CBC Our World ~Iraq Four Years On 2007 09 16 Xvid rar

CBC Our World ~Iraq Four Years On  2007 09 16 Xvid rar

 

 

Cap: festering leper

 

 

This week, we look at the turning of the political tide in the U.S., as

Washington assesses its Iraq strategy and girds itself for the future. We have

reports from CBC correspondent, Nahlah Ayed inside Iraq. And feature interviews

with Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius and with Phil Donahue, once a

famous American talk show host, now the director of a moving documentary about

the Iraq war.

 

As we have followed the course of the Iraq war, we have seen a clear trajectory

from early bravado, to confusion over the unanticipated chaos and now to a

sense of failure, as the death count of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians

mounts.

 

The majority of Americans now believe that the war was a mistake and the

administration of George W. Bush is confronting the difficult challenge of what

to do next. The dilemma: how to declare some kind of victory and get out of

Iraq without further destabilizing the country and the region?

 

Brian has always respected the shrewd analysis of David Ignatius. He is a

renowned diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post who has covered the

wars and upheavals of the Middle East for many years. Ignatius, by the way, is

also a writer of fabulous espionage novels. He has followed the dramatic arc

of the Iraq war closely and joins Brian this week to discuss Washington's

awful dilemma.

 

The CBC is now one of the only major television networks with reporters inside

Iraq, so dangerous a place has it become. The CBC's Nahlah Ayed and Margaret

Evans and their crews are there this week sending back daily reports on the

situation on the ground. It's a mixed and contradictory picture. We show two

reports by Nahlah Ayed. In the first one, she examines the desperation of many

people in the capital as they struggle without basic services and constant

danger. In the second report, she travels with US soldiers who show her some

evidence of their success in establishing security.

 

A majority of Americans now disapprove of the way President George Bush is

handling Iraq. It wasn't always like that. When he launched the war, Bush had

strong public and political support. Phil Donahue, the famous talk show host,

was among the minority who passionately denounced the war from the very

beginning, losing his TV show for his efforts. About a year ago, he met an

American soldier who was shot only a week after arriving in Iraq, leaving him

paralyzed from the chest down. Donahue decided to track both the man's life

and the memorable vote in the Congress and Senate that gave Bush full

authority to invade Iraq. The film is called "Body of War." Brian's

conversation with Donahue is lively and compelling.

 

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