The Iraq war is finally getting some proper scrutiny – from a TV programme | Simon Jenkins

More than 15 years after Bush and Blair’s invasion, the errors of the greatest war crime of our age are being exposed

Once Upon a Time in Iraq is the most searing anti-war documentary I have seen. In five parts on Mondays on BBC2, it is not bangs, screams and tears. The searing is not visceral. It is intellectual. In among the footage of the 2003 war, we hear simply the calm narrative of people whose lives were traumatised by the conflict, who witnessed the gut-wrenching obscenity of two great d...