President Bush Obviously Did Not Know the History of Iraq!

Well-crafted & revealing film covers the history lessons that the Bush Administration failed to learn before launching an invasion into Iraq

BLOOD AND OIL - WORLDWIDE RELEASE - Jan. 5, 2006

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[Pittsburgh, PA - Dec. 28, 2006] Filmmaker Marty Callaghan thought it was time that a film provide more detail on the expansive and complex theater of operations that took place in the Middle East during WW I, which still influences the hatred and violence seen today.

Blood and Oil - The Middle East in World War I examines the devastating conflict and Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East. The effects on the Arab world have lasted for more then 85 years, and were mentioned by Osama bin Laden in his video message to the world shortly after 9/11 (click here).

Producer Callaghan has this to say about the U.S. Defense Department's handling of the war in Iraq:

"I have been concerned about the Bush Administration use of a false model in dealing with Iraq, a model that was forged by Western imperialism 90 years ago (Sykes-Picot). For example, as long as the U.S. sees the border of Iraq as a valid demarcation, rather than working to "deconstruct" Sykes-Picot, it will continue to face problems with Shia, Sunni and Kurdish groups."

Blood and Oil covers the history lessons that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld failed to learn before launching an invasion into Iraq:

In 1916, France and Great Britain created a plan to carve up the Middle East into artificial states that the West continues to see as “real” nations.
In the 1920s, armed invasions by London and France caused violent reactions throughout the Middle East, similar to what is happening in Iraq today.
Starting in World War I, Middle Eastern oil reserves became important to the West; the artificial state of Iraq was created to protect British oil interests.
Western powers forced three distinct cultural groups – Shias, Sunnis and Kurds – to live together as one political entity under the “Iraqi” flag.
It took decades of bloody and costly struggles to convince Britain and France that they had no business sending armies into the Middle East. Must the U.S. learn the same harsh lesson?

Written and produced by Marty Callaghan (Archives of War, Remember Pearl Harbor: America Taken by Surprise), and distributed by Inecom Entertainment, this feature-length documentary film follows conflict from the Ottoman Empire's entry into the Great War in October 1914 to the Allied victory and declaration of the new Turkish Republic in 1923, and the hostilities that have plagued the region since. The 112-minute DVD also features extended expert commentary. Worldwide release, Tuesday, Jan. 5th.

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