The film begins with the interview subjects stating their names and credentials, and the sheer breadth and volume of them is quite overwhelming. They include Stansfield Turner, former head of the CIA; Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Joseph Wilson, the former diplomat who blew the whistle on the false assertion regarding Iraq's purchasing uranium from Niger; Ray McGovern, a top CIA analyst for nearly three decades; Scott Ritter, the former top U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq; David Kay, who was subsequently appointed by Bush to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and many, many others.

These figures, representing a broad swath in terms of philosophies and politics, deliver damning refutations of the Bush team's assertions, which are, naturally, edited for maximum effect. While the arguments obviously will be digested differently according to the viewer's preconceived notions, the impressive credentials of the witnesses, MOST OF THEM FORMER INSIDERS RATHER THAN MERE PONTIFICATORS, GIVE THEIR ARGUMENTS AN UNDENIABLE CREDIBILITY. (Caps mine. Bow)