NYT's LTTE in video form-check it out:

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=54a96b0d367da6ce96eb1401f0e127f76688ddd6



'NYT' Posts Filmmaker's Video 'Letter to Editor' on Bremer Op-Ed

By Joe Strupp

Published: September 14, 2007 11:10 AM ET

NEW YORK In another Web first, The New York Times has posted on its Web site a video Letter to the Editor from Charles Ferguson, the anti-war filmmaker, responding critically to L. Paul Bremer's recent Op-Ed defending his order to dismantle the Iraqi Army in 2003 after the U.S. took Baghdad.

Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal said it was the first such video Letter published by the paper.

The video was briefly available only through TimesSelect, but has since been made available free of charge.

In his Sept. 6 Op-Ed, Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, claimed he did not act alone in disbanding the Iraqi Army, contends that the decision was right, was not "controversial," and made with input from a variety of military and government officials.

"In fact the policy was carefully considered by top civilian and military members of the American government. And it was the right decision," Bremer said in his piece. "By the time Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, the Iraqi Army had simply dissolved. On April 17 Gen. John Abizaid, the deputy commander of the Army’s Central Command, reported in a video briefing to officials in Washington that 'there are no organized Iraqi military units left.' The disappearance of Saddam Hussein’s old army rendered irrelevant any prewar plans to use that army."

The video letter posted today by Ferguson -- director of the current widely hailed documentary "No End In Sight" -- offers a mix of war images and those of related officials with Ferguson's voice narrating his beliefs that Bremer has misled readers in his Op Ed.

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