On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:25:33 +0200, Cuan <an@nymous.co.za> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:01:22 -0400, "Marvin The Paranoid Android"
<marvin@galaxy.com> wrote:

God Forbid the Chimp from taking a second term.

Bush probably sponsored the documentary to profit from royalties. It
sounds like something a neocon would do - capitalising on their own
negative publicity. Wouldn't be surprised if he staged the war to
inspire an Oscar-nominated film, with him in it! That would really
make Jeb jealous.

Hillbilly logic ... go figure. C'mon Granny! Jethro! We're going to the
ceement pond!

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Film Review: 'Uncovered: the War on Iraq'
Sun Aug 22, 2004 05:55 PM ET

By Frank Scheck

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A highly impressive array of talking
heads
deliver vivid counterarguments to the Bush administration's rationales
for
the war in Iraq in Robert Greenwald's documentary, the latest in a
seemingly endless spate of politically themed films being released in
conjunction with the campaign season.

Expanded for this theatrical release, via Cinema Libre Distribution,
from
the 50-minute version previously released on DVD, "Uncovered: The War on
Iraq" provides compelling arguments that even those on the right wing of
the political spectrum will be hard pressed to entirely refute.

Eschewing narration and excessive histrionics in its presentation, the
film is essentially a series of filmed testimonies from a large number
of
experts representing the military, diplomatic and intelligence fields,
interspersed with news footage recapping the administration's buildup to
the war.

The film begins with the interview subjects stating their names and
credentials, and the sheer breadth and volume of them is quite
overwhelming. They include Stansfield Turner, former head of the CIA;
Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee; Joseph Wilson, the former diplomat who blew the whistle on
the
false assertion regarding Iraq's purchasing uranium from Niger; Ray
McGovern, a top CIA analyst for nearly three decades; Scott Ritter, the
former top U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq; David Kay, who was
subsequently
appointed by Bush to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and
many, many others.

These figures, representing a broad swath in terms of philosophies and
politics, deliver damning refutations of the Bush team's assertions,
which
are, naturally, edited for maximum effect. While the arguments obviously
will be digested differently according to the viewer's preconceived
notions, the impressive credentials of the witnesses, most of them
former
insiders rather than mere pontificators, give their arguments an
undeniable credibility.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter