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God help me...I'm defending CNN

Lee L. | Washington DC | 03/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This review is just as much response to the one-star reviews as it is my own personal review.First of all, I would consider this to be a very neutral look at the war. Since the two main reasons for going to war (WMD & Al Qaeda) have been disproven, this release can only be seen as a neutral look strictly at the military aspects of the war. I'm not sure what the right-wingers and fox viewers were expecting, but the DVD shows that the U.S. military had a more or less easy go of it in Iraq. If all the release is supposed to do is look at the military aspect of the war, then this dvd does that. It is one-sided and comes from only an American perspective, but it covered what it was supposed to.For those of you who think CNN is "liberal," I would say that just because CNN would seem to favor Democrats (in a less extreme version of how fox favors Republicans) does not make them "liberal." Democrats have been a lot of things the last 25 years...cowardly, accomodating, and spineless...but "liberal" is certainly not a label the Democrats can wear these days.And for my friend that complained about all the footage of injured or dead Iraqis: Just because you'd rather not hear about them (for whatever reason) does not mean they cease to exist."