Twenty-three years after the United States invaded Iraq, the American public now knows that despite his horrific reign and brutal dictatorship, Saddam Hussein never had any weapons of mass destruction. Based on former CIA analyst John Nixon’s 2016 memoir “Debriefing the President,” and adapted for television by Daniel Stiepleman and Jonathan Wakeham, TNT’s limited series, “High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam,” reflects on the horrors of the Iraq War. It also depicts the capture and execution of Hussein and the failed rationale behind the costly conflict, which is now seen as a blight on American history. Tedious and violent, the most intriguing aspects of the show — Nixon’s interrogations of the deposed president — are bogged down by endless war montages and clumsy dialogue, seemingly ripped from lengthy intelligence briefings.“High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” opens on March 17, 2003. John Nixon (a terribly miscast Joel Kinnaman) bikes through the streets of Washington, D.C. In a voiceover, John recounts President George H.W. Bush’s conflicts with Iran and President George W. Bush’s (Paul Ryan) choice to follow in his father’s footsteps and invade Iraq in an attempt to find President Saddam Hussein’s (a fantastic Waleed Zuaiter) so-called weapons of…
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