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Summary: Some Truth
Review: In response to some of the earlier posted anti-war rhetoric, here are the real facts:"Saddam was a secularist and hated al Qaeda" - as though simultaneous enemies of America have always shared the same ideology. Just ask the Japanese and Germans, or the Chinese and Russians, who agreed to set aside their mutual hatred to fight us for being emissaries of freedom. Under the Clinton administration it was considered standard intelligence dogma that Osama and Saddam worked together; only the controversy over Iraq has post-facto questioned that former pillar of American and European intelligence doctrine - and for entirely political reasons. There was a reason Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas were in Baghdad. And it was the same reason why al Qaeda was working in Kurdistan, why al Zarqawi went to Baghdad to Saddam's doctors, why there is good reason to believe that before the first World Trade Center bombing the culpable terrorists had ties with Iraqi intelligence, and why seized documents now coming to light in Iraq reveal a long history of cooperation between Islamic terrorists and Saddam's secret police. To think otherwise would be crazy, given the shared aims of both in attacking Americans and getting them out of the Middle East. The only puzzle is whether Saddam contributed to the 9/11 terrorist fund or simply was apprised of al Qaeda's general efforts. Thanks VDH.
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Summary: Some Truth
Review: In response to some of the earlier posted anti-war rhetoric, here are the real facts: "Saddam was a secularist and hated al Qaeda" - as though simultaneous enemies of America have always shared the same ideology. Just ask the Japanese and Germans, or the Chinese and Russians, who agreed to set aside their mutual hatred to fight us for being emissaries of freedom. Under the Clinton administration it was considered standard intelligence dogma that Osama and Saddam worked together; only the controversy over Iraq has post-facto questioned that former pillar of American and European intelligence doctrine - and for entirely political reasons. There was a reason Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas were in Baghdad. And it was the same reason why al Qaeda was working in Kurdistan, why al Zarqawi went to Baghdad to Saddam's doctors, why there is good reason to believe that before the first World Trade Center bombing the culpable terrorists had ties with Iraqi intelligence, and why seized documents now coming to light in Iraq reveal a long history of cooperation between Islamic terrorists and Saddam's secret police. To think otherwise would be crazy, given the shared aims of both in attacking Americans and getting them out of the Middle East. The only puzzle is whether Saddam contributed to the 9/11 terrorist fund or simply was apprised of al Qaeda's general efforts. Thanks VDH.
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Summary: The invasion of Iraq - up close and personal
Review: Leading off in this well produced documentary of the war in Iraq, the issues of military force and the legalities of such are examined first. The subject of weapons of mass destruction are touched upon with added debate over reservations of U.S. action by the United Nations security council and foreign nations. This basically sets the tone for what is to come. Moving forward, preparations for war itself and use of military strategies and technology demonstrate the planning and resolve that the United States employed to achieve its mission. CNN and its front line correspondents then place you directly in the action as they report from the virtual center of the conflict traveling with ground forces. Many scenes of battle and conflict are shown to include skirmishes with Iraqi paramilitary forces, encounters with unconventional warfare, military operations in urban terrain (M.O.U.T.), and the effects of the elements on military operations. Following the war itself and the occupation of Baghdad, issues are analyzed as to the uncertainties of U.S. forces remaining in Iraq for an extended period and complications that may result from this. Interviews with analysts, reporters, military personnel, and others offer intriguing points of views and speculation on the often debated subject of American intervention in Iraq. War in Iraq - The Road to Baghdad is no doubt a comprehensive, interesting, and compelling production in and of itself. At just 90 minutes long, it is not all-encompassing but it does stand well on its own in examining the early, middle, and end stages of the entire affair.
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Summary: One sided and anti-American!
Review: Out of a ninety minute show you get eighty minutes of "look what George Bush and our soldiers did to these poor Iraqis". They showed about three seconds of the mass graves and about three minutes on American casualties, no mention of the captured American soldiers who had their body parts mutilated. CNN must have really worshipped Saddam Hussein!
Oh yeah, little quick flashes of REAL war footage between continuous and replayed (to make you think there was more and more) footage of injured Iraqi civilians.
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Summary: One sided and anti-American!
Review: Out of a ninety minute show you get eighty minutes of "look what George Bush and our soldiers did to these poor Iraqis". They showed about three seconds of the mass graves and about three minutes on American casualties, no mention of the captured American soldiers who had their body parts mutilated. CNN must have really worshipped Saddam Hussein!
Oh yeah, little quick flashes of REAL war footage between continuous and replayed (to make you think there was more and more) footage of injured Iraqi civilians.
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Summary: The Story as It Unfolded
Review: This is the definitive account of the removal of an dictator and the struggles of the coalition of the willing to free the people of Iraq.An outstanding piece with one of the highest production values I have seen, A must own DVD.
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Summary: god help me...I'm defending CNN
Review: This review is just as much response to the one-star reviews as it is my own personal review. First of all, I would consider this to be a very neutral look at the war. Since the two main reasons for going to war (WMD & Al Qaeda) have been disproven, this release can only be seen as a neutral look strictly at the military aspects of the war. I'm not sure what the right-wingers and fox viewers were expecting, but the DVD shows that the U.S. military had a more or less easy go of it in Iraq. If all the release is supposed to do is look at the military aspect of the war, then this dvd does that. It is one-sided and comes from only an American perspective, but it covered what it was supposed to. For those of you who think CNN is "liberal," I would say that just because CNN would seem to favor Democrats (in a less extreme version of how fox favors Republicans) does not make them "liberal." Democrats have been a lot of things the last 25 years...cowardly, accomodating, and spineless...but "liberal" is certainly not a label the Democrats can wear these days. And for my friend that complained about all the footage of injured or dead Iraqis: Just because you'd rather not hear about them (for whatever reason) does not mean they cease to exist.
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Summary: god help me...I'm defending CNN
Review: This review is just as much response to the one-star reviews as it is my own personal review. First of all, I would consider this to be a very neutral look at the war. Since the two main reasons for going to war (WMD & Al Qaeda) have been disproven, this release can only be seen as a neutral look strictly at the military aspects of the war. I'm not sure what the right-wingers and fox viewers were expecting, but the DVD shows that the U.S. military had a more or less easy go of it in Iraq. If all the release is supposed to do is look at the military aspect of the war, then this dvd does that. It is one-sided and comes from only an American perspective, but it covered what it was supposed to. For those of you who think CNN is "liberal," I would say that just because CNN would seem to favor Democrats (in a less extreme version of how fox favors Republicans) does not make them "liberal." Democrats have been a lot of things the last 25 years...cowardly, accomodating, and spineless...but "liberal" is certainly not a label the Democrats can wear these days. And for my friend that complained about all the footage of injured or dead Iraqis: Just because you'd rather not hear about them (for whatever reason) does not mean they cease to exist.
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Summary: Boring
Review: This vido did not really show any footage, it was mostly jounalist, talking. I was looking for something with alot of footage, but this was not it.
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