Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, sits down with Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing as Washington's attention drifts toward Afghanistan, a conflict Barack Obama has called the "good war." Rushing presses him on what that shift means for Iraq, still absorbing deadly bombings even as the U.S. prepares to speed up its troop withdrawal after January's elections. The conversation turns pointed on Iran, with Hill defending accusations of "foreign interference" while Rushing notes the U.S. is running its own occupation next door. Much of the interview circles a single question: will Washington ever apologize for the human cost of the war it started? Hill answers as a career diplomat, weighing relationship-building and conflict resolution against the plain facts of casualties and displacement, without fully committing to the word apology. Journalist Jeremy Schahill also appears, adding an outside voice to Hill's insider account. The film stays close to this one extended conversation, using it to measure how U.S. policy in Iraq is actually being justified as the war winds down.