Losing Iraq, Frontline

Losing Iraq is on Netflix 1/2015. It was a pretty interesting contrast to Ambassador Bremer's autobiographical version of events.

Gen. Petraeus is in hot water again but operating effectively in Iraq seems more important than whether the bad boy genius had an affair. Unless you are his wife. Can't win on that stuff. Generals are expected to behave. So typical that anything effective got undone.

Then the tidy, concise summary that Iraqi prisoners may have been neutral about the United States when they went into Abu Graib but they aren't neutral now.

Surprising statement that Obama didn't want to deal with it, getting out of Afghanistan was enough, shunted Iraq off on Joe Biden, and there I thought Iraq had calmed down (relatively) for a while.

Explosion after explosion. Gives viewer the feel.

Muqtada, Bremer's nemesis, comes off looking like a raging maniac with footage of him in motion.

Something that no one was tracking on since there were 10 more pressing things to deal with, always seems to become significant in Iraq.

All the money the US pays to neutralize doesn't seem to have any lasting effect. One person ends up satisfied. Everyone else is still furious and sometimes the bought off person is still a problem.