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"Blow-by-blow debunking by experts of the Bush administration's case for war. Documentary with Ray McGovern, Stansfield Turner, John Dean, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. Directed by Robert Greenwald. At the Sutton and the Angelika, Manhattan.

No one will ever mistake director Robert Greenwald for Orson Welles. But then, no one ever mistook the Pentagon Papers for Marcel Proust.

It may be uncinematic, it may be talky and it may be a tad technical, but "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" is about as damning a document as one could imagine about the "rationalization and justification" for the ongoing quagmire in that unfortunate Middle Eastern country.

Blow-by-blow debunking by experts of the Bush administration's case for war. Documentary with Ray McGovern, Stansfield Turner, John Dean, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. Directed by Robert Greenwald. At the Sutton and the Angelika, Manhattan.

No one will ever mistake director Robert Greenwald for Orson Welles. But then, no one ever mistook the Pentagon Papers for Marcel Proust.

It may be uncinematic, it may be talky and it may be a tad technical, but "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" is about as damning a document as one could imagine about the "rationalization and justification" for the ongoing quagmire in that unfortunate Middle Eastern country. Unlike Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Uncovered" doesn't strain to make George W. Bush look inept or Colin Powell look disingenuous or Dick Cheney look like the Antichrist. He lets them do it themselves, through their public statements and the counterarguments he presents via a Murderers' Row of espionage, military and security experts - mostly ex-CIA and all of the opinion that the public trust has been violated.

Having already had a life on DVD via Internet sales, "Uncovered" is clearly being released in theaters now to coincide with the presidential campaign. Pro-administration audiences (if there are any for this film) will argue that the voices heard in Greenwald's film are partisan, and they may be right - Joseph Wilson, for instance, has no love for the Bush people, given the way his CIA agent wife's cover was blown; former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke, some will say, has a book to sell.

But the real agenda among all the ex-CIA agents seen in the film is what they see as the way the agency has been corrupted - having to use intelligence to argue for war, and having its now-former director, George Tenet, made "a member of the team," thus erasing the CIA's political independence.

"It is somewhat puzzling," says UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, "that you can have 100 percent certainty about the existence of weapons of mass destruction and zero percent certainty about where they are." "Uncovered" asks a lot of questions. That's just one of them."

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