314. The Last 600 Meters: PBS to Air Documentary, After All
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After year of rejecting this film, PBS has finally invited it to air. Filmmaker Michael Pack on his new documentary with firsthand stories and video footage from Fallujah and Najaf, Iraq: the biggest battles America has fought since Vietnam. For more info. visit: ManifoldProductions.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. It's Cheryl Ackison. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, the last 600 meters, filmmaker Michael Pack on his new documentary |
| 0:19.0 | with firsthand stories and video footage from Fallujah and |
| 0:22.4 | Najaf Iraq, the biggest battles America has fought since Vietnam. Let's just get right to it and |
| 0:28.9 | start by playing you the audio of the trailer from the last 600 meters. It was almost as though there was a bogeyman out there. |
| 0:39.3 | We were facing a lot more enemy than we had the capability to deal with. |
| 0:44.3 | It dug trenches, they fortified houses. |
| 0:47.3 | They were ready. |
| 0:49.3 | We wanted to go. |
| 0:50.3 | We were just waiting on the edge of a knife. |
| 0:53.3 | When are we going to get to go? |
| 0:55.1 | The order is seize the city. |
| 0:59.7 | RPGs, small arms fire from everywhere. |
| 1:05.0 | I told him that I wanted to go and he looked at me and said, sorry, you're going to die. |
| 1:13.6 | The destruction is just horrible. |
| 1:19.1 | The hardest thing about fighting this enemy is they're not afraid to die. |
| 1:21.6 | They're not afraid to die. |
| 1:23.6 | Then how do you fight him? |
| 1:29.3 | Grampstone down. then how do you fight him? Rams down! |
| 1:33.3 | Be prepared to start at one end of the city and fight your way through to the other end. |
| 1:39.3 | There's firing going on, there are grenades, |
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