Buying the War 17 years old

How big media failed us

In 2003, the United States pre-emptively attacked Iraq in a war that would last for eight years claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion and causing untold economic and emotional devastation for the Iraqi people. In this 2007 documentary that originally aired on Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers investigates big media’s role as cheerleader in the clamor for war in the months preceding the March 19, 2003 invasion. How did the mainstream press get it so wrong in the run-up to the Iraq War?

Credits

Buying the War Cast

Name	Character
Bill Moyers He was 72, now 90 years old	as Narrator

Buying the War Crew

Name	Department
Bill Moyers as Writer. He was 72 (now 90) years old	Writing