DVD: Rush To War - Between Iraq & A Hard Place
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including former senator George McGovern, former ambassadors Joe Wilson and Peter Tomsen, Samantha Power (Harvard U.),
Zia Mian (Princenton U.), Thomas Goutteierre (U. of Nebraska), Mark Danner (U. of California), nationally-syndicated columnists Robert Scheer, the late Molly Ivins, and Chris Hedges. The film also includes commentaries from former ambassador Je Wilson (husband of outed CIA perative Valerie Plame), Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, former Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, former General Anthony Zinni, former Terrorism Czar Richard Clark, and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Among the issues explored are:
the Cold War and CIA interventions around the world from the 1950's through the 1970's, U.S. involvemnet with the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union in the 1980's, amd the history of the U.S.'s two wars against Iraq, with particular emphasis on the current administration's policies and actions in the war on terror and its consequences for global security in the 21st century.
Included on the DVD is an exclusive interview with Joe Wilson about the outing of his wife, Valerie Plame.
• Winner - Favorite Documentary - Audience Choice Award 8th Annual East Lansing Film Festival
• "A powerful film, frightening in what it says about the U.S. under Bush, the war in Iraq and the 'war on terror'."
– Howard Zinn, historian & author
