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By Charles Ealy |
October 8, 2004 |
"Uncovered: The War on Iraq is an important documentary, making a powerful case against the justifications used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. But Uncovered is far from great filmmaking. It leaps from one talking head to another, without the editing finesse of Fahrenheit 9/11 or Horns and Halos, both of which were highly political yet stylish.
Directed by Robert Greenwald, Uncovered assembles an array of foreign policy specialists, former CIA analysts and other experts to discuss the evidence behind President Bush's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Almost all the interviewees point out flaws in administration thinking, and some explicitly argue that the Bush team made up its mind before looking closely at the evidence.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq is an important documentary, making a powerful case against the justifications used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. But Uncovered is far from great filmmaking. It leaps from one talking head to another, without the editing finesse of Fahrenheit 9/11 or Horns and Halos, both of which were highly political yet stylish.
Directed by Robert Greenwald, Uncovered assembles an array of foreign policy specialists, former CIA analysts and other experts to discuss the evidence behind President Bush's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Almost all the interviewees point out flaws in administration thinking, and some explicitly argue that the Bush team made up its mind before looking closely at the evidence.
Mr. Greenwald, whose previous films include the controversial Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, has a liberal, pacifist agenda, just like Michael Moore, who was hammered for bias in Fahrenheit 9/11. But he has assembled an impressive array of evidence that the war on Iraq was not justified by intelligence reports. These accusations, in fact, have become more common as the war in Iraq drags on and the media begin to investigate the sources that urged the administration to wage a war.
The people who are questioning the administration's evidence in Uncovered have impressive credentials. Among them are David Albright, a physicist and nuclear weapons expert; Robert Baer, a former CIA operative in Iraq and Lebanon; Rand Beers, a former special presidential assistant on terrorism; John Brady Kiesling, a career diplomat; Ray McGovern, another CIA analyst from 1964 to 1990; and Scott Ritter, the U.N.'s top weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998.
A final segment of Uncovered focuses on the question of whether these experts are betraying the U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq by criticizing the war. Not surprisingly, they all argue that it's necessary and patriotic to speak out when you think your nation is on the wrong course.
As you can probably tell, Uncovered is highly political. It's not meant to be entertaining, and it most likely will end up preaching to the choir rather than drawing a diverse audience. But it packs a powerful punch if you're ready for a lesson in foreign policy.
Uncovered will be followed by a 35-minute film, Soldier's Pay, which focuses on the Iraqis and U.S. troops who were involved in the shooting of director David O. Russell's Three Kings, released in 1999."
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