Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 (2021) User Reviews

Propaganda 101

[tfp-15576 · 3/10 · 23 September 2021]

While there were truths laced through this documentary, they were there to cover the amount of untruths and smooth this rewriting of history

Even had some unrepentant war criminals trying to justify their own disgusting behaviours

911 The world wept for the american peoples loss but then saw how corrupt the US political class is and how they manipulated this tragedy to further their belief in manifest destiny and control of the middle east

This doco seems to want to water down how blatant and disgusting the lies were from cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and their neo-con cabal, geez even that war criminal from the 60's and the vietnam invasion, Kissinger got involved as an advisor with the Iraq invasion.

Not Propaganda IMHO

[Lizpie907 · 8/10 · 27 December 2022]

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.

So worth watching!

[astruthers-77027 · 10/10 · 13 September 2021]

Excellent interviews with top people in CIA and White House. Learned a lot!