Frontline : Truth, War and Consequences (2003)
Genres - News [TV] |
Sub-Genres - Military & War, Politics & Government |
Run Time - 90 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Correspondent Martin Smith explores how the "mess" in Iraq six months after Saddam's fall came to be. Smith interviews State and Defense Department officials---who aren't on the same page. One example of this "interagency warfare": Gen. Jay Garner, the first Pentagon administrator in Iraq, tells Smith that he had been told to "ignore" a postwar plan developed by State. And when Garner arrived in Iraq---days after the troops---the country's infrastructure was already in tatters.
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aftermath, behind-the-scenes, CIA (Central-Intelligence-Agency), evidence, failure, investigation, Iraq, military-strategy, military-takeover, national-security, Pentagon, post-war, reconstruction, September 11th, struggle, unprepared, war, weapons-of-mass-destruction
