You’ll Be Happier If You Don’t Watch This But You’ll Be Smarter If You Do.

Frontline is always good but “Bush’s War” is on another level. In twenty years, when they’re teaching the Bush Administration and the Iraq War in high schools and colleges, this will (or at least should) be mandatory viewing. And since we all happen to be living this particular bit of history right now, this might be an ideal time to catch up on what’s been going down.

Even if you’ve read all the right papers and watched all the right programs, listened to NPR and consulted Chomsky on it, whatever… you’ll still get a new perspective out of watching this piece. It’s long and slow like it should be and never would be on any other American TV station. I don’t know how they got all the interviews they got (people like Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Bremmer and Dick Armitage being remarkably candid) but they did and the resulting documentary is without equal because of that. What else can I say to get you to watch this show???? It’s the antidote to finding yourself in 1984.

And it’s all right here for free on PBS.com