Phil Donahue, American media personality and former talk show host, discusses his new movie, Body of War, the challenges of disabled Iraq war veterans, the media’s coverage of the Iraq war, the sanitization and marketing of the Iraq war by the Bush administration, the status of dissent in America, the debate of the Iraq war in Congress, the spending of the Iraq war, the loss of civil liberties, war profiteering, the timing of the Iraq war resolution in Congress and the impossibility of supporting both the war and the troops.

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Phil Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, which ran for 26 years.Donahue hosted a talk show on MSNBC from 2002-2003. Donahue served as executive producer for the documentary, Body of War.

Jenny Eliscu, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and host of “Left of Center” on Sirius Radio, discusses the real life of the James Blake Miller, the “Marlboro Man” in the iconic photo from the 2nd Battle of Fallujah, the War Party’s spin which used him as a poster boy and the reality of the real man – broken by and opposed to the war, his PTSD symptoms, survivors guilt and the difficulty of getting help from the VA.

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Jenny Eliscu is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where she has worked since 1999.