Bush's war [dvd] / 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.
Narrator, Will Lyman. First broadcast as episodes of the television program Frontline on Mar. 24, 2008 & Mar. 25, 2008. "Enhanced for 16x9 televisions" -- Container.
Contents:
pt. 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 -- pt. 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.
Summary:
"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/
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.