[Peace-discuss] Bush's War on PBS -- Part I

[Karen Medina]

I was hoping to spark some heated conversation about PBS Frontline's "Bush's War", but it is a busy and sad week for peace and justice activists here.

So, I'll start some of the criticism of the show. 
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

The Frontline documentary has some really major flaws. Repeatedly it states that the US did not have enough troops in Iraq. While it does show how Bush and Cheney were bent on invading Iraq to the point that they falsified reports and propogated rumors before the invasion, "Bush's War" repeatedly states "but there were not enough troops in Iraq". 

Part I concentrates far too much on the discord between Rumsfeld and Condi Rice. And how the invasion led to friendships breaking up. 

Of all the interviews, why didn't they interview Iraqis?

The entire first show is US-Administrative-Branch-centric.

I did not get a chance to see the second part yet. 

The only part that I thought "Bush's War" did well was the discussion of how the Administration explicitly approved torture of detainees.    

-karen medina