This film begs a fundamental question only future historians will have any hope of addressing if mankind is lucky enough to survive its propensity for lemming minded emotional immaturity. If not, then I suppose that job will fall to archeologists archeologists : How does the most powerful, affluent country on the planet elect a government so grossly inept in matters of foreign policy that they could wear as a badge of "patriotism" their complete lack of "respect" for the social and cultural diversity of societies thousands of years in the making? How could this same government wage war in a country anthropologists have come to recognize as the birthplace of humanity, allow its citizenry to tear itself to pieces, allow its social infrastructure to completely disintegrate, watch its most priceless archeological treasures get stolen or destroyed and then smuggly claim they are the defenders of "democracy" and "freedom"? -- Then again, Iraq is literally floating on a sea of oil just a mile or 2 below and living in a world where corporations exercise just as much, if not more power in determining forign policy matters. Most of the oil might well be gone by then but archeologists will certainly have their share of bones to sift through for answers..

To those who think this is some hashed up "liberal" propaganda conjured up by the Hollywood left I suggest you find some good hard evidence to refute all this... or join, in the post-Bush era, those individuals who would petition their government to hold these people accountable for their actions. Every one of them! We are going to need some closure to this tragedy after it's all over, and not after the conspirators in the executive office have passed on. Almost 2 trillion wasted on this debacle. We could have paid Hussein 1/200th of that money to leave office peacefully and fly off into exile. A damn shame, really.

Tex, The reason why it looks like it was exactly the plan it's because it was! Why do you think we have a President who is the son of an arm bandit (Iran Contra) who has high stakes in a company which deals greatly in Aerospace & Defense (The Carlyle Group), and the other is the almighty secret chief of a company who's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical products and services for oil and gas exploration and production (Halliburton) OH! wait! I almost forgot the head of the Pentagon who recently retired was founder of PNAC: The PNAC's stated goal is to promote America's dominance globally. So if you add up all of them together... what do you have a group of global terrorists whose primary goal is dominance and power over other nations for oil and arms profit. Why do you think their eyes are so set on Iran? Look at any pipeline map of the region and you'll get your answer... More oil, more war, more profit. The plan was to overthrow Saddam, get the oil and keep the country in chaos as long a possible so that they can make all the deals: arms and no-bid contracts with companies they have shares in!!! And no one is stopping these modern bandits!!

The saddest thing is that they had people who knew better, who could get the job done, and they were all silenced and ignored.

A very sobering doc.
What troubles me is that while the high ranking officials interviewed point out that there was no planning for the post invation occupation of Irak, it implicitly suggests that that was exactly the plan, but why? Was creating chaos in Irak just the thing they wanted to justify a permanent occupation? Do these neo cons have a soul at all?

lol
'billy' is clearly a wind-up.

well billy is a total moron!!!!!!!..... Why do people like that exist.....just pure mindless idiots.....

Well it seems as if it is true! People don’t get it, where else can we have an open RND military campaign? Policing practices can be refined there. If rule history holds true advancements in technology come through war. It all started there when it was Mesopotamian. If this opportunity is not had we shall suffer the consequences of religious fundamentalism. Never in the history of the world has a vacuum been available. Do it now or face it later. Try being pragmatic about it.

Non-Thinking like yours and Bush is what will destroy this country... Well, along with McDonalds, Plastic and Soda...

All muslims are terrorists. this has been proven by bush. I will not watch this clinton propaganda. Fck bin layden. USA hell yeah!!!