Bush's war / produced by Michael Kirk ; produced and reported by Jim Gilmore ; written and directed by Michael Kirk ; a Frontline co-production with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH Boston.
"A two-part special series that tells the epic story of how the Iraq War began and how it has been fought, both on the ground and deep inside the government" -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/
| Uniform Title: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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| Language: | English |
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In English.
Closed-captioned. |
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[Arlington, Va.] :
PBS Home Video,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Edition: | Widescreen format. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (262 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other Uniform Title: | Frontline (Television program)
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| Format: | Video DVD |
Contents:
- Part 1 (146 min.): 1. Within hours of the 9/11 attacks
- 2. Preparing the plan of attack
- 3. Cheney's focus: new wartime powers
- 4. The Afghanistan campaign
- 5. Cheney's secret plan for handling detainees
- 6. Iraq is back on the table
- 7. Working in the shadows
- 8. Rumsfeld: hardback infighter
- 9. Rumsfeld takes on the generals and State Dept.
- 10. The drumbeats of war
- 11. Tough new interrogation techniques
- 12. The CIA national intelligence estimate on WMD
- 13. The CIA's flawed intelligence goes public.
- 14. Powell makes the case for war at the U.N.
- 15. The countdown to war
- Part 2 (116 min.): 1. The invasion is over in three weeks
- 2. Plans for Postwar Iraq quickly go awry
- 3. L. Paul Bremer takes over
- 4. Bremer's next edict: dissolve the Iraqi army
- 5. No weapons of mass destruction
- 6. Things are getting bad, fast
- 7. Late 2003 - Spring 2004
- 8. The insurgency rages
- 9. Bush re-elected: Iraqis vote
- 10. 2006: a flickering civil war
- 11. A new Defense Secretary, a new strategy.