Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11450 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-03-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

AL FRANKEN
"It's one thing for a President to lie about his sex life. It's another to lie about why we are sending our young men and women into battle."

ERROL MORRIS - Filmmaker - The Fog of War
"On a daily basis we, the American public, are exposed to unending administration insanities: fear mongering, the reduction of foreign policy to a bad video game, an exhausting audio-visual parade of lies and self-deceptions. Robert Greenwald's film is a welcome antidote. It sets an example of what a concerned and committed citizen can do. Speak truth to power.

KATRINA VAN DEN HEUVEL editor of The Nation
"The film is a compelling call to action in 2004 and must-see viewing for all citizens who care about changing the direction of our security policy, and our country's leadership."

Customer Reviews

Not the Truth and Whole Truth
Greenwald does an excellent job of helping the CIA cover their tracks. He puts together a lot of how's as to US military involvement in Iraq, but it doesn't get into more whys, and it doesn't uncover much of the darker reasons. It doesn't cover anything about Iranian/US/European/Russian relations, Iranian interests throughout the region, Saudi/US/European relations, nothing about China's subtle influences, not much about non-state actors (he does a different expose of mostly one, KBR, in another work of his...
The topic of Israel's existence and my opinion notwithstanding, the preservation of the State of Israel may be the number one reason coalition forces are in Iraq, and access to oil for Europe number 2 since they rely on Middle Eastern oil about 3 times more than the US. Since these topics aren't covered very much, Greenwalds works don't really shed much light on what we don't already know. It's put together pretty well, though. I mean, I have a friend whose little brother is a senior at a small town high school that does videos about as well as this. It probably took more time getting that huge cast (way over the top-he protesteth too much) of credible folks to cover up for the CIA and UN weapons inspectors. Maybe those guys should have made their voices more loudly and clearly heard when the Bush team was making it's pitch for war in Iraq...before those hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed, millions displaced, and so many US military lives have been lost to date (and as of the posting of this, we're still not out). Nice timing.

Stunning, sad, upsetting, honest, shocking
There is nothing I can say that the other 4 and 5 star reviews have not already said.
This documentary interviews the actual people who were in the U.N. weapons inspections and counter proliferation teams. The people that actually went into Iraq and checked for WMDs. Listen to what they have to say and prepare to be disgusted by the administration of King George.

Blow's Michael Moore's stint under the water
This film entails all the facts which still for a large part, elude the American people about the leadup to the Iraq War. Michael's Moore's populist tirades and appeal to pacifism in his Farenheit 9/11 film are merely a distraction from the hard cold lies that the Bush administration told, which are the main reason we should remain outraged. . This film is a case for impeachment, though the opportunity for that case has perhaps been passed. But it's never too late to get history straight.