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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 29 sec.) ; 316664783 bytes |
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"I believe that one of the worst things that the head of a democracy can do is mislead the public about an issue of war and peace that would result in the deaths of the sons and daughters of that country, and it is in that belief and the belief that members of the administration did just that then I would be in favour of impeachment of the President." - Greg Thielman, a former career intelligence agent who served in successive U.S. Administrations. He was charged with directly advising Colin Powell on the threat Iraq posed to the world but has since contradicted many of the claims made by Powell to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003. In February 2003, millions of people worldwide took to their streets desperate to stop an unjust war. No amount of protest, no amount of suspicion about the justification for war could quiet the beating drums. Did the people know something their governments did not?This program chronicles the inside journey of the coalition of the willing from the days following 9/11 to the bombing of Baghdad."Two years on, Iraq has been destroyed. The human toll is immeasurable. The intelligence failure on Iraq will go down in history as the biggest intelligence blunder since Vietnam," says filmmaker Carmel Travers.After scores of interviews with senior intelligence analysts, Iraqi refugees, Arab leaders, insurgent bombers and ordinary citizens, the filmmaker believes that there can be only one conclusion - the invasion, conquest and occupation of Iraq was a war based on a litany of lies.Among those interviewed for Truth, Lies and Intelligence is Andrew Wilkie, a former senior intelligence officer with the Office of National Assessment (ONA) in Canberra. He was responsible for, among other things, examining the human cost of a full-scale war being waged against Iraq. Wilkie trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and was the Senior Transnational Issues Analyst at ONA before his public resignation in protest at Australia's involvement in the war in Iraq in March, 2003. He does not believe that he betrayed his country. "I did not betray my country. I betrayed my government for the country that I love."In an effort to put a human face on the war, Travers journeyed to Iraq with writer and former refugee Guzin Najim, who fled Iraq with her two children six years ago, following the murder of her husband.Truth, Lies and Intelligence is a PurplePictures production in association with SBS Independent. Financed by the Film Finance Corporation. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English) |
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Broadcast 2009-11-18 at 01:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Ethics -- Religious aspects.
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Intelligence service.
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Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Social conditions.
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War -- Causes.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Iraq.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Travers, Carmel, director
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