CBC's "THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR" available online -- link -- Holy Shit! ... Canada gets it

[Bozita]

I just watched this "Fifth Estate" gem's first showing. -- 5 stars. MUST SEE TV!



http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/

THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR
Wednesday March 7 at 9pm & midnight on CBC-TV

Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle--the military, media, intellligence, politics--revealing aspects of the story that you didn't find anywhere else.

Now, as the White House warns about the latest threat in the region, this time from Iran, we go back to examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies that convinced the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein.

VISIT THE WEB FEATURE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS STORY,  WATCH IT ONLINE AND DISCUSS IT WITH OTHER VIEWERS

[Octafish]

1. Thanks, Bozita!

I'm in Detroit and I'm taping to-night!

[Bozita]

6. Border towns are great. IIRC, cable systems within 25 miles of the border must ...

...carry the local CBC signal.

Ain't it great?

[Canuckistanian]

2. I must say, the CBC has the real story

They don't cover it often, but when they do, it's phenomenal.

I'm amazed at their accuracy.

[Bozita]

4. God put Canada next to the US to show up America's MSM

TV signals DO cross international borders.

[Gloria]

3. This should be on American TV...Olbermann? Please?

Although I wish they had documented the Taliban/Al Qaeda background and the World Trade Center. They just said Al Qaeda and 911 gave them the excuse to go after Saddam, but didn't talk about why.


Any way this can be saved/downloaded??

[MethuenProgressive]

5. The Brits, The Canadians -So where's our "liberal media"?????

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the MSM to show some spine.

[whirlygigspin]

11. Sobering & Shocking

A truly sobering dose of reality.

Should be must see viewing for all Americans.

And it still leads me to the conclusion that Naomi Klein got it right in her article

Bagdad Year Zero

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html



While the right wingers continue to use the cover of 'spreading democracy and freedom'

their actions on the ground betray the overriding interest is profit and privitization.


After all, if they truly held that spreading democracy and freedom as their paramount cause, they would fight to secure voting rights at home.

Heads in the sand, indeed.

[Dammit Ann]

7. Awesome.

So glad to see someone's media works! Thanks so much for the link! Recommended.

[roamer65]

8. Good show on our lying, sack of shit admin.

F&*k you *.

[Dammit Ann]

24. Excuse me?

[Lisa]

33. I believe that roamer65 was addressing GWB (nicknamed "*" by many DUers)

[roamer65]

35. I absolutely was referring to * and his cabal.

Apology for any confusion.

[Dammit Ann]

40. cool.

sorry, i was confused. it happens often. :P :crazy:

[Enthusiast]

9. "The Lies"............

That about says it all. I was pretty certain that the administration was lying the entire time leading up to the war. I mean, they seemed so.......sleezy.

Glad to see it. I hope more of us watch it.

[jannyk]

14. You are not alone now....

most of us knew they were lying and many knew all about PNAC etc before the war started. And a hearty welcome to DU

:hi:

>>I was pretty certain that the administration was lying the entire time leading up to the war.<<

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. Just watched it. The CBC has done an excellent job!

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[jannyk]

13. Yep, the whole PNAC gang. '911 was what they were waiting for..

their 'Pearl Harbour' that gave them the excuse to go to war with Iraq. How they cashed in on 911!!

Wolfowitz, Pearle, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolsley et al - the gang's all here!!

Oh, it feels so good to see it on the screen and know that millions of others are seeing it all laid out.

[tiptoe]

45. Don't dismiss the possibility of "their" complicity in 9/11 nt

[jannyk]

12. Coming up at 9pm on the West Coast (BC) ...

my husband is on Van Isle at the moment and will be watching - I just watched it here in SF online - it's a must see!!!!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

16. Lived in Victoria for 18 years...

so :toast: cheers and hello :hi:

[LibertyorDeath]

15. Watching right now... Their giving the neocons both barrels!

Long live the CBC!!

BIG REC!

[Bozita]

17. Is there a Congressperson or Senator who should NOT see this?

How is this so easily assembled in Canada by Canadian journalists?

I'm full of questions and anger.

[LibertyorDeath]

20. How is this so easily assembled in Canada by Canadian journalists?

The fifth estate employ Canada's premier investigative journalists
this is reflected in the topics covered and truth they bring to their reports.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/

watch online

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video.html

By popular demand, the fifth estate introduces video to its website. Now you can watch some of our more popular fifth estate documentaries online.

The videos are available as Windows Media Player files. If you need to upgrade your player visit Microsoft's website to download the latest player for free.

RECENT SEASON
Most of the videos for the 2005/2006 & 2006/2007 seasons are available online and can be found by visiting the web features. Look for the video link on the right side.

PAST SEASONS
Here are a few from past years:

NOTE: The running time for all videos is approximately 41:30.

THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF DICK CHENEY
American Vice-President Dick Cheney has walked the corridors of world power for three decades.

Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form. Elected for a second term, he continues to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgement could be.
Watch the video Video
Visit our web feature for more information

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?
Benny Hinn may be the most popular personality in the Christian world today. Thousands pack arenas to see him heal the sick and the afflicted. Tens of thousands more watch his television program. Millions of dollars are donated every year to his ministry, none of which he says goes to him personally. But, what about those miracles? And where does all that money go? Bob McKeown investigates.
Watch the video Video
Visit our web page for more information

STICKS AND STONES
The United States is in the midst of a very un-civil war. It's a war of words that's pitting conservative against liberal, that's already divided the country into red and blue. The new gladiators are commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter and their forum is the television studios of networks like Fox. It's loud, it's raucous, but does it have anything to do with the truth?
Watch the video Video
Visit our web page for more information

[mzmolly]

18. Thanks so much for sharing.

I'd love to DVR this if it's on in the US.

[Bozita]

19. Is there a way to transfer it from a DVR to an external HD?

If so, ...

BTW, it's a Motorola dual tuner HiDef receiver from Comcast.

[mzmolly]

21. Heck, I can barely operate my DVR, just got it.

;)

[jannyk]

22. Don't hold your breath on that one

can't see them showing it down here - it trashes all the news networks bigtime. I would so love a copy though - I'm off to the website to see if they sell them.

[Bozita]

23. I've conjured up a new word. Something to fit nicely into this discussion ...

... IMFUCKINGPEACHMENT!

Nothing less.

[tiptoe]

25. only hints at "Lies of 9/11"..the deception serving for attack on American freedoms and democracy,

the radical conservative agenda beyond Iraq and Iran.

www.stj911.org

"How did 8 or 9 Neoconervatives who have...who are basically utopians... get control of the American government? How did they overwhelm the Congress...the Press...the bureaucracy...all of us?! How did they simply run us into the ground? Is our Democracy that fragile?" --Seymour Hersh

YES IT IS, SEYMOUR, IF THE BASIC INSTITUTION OF ANY DEMOCRACY IS UNDERMINED. It's called ELECTION FRAUD, Seymour!

Do the original groups who lobbied for HAVA in 2002 and who now seem slow to admit the "errors of their way" -- "1. Public interest groups - mostly progressive, 2. Labor unions, 3. Minority rights groups, 4. Disability rights groups, 5. Industry" -- yet appreciate the danger in relying on electronic vote-counting machines in elections for establishing the will of the people in democracies? "We are seeing the consequences of election fraud in America."

Political wanna-be Arnold Schwartzenegger -- with whom convicted-and-sentenced-and-now-supposedly-dead former Enron-CEO Kenneth Lay commisserated in email dated May 17, 2001 (the subject of which was "California's Energy Crisis", as uncovered by FBI raid on Enron computers) -- seems to have entered the recall-election-fray for governor of California with TWO CHORES from his "republican" task-masters: 1) Protect the illegally-gotten $9 BILLION gains from the gaming of California's deregulated energy system (designed with flaws by Republican Pete "Let the Democrats fix it" Wilson). Ken Lay's girly-man-governor Ahnuld accomplished his first political-novice assigned chore in the very first week of office of "service to Californians" -- as reported by Greg Palast -- by settling for pennies-on-the-dollar then-Lt. Gov Bustamante's lawsuit to recover the state's $9 Billion losses under California's Unfair Business Practices laws (after Ken-Lay-recommended, Bush-appointed crony commissioners on the FERC had denied Gov. Davis' request for reparation at the federal level)...and 2) Re-instituting electronic vote-counting machines throughout California (especially Diebold's...by forcing out of office Diebold-decertifier SoS, Kevin Shelley, and replacing him with appointee MacPherson, who re-certified the Diebold vote-counting-machines). I have a vague memory of a newspaper photo of Schwartznegger lugging vote-count machines (DREs ?) in his arms, before the hack-demos by Harri Hursti and Princeton University exposed their viabilities for election fraud (see below).

"How did 8 or 9 Neoconervatives who have...who are basically utopians... get control of the American government? How did they overwhelm the Congress...the Press...the bureaucracy...all of us! How did they simply run us into the ground? Is our Democracy that fragile?" --Seymour Hersh

THEY CHEATED, SEYMOUR! They cheated democracy and spit on the constitution and continue to do so.

And the American people seem to be coming around to understanding they are being cheated in their elections.

Historical Bush Approval Ratings: 2004 to 2007 only

[KoKo]

30. Thanks for the Post of his Polling Numbers since his Installation.

Only way he got back in for 2004 was a Stolen Election. Look at those numbers....sheesh.

[applegrove]

26. Very well done.

[dogday]

27. The truth needs to come out

I am for anything that will show the truth and stop the war.....

[Blackhatjack]

28. Just shows the rest of the world knows, just our MSM that is squelching this...n/t

[KoKo]

29. Links to Video and past Video's.... Should be a great watch ...

bookmarked to watch tonight. Many Thanks!

[mod mom]

31. Thanks for posting this.

[jannyk]

32. Kick - if you haven't seen this you should! nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

34. Kick! nt

[KT2000]

36. The rest of the world knows

the truth but the U.S. is still kept in the dark by the MSM.

[deacon]

37. k + r

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

38. Excellent! One major indictment they omitted was the Downing St. Memos.

I wonder if that was done deliberately due to their relationship with the UK.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. Kicking again! nt

[madfloridian]

41. Glad to see Donahue featured. NBC gave in to fear...

and fired him because of a report saying he was a flaming liberal. And James Woolsey sounds like a bastard. Says we will be there for decades taking Democracy to them.

Bastard.

They showed Coulter for what she is...just outrageous.

[Blue_Tires]

42. k+r

[Lisa]

43. I'm so proud of my public broadcaster!

My tax dollar well spent ...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. Kick! nt

[Eurobabe]

46. I found this show to be exactly like Why We Fight,

in fact, it was almost as if they took footage from the movie? Although the CBC special tied the deceptions more to the Bush administration.

Watch 'Why We Fight' by Eugene Jarecki. It's even better.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/