I was in DC on 9/11 and I went to Iraq on a tour in 2007. This piece tactfully outlines how detrimental the Iraq invasion was to the war on Al Quada and the work our forces were doing in Afghanistan. True that our forces in Afghanistan were building schools and bridges and really helping the population but they all got sucked out to go invade Iraq. People in DC at the time KNEW that the Iraq invasion was outright illegal; heck, Joe Wilson spoke at my Rotary Club and told the whole yellowcake truth and that his wife's CIA job had been outed. Helen Thomas wrote a book on how the press just gave W. Bush a free pass on that illegal war and why Colin Powell and Condi Rice signed off on it I will never understand. The film also points out that torture was wrong. It is true that the Dept of Justice wrote a memo justifying torture but DOJ lawyers do not know anything about the Law of War and that torture violates all four Geneva Conventions. Those are treaties the US signed onto and is duty-bound to follow. Plus, as stated in the film, torture never results in actionable intelligence and none of the post-911 torture was no different.