The film is based on the 2008 book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney.
[2] The film documents Bugliosi as he presents to a UCLA law classroom his case that former president George W. Bush should be prosecuted for the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and 100,000 Iraqi civilians as a result of the invasion and war.
[citation needed] It is based largely on a presentation Bugliosi made before a law class at UCLA, in which he prosecuted Bush.
[6] Long Island Press found it visually uninteresting but fascinating in its exploration of the border between war and murder, and awarded it 3 stars.
[1] Jim Emerson of the Chicago Sun-Times said it often felt like recycling of old news, but he defended its partisanship as a counterpoint to the dominant media at the time of the invasion.