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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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about as important a documentary you'll likely see this year more (46 total)

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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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62 out of 71 people found the following comment useful.
about as important a documentary you'll likely see this year, 5 August 2007
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Author: MisterWhiplash from United States

Sometimes seeing a documentary that has such immense and complex connotations like the war on Iraq can be so staggering that one might be tempted to rate it highly just based on how compelling the subject matter is. That part of it, of whether it's worthy for a documentary, is important. But first-time director Ferguson does an incredible job of amounting crucial interviews with former Generals and government officials, ex-soldiers, enough footage of Iraq destruction for two or more movies, and a mounting sense of dread over the unequivocal fiasco that what went on leading up to-during-and especially after America invaded Iraq, and the film was more than worthy of a special jury prize at Sundance earlier this year.

It's devastating and infuriating enough to get the people you might be with seeing the film into a heated argument (probably with everyone on the side, at least, that it was profoundly stupid to go into the country to start with, without a real plan anyway), because of the layers that can be taken into account. If one watched the news enough, or read what was available at the time, then some of the information may not be all new-news. But a lot of it is, which throws on fuel to the fire for Ferguson's thesis that with all the mounting mistakes, the most crucial ones came in taking for granted what would happen if say, for example, the Iraqi army was disbanded along with the Ba'ath party (if that's how it's spelled). Interestingly, Ferguson doesn't spend too much time on the blunder that was going into Iraq in the first place; that's for other films and he knows it well (namely Fahrenheit 9/11).

We went in. Now 'what to do next' is really where the cards are all layed out: the looting and rioting, which went on for days and ruined many of Iraq's small places of civilization like museums and libraries (which, of course, Rumsfeld and the US didn't mind and practically encouraged), then after that the whole huge f*** up that was the lack of real planning for after we toppled Sadaam's regime (for Germany after WW2 the plan was layed out two years in advance, for Iraq it started 50 days before the invasion), and very notably Walter B. Slocombe (who comes off stumbling through his interview as he can't answer why he wasn't talking to other advisers about the plans of what to do with the Iraq security) and L Paul Bremer, who crafted the three plans for reconstituting Iraq, which basically created the Insurgency. That part, of course, is a big chunk of No End in Sight, with the blunders continuing on and gaining force with the US involvement in Iraq.

So the question comes first to those thinking about the questions Ferguson lays out through his interview, aside from how in the living hell (literally, if you're over in Iraq) we've now spend two *trillion* dollars over there, which is: Why? To get a documentary like that now probably would make a big enough uproar to get people in the streets. But for now, No End in Sight will have to do.

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