The daily details of the American presence in Iraq are frightening enough: String them together into a comprehensive overview and it unfolds like a horror show. Charles Ferguson's incisive, "the story thus far" documentary covers the first four years in a postwar history that has achieved a kind of classically tragic dimension. It's filled with hubris, miscalculation, willful blindness, betrayal, chaos and dismal failure, and Ferguson tells it all with clear, almost brutal concision.
After a quick summary of efforts made by the Bush White House to draw a link between 9/11 and Iraq — one sufficiently credible to justify a preemptive war — and crucial debates...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
102 mins