Posted by jimski2 at 3/26/08 4:50 a.m.

Why, oh why, has it taken so long for the media to come out with this story? And it is hidden during prime time viewing hours????????

Posted by Sagegreen at 3/26/08 10:07 a.m.

The media is getting a second chance to salvage their collective reputations as journalists. The same "winning formula" is being recycled to launch an illegal war in Iran.

Posted by Miyagi-Hawk at 3/26/08 11:45 a.m.

Be outraged all you want, unless you've lost someone or served over there, you're just exercising your arrogance.

Posted by Sagegreen at 3/26/08 12:16 p.m.

I lost someone very dear to me 39 years ago in Vietnam. Is that qualification enough to be be outraged at a senseless war and the build-up to a second one?

Posted by Gary Vee at 3/26/08 1:00 p.m.

After watching the first episode Monday night, I was surprised there wasn't much chatter on the web about this excellent Frontline program. It was extremely well done and flowed amazingly well given the 2 lengthy segments. Check it out online if you missed it at pbs.org.

I confess, I was aware of most of the information presented, but the additional details further fueled my anger.

Posted by Will in Seattle at 3/26/08 3:48 p.m.

This is a way overdue PBS show.

I've enjoyed the parts of it I've seen.

Posted by luckyb at 3/26/08 4:47 p.m.

This PBS program was excellent. But, I must say, all this information has been in the public domain for years. It simply takes someone interested enough to seek it out.
This is where Americans have failed their country. They have refused to become informed. Therefore, they have been led down the garden path by simply believing the narrative propagated by this Administration.
This refusal to become informed, this refusal to nurture a healthy scepticism of our leaders (no matter the political party), this laziness has resulted in incalculable losses.
On the other hand, as the debacle has unfolded the American People have responded with a visceral repulsion and are now demanding CHANGE. I can only credit this to their elementary school education when they were taught that we did not instigate wars of aggression, we did not torture, and we deserved to take pride in ourselves. The American people can no longer recognize themselves and are
rousing themselves to watch programs such as this and are turning out in droves to vote for anyone but a Republican. All is not lost at all.
But, I hope to high Heaven that adults all over this country will begin to keep themselves informed and teach their children to do so also. Citizens in the richest country the world has ever known don't have many civic responsibilities but there are two responsibilites that can keep this country enduring: 1. inform themselves and 2. vote.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/26/08 10:59 p.m.

I'm watching this show right now. So far it's a way better story than the total BS the media has fed us thus far. I doubt it's the truth, though.

Those towers came down through controlled demolition - they were designed to withstand even a plane crash. They started dissolving from the top when the planes actually hit the tower well below the top. Also, building 7 came down when it was not hit by a plane.
The images that show the attack on the Pentagon are a joke - nothing can be seen and one cannot tell whether the building was hit by a plane or a missile. The tapes that recorded the site from hotels nearby were all confiscated.

I have a hard time believing that a guy in a cave would be so successful with an attack on the most powerful country in the world (a country with a military that is about as big as the rest of the world armies put together - if not bigger).

I do not trust any of the guys in the Frontline video, but I'll try to keep an open mind.

Posted by NorthEndDad at 3/27/08 7:13 p.m.

Ah, the Iraq war, the biggest US foreign policy fiasco in at least a hundred years.

Let's see now:
We were attacked on 9-11, so we invaded a country where our attackers were not to be found, and we knew it.
We have succeeded in making Iran the dominant regime in the region, esxactly what we did not want to do.
We spend billions to create the perfect recruitment poster for Al-Queda.
We are not taking care of our wounded heroes, the most dishonorable thing of all. We throw them out of the military when they act out from their PTSD. Patty Murray is right: the Bush administration has low-balled the true cost of this war from its beginning. Our ravaged economy. All those horribly disabled veterans who survived wounds previously too grievous to survive. Our ruined international reputation.
Oh, the true costs will haunt us for decades.

It is time to wake up, America. The Republican presidential candidate clearly will keep us there for a long, long time - at least Senator McCain is honest about it.

Is this really what we want for our great nation?

Posted by snocoguy at 3/28/08 7:07 a.m.

Oh, yeah, PBS, that "bastion of liberalism." Of course what PBS and Frontline did made sense, but to the "right" it's nothing more than a bunch of lies made up and put forth by the "left." Nothing spells "Republican" like "F-U-L-L O-F @-$-#-&."

Posted by unregistered user at 3/30/08 9:08 a.m.

Logically (?) the USA knows the Iraq war is wrong but we want oil so we go after it from Iraq..same as the stealng of "America" and all its resources from the original natives of this land. Wherever there is economic gain, that is what America goes to war for and secondly for protection of the democratic (capitalistic) society. There are no economic resources gain in Afghanistan so that country does not get the full "Bush" treatment...obvious conclusion is the almighty $$ dictates USA policies. Whether Democratic/Republican/Libertarian/Green Party, politics, protection and gaining of capital economics are the rules and therefore democracy gets a black eye. We are not nice guys. Why else are wars fought?