Robert Greenwald's documentary deconstructs the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq through interviews with U.S intelligence and defense officials, foreign service experts, and U.N. weapons inspectors.
Greenwald offers no new earthshaking revelations (much if not all of what's covered here has already been reported in the mainstream press) but the catalogue of newsclips and commentary from a team of intelligence analysts and operatives, diplomats, weapons inspectors, politicians and journalists, strongly support what critics of the Bush administration's unilateral Iraq policy have claimed all along: The justification offered for the preemptive strike against former Iraqi president Sadaam Hussein was largely based on disreputable intelligence, distortions and blatant untruths.
Rather than attempt a sweeping indictment of the Bush administration and all that it stands for, Mr. Greenwald focuses on a simple, demonstrable point: that the war in Iraq was sold to Congress and the American public through a coordinated series of public misstatements that at best look like wishful thinking and at worst like outright deception.
This movie is available on DVD/Video