This is the film so hot that HBO at the last minute dropped it like a Wendy's potato just out of the microwave. It had to go outside the country to find a producer, Windsor Ontario NAFTC Studios.
Based on the book by the same title "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" by famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (who successfully convicted Charles Manson under theory that one need not pull the trigger to be guilty of killing.)
Right-wingers have settled on the defense, since everything Bush said turned out to be lies, that Democrats like Bill Clinton, told the same lies, or something close to them. The difference is, A) only Bush had the latest classified intelligence at the time of the invasion which said Saddam's weapons were those of a paranoid dictator for a last-ditch defense, not those of a madman determined to give them to Al Qaeda, and B) regardless of who else was saying what or why, Bush and only Bush took it so far as to actually launch an unprovoked attack on a nation which had nothing to do with 9/11.
The film follows a bad month for Tony Blair in the Chilcot inquiry, when London Times ran the headline: "Intoxicated by Power, Blair Tricked Us Into War." The hoopla followed the "extraordinary admission" by Blair, according to the London Post, that he would have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein regardless of the issue of Iraq's alleged WMDs. This is parallel to the admission made by Dick Cheney on Meet the Press:
Asked by "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert whether the United States would have gone ahead with the invasion anyway if the CIA had reported that Saddam did not, in fact, have such weapons, Cheney said yes.
The former Bush administration understands that the way to lie, if you are going to lie, is lie big. Bush solidified the case against himself when he asserted that he attacked because Saddam "wasn't letting the weapons inspectors back in." This despite the fact that Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector himself, told the UN: "at this juncture [March 7, 2003] we are able to perform professional, no-notice inspections all over Iraq and to increase [our] aerial surveillance."
Bush and Cheney in the same breath repeat the falsehood that "diplomacy had failed" every chance they get. Since the WMD excuse was going to lose traction after Blix's performance, Bush raised the bar for avoidance of war, and his idea of diplomacy was now (March 17, 2003,): "Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict." Some diplomacy.
The film trailer is at IndieGoGo Be the first kid on your block! Schedule a film event in your area. A word for the Never-Gonna-Happeners (we have a new category for you, like the Birthers.) Take your negative shit and "I-wish-it-would-but-it won't" and be a perpetual victim somewhere else. The time has come for Americans to stand up: Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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