Before Miller can get Al-Rawi to safety to testify, Freddy kills the General, claiming that the future of Iraq should be decided by Iraqis, not by puppets of the old or new regime. ✉️ The Aftermath

: Reviews are often split along political lines. Some see it as a "stinging rebuke" of the intelligence failures regarding WMDs, while others have criticized it as having a "leftist bias".

: The film portrays a clash between different branches of U.S. authority—specifically the CIA (represented by Brendan Gleeson) and the Pentagon (represented by Greg Kinnear). Kinnear’s character, Clark Poundstone, is widely seen as an analog for Paul Bremer, the real-life head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Most UPD versions are uncut (115 minutes). However, some TV-ripped dubs may cut the stronger language and some violent stabbing scenes. Look for "Unrated" or "Blu-ray" tagged files.