Shock and Awe (2017)
10/10
A MUST WATCH
19 August 2022
REVIEW - SHOCK AND AWE

17 years troops engaged in the area, most recently against ISIS.

$2 Trillion the cost.

Over 36,000 American troops killed or wounded.

1 million Iraqis killed or wounded.

0 weapons of mass destruction found!

0 politicians held accountable!

Trade Center is destroyed by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization.

In the resulting turmoil, the reporters of the Knight-Ridder news service, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel under the editorship of John Walcott, hear odd reports that President Bush's senior administration is not so much concerned with finding the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, as they are in blaming the secular dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.

Despite their intelligence sources saying that Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.

The reporters discover that the White House is obsessed with finding any excuse to attack Iraq with cherry-picking intelligence reports and blatant lies by its officials. As the journalists dig deeper, their competitors uncritically repeat the Bush Administration's falsehoods that too much of the public is gullible enough to believe, making their quest to find and print the truth proves as a frustrating struggle as events barrel to a needless war.

What was predicted happened, after the American troops finally left the area was left destabalised leaving Bin Laden to gain power and the development of ISIS resulting in further conflict.

The cherry picking of intelligence and ignorance of fact causing unimaginable loss of life.

0 weapons of mass destruction found!

0 politicians held accountable!

Rating 10 out of 10.
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