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Bush's war

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Part 1: 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: 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 distruction -- 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 Secretaty, a new strategy.
Reporter, Jim Gilmore ; narrator, Will Lyman.
From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge. Reveals the defining stories of the "war on terror" in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga will unfold in this special documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.

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SERIES
Frontline (Television program)


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Closed-captioned.

PUBLISHED
[Arlington, VA] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2008]
Year Published: 2008
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0793694434
9780793694433

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kirk, Michael.
Gilmore, Jim.
Lyman, Will.
Kirk Documentary Group.
PBS Video.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

SUBJECTS
Bush, George W. -- 1946-
Iraq War, 2003-
War on Terrorism, 2001-
Politics and war.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq -- 2001-
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.