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No End in Sight

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No End in Sight

Aida Ussayran, Ali Fadhil, Amazia Baram, Ann Gildrov, Barbara Bodine

Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard ...( read more  read more... )Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war. The film systematically dissects the Bush administration’s Iraq policy decisions and their consequences, which now include 3,000 American deaths and 20,000 American wounded, Iraq on the brink of civil war, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths, the strengthening of Iran, the weakening of the U.S. military and economic costs of over $2 trillion. It marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon and Baghdad’s Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq.

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  • SarahG1988
    October 4, 2009
    SarahG1988
    Review coming soon...
  • Godless
    December 2, 2008
    Godless
    Everything Michael Moore wishes he could do in a documentary. The best I have seen, hands down.
  • Beefy
    May 5, 2008
    Beefy
    Ouch. Pretty scathing, mostly non-partisan look at the events that have led us to the current mess in Iraq. Unfortunately, like most films of this type, a lot of evidence is hearsay or anecdotal; it's hard to prove a point when most of the key players refuse to participate. St...( read more)ill, there are enough folks who were directly involved stating enough to give you pause and make you consider this is more than just some hit piece. This didn't come across to me as partisan so much as a scathing indictment of misguidance and ineptitude. The title says it all.
  • Jungian
    April 5, 2008
    Jungian
    I've seen many documentaries on the war in Iraq and this is by far the best I've seen. Straight facts from the people who were there. From soldiers to those working on Iraq's restoration.
  • rubystevens
    February 9, 2008
    rubystevens
    outstanding overview of the genesis of chaos in iraq. important viewing esp for americans in an election year. yes it will make you angry. history will take a dim view of all this i'm afraid. this film is nominated for best documentary feature
  • ofriel
    November 27, 2009
    ofriel
    Sad review of the realities of Iraq.
  • dukeakasmudge
    October 22, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    This DVD just proves what I already knew.....Bush Is An Idiot!!!!
  • sirstruck
    March 18, 2009
    sirstruck
    This is a movie that I wanted to *really* like - it's edited very well and delivers a story that infuriates and confounds. But, my problem is the lack of counterpoint - everything is so one-sided, it's a little hard to take at face value. Was the Bush administration really near-o...( read more)n completely incompetent in the Iraq War, or just kind of incompetent? I grant that a lot of the major figures refused to be interviewed, but of course you can understand why. So while the film did a great job getting me mad, I spent a lot of the time wondering how much I was being led on - where were we on the propaganda scale?
  • IzzyGlow
    February 26, 2009
    IzzyGlow
    10/10
    No End in Sight removes the conspiracy-mongering ideas and interviewees and uses credible sources and informants to formulate it's argument against American incompetence with handling the war in Iraq.
  • dhetteix
    December 22, 2008
    dhetteix
    Remarkably in-depth, this film refuses to become an expansive political warcry and instead focuses effectively and pointedly upon the facts surrounding the management of a country under occupation without questioning the ethics of doing so in the first place.

    By focusing upon th...( read more)e early-occupation timeline of Iraqi civil management and reconstruction, the film remains neutral in tone, and thus effectively conveys a honest and important message without any partisan smokescreens.

    Sadly, its focus limits its effectiveness, and the viewer must look elsewhere for vital context. Yet, in all fairness, as long as you haven't been under a rock for the past 10 years, you have that context.

    All in all, a documentary in the purest sense of the word. One that does not merely reiterate, but provides a vital voice to, the facts surrounding its subject. Essential viewing.
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