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No End in Sight (2007) -- A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
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Charles Ferguson (writer)
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The American Occupation of Iraq - The Inside Story From the Ultimate Insiders
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A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 8 wins & 7 nominations more
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Cast

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Campbell Scott ... Narrator (voice)
Gerald Burke ... Himself
Ali Fadhil ... Himself
Omar Fekeiki ... Himself
Robert Hutchings ... Himself
Paul Hughes ... Himself
Marc Garlasco ... Himself
George Tenet ... Himself (archive footage)
James Bamford ... Himself
Dick Cheney ... Himself (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld ... Himself (archive footage)
Paul Wolfowitz ... Himself (archive footage)
Colin Powell ... Himself (archive footage)
Samantha Power
Feisal Istrabadi ... Himself (as Faisal Al-Istrabadi)
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Also Known As:
No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent Into Chaos (Australia)
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102 min
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The Best Iraq-Themed Movie of 2007, 17 December 2007
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Author: brocksilvey from United States

In retrospect, I suppose 2007 will go down as the year in which filmmakers began addressing the problems in Iraq. The number of Iraq-themed films has piled up and disappeared at a breathtaking pace. Maybe it's not a surprise that the best of them so far is the one that doesn't try to turn the conflict into something fictional. All of the other Iraq movies have been well intentioned but limp; you can tell they want to address what's wrong without truly enraging anyone. Well, Charles Ferguson, the writer and director of "No End in Sight," has no such qualms, and his film enrages indeed.

Meticulously crafted, "No End in Sight" proves what everyone has already known for a long time: the Iraq conflict is a complete disaster. The film is certainly biased; anyone who wants to discount it based on that fact is welcome to. But anyone who wants to deny that America's handling of post-invasion Iraq has been anything but a complete "quagmire" (to borrow a word from the film) is hopelessly deluded. "No End in Sight" is not about whether or not the war in Iraq was justified; in fact, the film goes out of its way to affirm that at first many Iraqis were happy that the U.S. had deposed Saddam Hussein. Rather, the film is about what went wrong after the invasion, about how groups that actually had a reconstruction plan were met with indifference at every step by an administration that really cared nothing for the Iraqi people even as they fed the American public a lot of hooey about bringing freedom and democracy to them. This film makes clear that for all of its recent talk about dangerous nations destabilizing the world's peace, the United States is one of the most dangerous countries currently in existence.

It's terrifying that governments are run like this; if this film is accurate, my office at work is better managed than the project for occupying post-war Iraq. Ferguson can't be blamed if his film seems one sided. None of the key decision makers managing Iraq policy -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Bremer -- agreed to be interviewed for the film. The only consolation the film offers is that Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld now look like complete fools. Either they thought they had a good plan for rebuilding Iraq and proved themselves to be ridiculously incompetent; or (and more likely) they never really cared about what happened to Iraq in the first place and have proved themselves to be downright scary.

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