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During the 2004 election, filmmakers strove to impact public opinion to help unseat Bush. We decided that we would help by screening some of the best – or perhaps, most disconcerting – documentaries to show what has been going on in the clandestine chambers of the Bush White House. Film for the evening included Fahrenheit 9/11, Unprecedented – The 2000 Presidential Election, Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War, and Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? Short films by Robert Banks and other Cleveland filmmakers were shown between the full-length films.

 

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>> Unprecedented – The 2000 Presidential Election (2002) is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Filmmakers Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler examine modern America’s most controversial political contest: the 2000 election of George W. Bush. What emerges is a disturbing picture of an election marred by suspicious irregularities, electoral injustices, and sinister voter purges in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother.
http://www.unprecedented.org/

>> Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2003) – Robert Greenwald's film contains compelling footage of Bush, Rice, Cheney, Powell, and others painting a very clear picture of the distorted intelligence and “spin and hype” presented to Congress, the United Nations, and the American people. Those interviewed include former Ambassador Joe Wilson, weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and David Albright, former Director of CIA Stansfield Turner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Philip Coyle, anti-terrorism expert Rand Beers, former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and Mel Goodman, former CIA operative Robert Baer, and Washington editor of The Nation, David Corn. Regarding this film, Senator Edward Kennedy stated, "Uncovered is a devastating analysis of the abuses and distortions of intelligence used by the Bush administration in making its case for the war in Iraq. If the American people and Congress had been told the whole truth, America would have never gone to war."
http://www.truthuncovered.com/

>> Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? (2002) The hypocrisy of the U.S. government is powerfully scrutinized in this film, a scathing thesis presented by renowned scholar Noam Chomsky. Speaking before an intimate audience at Harvard University on February 6, 2002, Chomsky sets fair and logical parameters to his thesis before outlining, with academic precision and citation of history, the reasons why America's post-9/11 war on terror is a logical impossibility.

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