-for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War, airing Monday, March 24, from 9 to 11:30 P.M. and Tuesday, March 25, 2008, from 9 to 11 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings). Veteran producer Michael Kirk (The Torture Question, The Dark Side) draws on one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism--more than 40 FRONTLINE reports on the war on terror. Combined with fresh reporting and new interviews, Bush's War will be the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history.

Following the broadcast,Bush's War comes alive online with free streaming video of the entire documentary and more than 100 video highlights of pivotal moments since 9/11. Watch a preview now at pbs.org/frontline/bushswar.


TOPICS: Announcements; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abughraib; armitage; bushswar; cia; clarke; cordesman; frontline; iraq; joewilson; kirk; michaelkirk; michaelratner; mikekirk; nigerflap; paulpillar; pbs; pillar; ratner; richardarmitage; richardclarke; sixteenwords; wilson
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I was the editor on this project and I can tell you that we gave it all we had to make sure it would stand the test of time. I hope you all watch, and if it applies, enjoy the program.

your humble conservative editor.

1 posted on 03/24/2008 9:40:29 AM PDT by FilmCutter
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To: FilmCutter

Then why was it called “Bush’s War?” That’s a rather *loaded* term that automatically implies bias.


2 posted on 03/24/2008 9:43:53 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: FilmCutter

Are you saying this is not a work that is meant to be destructive of the Bush administration?


3 posted on 03/24/2008 9:44:00 AM PDT by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: FilmCutter
We'll be keeping an eye on this....


4 posted on 03/24/2008 9:45:55 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.)
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To: bolobaby

Agreed, it is this type of bias as if this is a personal war of the President and not the country with any stakes in the matter for the latter.

And that’s certainly not the case.


5 posted on 03/24/2008 9:46:35 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: bolobaby
My impression exactly.
6 posted on 03/24/2008 9:47:59 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: bolobaby

Liberal BDS caused the Iraq war to last longer then it needed. How do those liberals square that one?


7 posted on 03/24/2008 9:48:34 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Obama tried to Stamp out MLK's Dream when he denied Janice Rogers Brown appointment.)
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To: bolobaby

My first impression as well.


8 posted on 03/24/2008 9:48:41 AM PDT by clintonh8r (An Obamanation would be an abomination...."A typical white person.")
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To: FilmCutter

I’ll miss it.

It’s on PBS — Public Bullsh!t System.


9 posted on 03/24/2008 9:48:49 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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"I was the editor on this project"

What's with the title? This is America's war. It's western civilization's war.


10 posted on 03/24/2008 9:48:57 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Something tells me the program won’t address that....


11 posted on 03/24/2008 9:49:35 AM PDT by clintonh8r (An Obamanation would be an abomination...."A typical white person.")
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To: FilmCutter
"I was the editor on this project and I can tell you that we gave it all we had to make sure it would stand the test of time. I hope you all watch, and if it applies, enjoy the program."

You left the following out and it's not Bush's War. It's Saddam's War. Saddam never once honored the 1991 surrender agreement (UNSCR 687) which included the complete verification of disarmament. And you left out that it is US Law to overthrow the Saddam Regime as signed into US law by then President Clinton under the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.

"CLINTON: Good evening.

Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.

The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world.

The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people."


President Clinton
Oval Office Address to the American People
December 16, 1998

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html

12 posted on 03/24/2008 9:50:06 AM PDT by avacado (Thomas Sowell: "Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.")
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To: bolobaby

Surely you’ve heard of Wilson’s War, Roosevelt’s War, Truman’s War, Kennedy’s War, and Clinton’s War!


13 posted on 03/24/2008 9:50:08 AM PDT by Menehune56 (Oderint Dum Metuant (Let them hate, so long as they fear - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)))
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To: FilmCutter

Bush’s war?

http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv


14 posted on 03/24/2008 9:50:17 AM PDT by Nascar Dad (www.AntiMicrobialProduct.com)
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To: romanesq

Obama has called it Bush’s war too is that the kind of Bi-partisanship he is preaching? As indicated by his pastor, I think what Obama means by his healing the Bi-partisan divide in D.C. is going to go something like this. I am left of center, liberal progressive, I will frame the debate on an issue using that ideology. If you do not agree with me then you will be labled divisive, racist, bigotted, typical White, Christian Conservatives....

Thats how I shut down free speech.


15 posted on 03/24/2008 9:51:18 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Obama tried to Stamp out MLK's Dream when he denied Janice Rogers Brown appointment.)
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To: Hey you!

"the truth about WMD"

Why don't you tell us what you claim that truth to be?


16 posted on 03/24/2008 9:51:51 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: FilmCutter

PBS should have been defunded and cut loose many years ago.


17 posted on 03/24/2008 9:52:39 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bolobaby

You should hear the radio promos for this on Boston radio. From the audio clips they are playing in the promo, it certainly sounds extremely biased. One of the quips has some man saying that “(Bush) highjacked congress and like a hijacked airplane you can’t control where it goes...”


18 posted on 03/24/2008 9:53:36 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Typical_Whitey

Sounds like “filmcutter” hit and ran...


19 posted on 03/24/2008 9:53:42 AM PDT by nikos1121 (typical white person)
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To: FilmCutter
Joanne Ostrow of the Denver Post highly recommended watching this. Therefore I shall not.

And I'll just presume you didn't know the title would be 'Bush's War', when you agreed to work on it.

20 posted on 03/24/2008 9:53:52 AM PDT by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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