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

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Sorry, Karen, didn't catch either Part 1 or 2. But I'll join the discussion by saying thanks for the summary and also that it drives me NUTS how quickly focus turns (Iraq, Lebanon) from the immorality/illegality of the attack/attackers to a football game mindset: how things are going, who's winning (are there any winners in war?), what the strategy is -- or needs to be -- in order to win, etc. Sorry that PBS's Bush's War is just more of the same in that respect when it could and should have been so much more.
   --Jenifer   

Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  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
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