MetaFilter posts tagged with Frontline and Iraq

Rumsfeld's War

stbalbach — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:12:40 -0800

Frontline: Rumsfeld's War, a PBS/Washington Post joint documentary that aired earlier this week is now online. It is the inside story of Rumsfeld's battle to assert civil control over the military.

Frontline in Iraq

mathowie — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:41:15 -0800

The popular PBS series Frontline has done a couple investigative reports on Iraq, but for their next one they are doing something interesting: live ~~dispatches~~ blogging from Baghdad throughout the next few weeks as they film and conduct interviews. The finished show is set to air next month.

The War Behind Closed Doors

insomnia_lj — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:51:43 -0800

The War Behind Closed Doors PBS' newest "Frontline" focuses on what has been happening behind the scenes within the Bush administration during the buildup to war against Iraq. Wolfowitz is seen as supporting a policy of US preemptive wars starting in 1992 and urging a US invasion of Iraq just four days after 9/11, Richard Perle says that "it was understood that Iraq had to be dealt with" in the earliest days of the Bush presidential campaign, and Colin Powell is shown as the only reason the US sought UN approval at all.

Deep, way deep, inside Iraq

subpixel — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:13:58 -0800

Deep, way deep inside Iraq This aired very recently on PBS but I just caught it online -- the link is the second of four video clips following U.K. journalist Sam Kiley reporting on perception and reality in Jordan and Iraq and contains the most horrific footage of Saddam supporters you're likely to ever see. Be warned, it's not pretty.