A radical fringe of the Republican Party used the shock of September 11 to push a foreign policy agenda two decades in the making, according to this film from Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp. Narrated by Julian Bond, it argues that Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives around George W. Bush treated the attacks as an opening to expand military spending, project American power abroad, and roll back civil liberties and social programs at home, with the invasion of Iraq as the clearest result. More than twenty interviews carry the case, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski describing a propaganda operation built to link 9/11 anxiety to a preexisting war plan, along with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, and Noam Chomsky. The film traces the manipulation of intelligence and public fear step by step, then poses the question it keeps circling back to: what happens if this agenda survives into a second Bush term.