Flat, uninformative, not factual enough .. disappointing

I found this works as an entertaining, dramatic miniseries and that's about it.

However I had hoped viewing this series would provide some greater insight on timing of actions and mitigating circumstances with respect to the entire Iraq/U.S. conflict, and in particular UN intervention. Instead foreign policy, U.S. response and strategic insight were completely glossed over -- given transitional treatment at best. The character portrayals were very one-dimensional and so much creative license was taken with storyline development that it dripped with predictable soap opera type cheesiness.

Well acted for what it was, yes. But I walk away from this series having learned absolutely nothing about Iraq save the producers hate Saddam. Not that I expected anything less of them than hatred .. but geez, I sure did expect more.