FRONTLINE
Bush's War
9/11 and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, WMD and the Insurgency, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and the Surge. For six years, FRONTLINE has been revealing those stories in meticulous detail, and the political dramas played out at the highest levels — George W. Bush and Tony Blair, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, Osama Bin Laden. 

Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga will unfold in a special four-hour broadcast over two consecutive nights on PBS, titled "Bush's War." 

Drawing on one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism, veteran producer Michael Kirk also delivers new reporting and fresh interviews. "Bush’s War" is the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation’s history. 

“Parts of this history have been told before — the invasion of Afghanistan, torture, flawed intelligence and the invasion of Iraq, failures in the American occupation, and the saber-rattling over Iran,” Kirk says, “But no one has laid out the entire narrative to reveal in one epic story, the scope and detail of how this war began and how it has been fought, both on the ground and deep inside the government.”

five years
1825 days

3 die every 24 hours

husbands - daughters
sons - mothers

6 times as many wounded
missing limbs
broken spirits
splintered souls

this intentional war
unnecessary
illegal

the men and women serving
a hero each
bring them home
now

barbara kinney photos
joan armatrading sings

peace out peeps