BUSH'S WAR (FRONTLINE)

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Plot: From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise ol an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge—for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed 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.; Now, 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. Combined with fresh reporting and new interviews. BUSH'S WAR examines that war-beginning with the quick American victory in Iraq, the early mistakes that were made, and then recounting the story of how chaos, tooting and violence quickly engulfed the country.; FRONTLINE asks what Bush will leave for a new U.S. president both in Iraq and in the; larger 'war on terror.'
• Cast: Richard Armitage, Rick Baccus, Dan Balz, James Bamford, Daniel Benjamin, Bradford Berenson, Gary Berntsen, J. Cofer Black, Tony Blair, John Bolton, Richard Boucher, John O. Brennan, Francis Brooke, Elisabeth Bumiller, George W. Bush, Vincent Cannistraro, Ahmad Chalabi, Dick Cheney, Richard Clarke, Jack Cloonan, Steve Coll, Anthony H. Cordesman, Mark Danner, Dominique De Villepin, Michael Delong, Karen DeYoung, Tyler Drumheller, James Fallows, Dexter Filkins, Carl W. Ford Jr., David Frum, Marc Garlasco, Barton Gellman, Jack Goldsmith, Melvin Goodman, Michael B. Gordon, Bob Graham, Jeremy Greenstock, Thomas M. Gross, John Hambre, Peter Haydu, Michael Isikoff, Mark Jacobson, Tony Judt, David Kay, Jack Keane, Paul Kern, Richard Kerr, Leïth Koubba, Andrew Krepinevich, William Kristol, Patrick Lang, Carl Levin, Eric Lewis, Will Lyman, Douglas Macgregor, Kanan Makiya, F. Michael Maloof, James Mann, Jane Mayer, John McLaughlin, Christopher Meyer, Nabil Musawi, Richard Perle, Paul Pillar, Kenneth Pollack, Colin Powell, Dana Priest, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Todd Purdum, Michael Ratner, Condoleezza Rice, Thomas Ricks, James Risen, Tom Rosenstiel, Dennis Ross, Donald Rumsfeld, Michael Scheuer, Gary Schroen, Eric Shinseki, Martin Smith, Ron Suskind, Charles Swift, William Howard Taft IV, Evan Thomas, David Toomey, Edward Walker Jr., Thomas White, Lawrence Wilkerson, Joseph Wilson, Paul Wolfowitz, Bob Woodward, John Yoo, Michael Kirk
• Director: Michael Kirk
• Runtime: 4:30
• Company: PBS Home Video
• Media Format: Series