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Completed in 2004, "Hijacking Catastrophe" remains probably the best American compilation of the case that the War on Iraq was a PNAC Neo-con effort to create a new age of American empire building. Although BuzzFlash readers will be familiar with the facts presented in "Hijacking," the documentary threads them together into a compelling indictment of the Bush Administration. "Hijacking Catastrophe" looks at the "war on terror" through an entirely different lens than the mainstream media.

One neat thing is that the DVD offers a 34-minute and 64-minute version of the documentary, along with additional footage.

"Hijacking" is a film that you will nod your head to as you watch it and feel haunted at the same time. Narrated by Julian Bond, the film captures the sinister, hidden agenda of the Bush regime -- and reveals how they used propaganda to pull off a costly and tragic "bait and switch" war.

You are left feeling that Bush is a puppet who is satisfied to be in a position of power, while others -- most notably Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz -- determine the fate of American foreign policy.

Most sobering is realizing how inept the Bush crew is. Rumsfeld in particular appears to say anything that comes into his head, with no accountability whatsoever. Remember, he promised that the Iraq War would be a cakewalk? He almost appears to be in the mid-stages of dementia, he makes such ludicrous and contradicting claims.

Fear and psy-ops are the sales tools of this administration that seeks to bend the world to the will and marketplace of America, as it seizes whatever natural resources it desires from uncooperative nations. Fear is used to seduce the American people into following megalomaniac policy-makers into the jaws of catastrophe.

There is a BBC documentary, "The Power of Nightmares" -- which supposedly will finally be released in the United States this year -- that covers much of the same ground of "Hijacking Catastrophe" and is absolutely riveting.

In the meantime, "Hijacking Catastrophe" is well worth a watch. It reminds us, in well-documented and persuasive fashion, how we as a nation were hoodwinked by an arrogant administration drawn from the most extremist foreign policy wing of the extremist modern Republican Party.

In another age, they would be called fringe fanatics. But they have managed to package themselves as mainstream.

Whatever you want to label them in terms of politics, the certain bet is that they are utterly ineffective and bumbling. They have yet to rendezvous with reality.

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