No End in Sight - Documentary Movie Iraq Fiasco - See This Movie

[RamboLiberal]

I went to see this last night. Though I know the facts well on how Bush and his bums blew it this movie fleshes out the mistakes made by the arrogant idiots in charge. For one it shows Bremer is lying when he says they couldn't reconstitute the Iraq Army. Colonel Paul Hughes Colenel Larry Wilkerson (Powell's assistant) explains how he was in contact with dozens of Iraqi senior army officers and he had computer records of over 130,000 Iraqi troops ready to come back to their units. Shows the Iraqi soldiers protesting their sudden unemployment when Bremer disbanded the Iraq military.

Roger Ebert's review:

Remember the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would like them to see "No End in Sight," the story of how we were led into that war, and more than 3,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of other lives were destroyed.

They might find the film of particular interest because they would know so many of the people appearing in it. This is not a documentary filled with anti-war activists or sitting ducks for Michael Moore. Most of the people in the film were important to the Bush administration. They had top government or military jobs, they had responsibility in Iraq or Washington, they implemented policy, they filed reports, they labored faithfully in service of U.S. foreign policy and then they left the government. Some jumped, some were pushed. They all feel disillusioned about the war and the way the White House refused to listen to them about it.

The subjects in this film now feel that American policy in Iraq was flawed from the start, that obvious measures were not taken, that sane advice was disregarded, that lies were told and believed, and that advice from people on the ground was overruled by a cabal of neo-con goofballs who seemed to form a wall around the president.

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Who is Charles Ferguson, director of this film? A one-time senior fellow of the Brookings Institute, software millionaire, originally a supporter of the war, visiting professor at MIT and Berkeley, he was trustworthy enough to inspire confidences from former top officials. They mostly felt that orders came from the precincts of Vice President Cheney, that Cheney's group disregarded advice from veteran American officials, and in at least one case, channeled a decision to avoid Bush's scrutiny. The president signed, but didn't read, and you can see the quizzical, betrayed looks in the eyes of the men and women in the film, who found that the more they knew about Iraq, the less they were heeded.

Although Bush and the war continue to sink in the polls, I know from some readers that they still support both. That is their right. And if they are so sure they are right, let more young men and women die or be maimed. I doubt if they will be willing to see this film, which further documents an administration playing its private war games. No, I am distinctly not comparing anyone to Hitler, but I cannot help being reminded of the stories of him in his Berlin bunker, moving nonexistent troops on a map, and issuing orders to dead generals.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/REVIEWS/708090301/1023

Movie website with trailer: http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/

[chelsea0011]

1. Terrific movie from the voices of the Bush people who were there

Brutally honest.

[silverlib]

2. I saw this and it is incredible

A realistic approach in presentation that has the potential to move even the most ardent supporters of this war. It's frank, straight forward with credible interviews and it easily follows a time line of events that set us up for failure.