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Pioneering talk show host and Body of War exec producer Phil Donahue, explains how the politics of fear led the U.S. into the Iraq war and keeps Americans complicit. He also talks about the personal pain of the war we don't see.
Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue
Talk show host tells how he met the young man who is the subject of his new documentary "Body of War" and discusses how sanitized the war in Iraq has been. (4:14)
Pioneering talk show host explains how the politics of fear led the U.S. into the Iraq war and keeps Americans complicit. Full interview. (23:10)
Using his trademark style of bounding up and down studio aisles, Phil Donahue pioneered the audience participation TV talk show format. For almost three decades, he interviewed everyone from world leaders and celebrities to civil rights activists and war dissenters, winning 20 Daytime Emmys. Donahue began his broadcasting career as a radio station news director. He recently exec-produced the documentary, Body of War, which follows a U.S. soldier's attempt to readjust to life as a handicapped veteran.
