No End In Sight
By Larry Johnson on July 27, 2007 at 2:50 PM in Current Affairs
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Larry C Johnson
No End in Sight, The Winner of the Sundance Film Festival special jury award for best documentary hits the theaters today and is worth your time and your dime. It is probably the wrong title because the film does not explain why Iraq is a quagmire with no clear exit strategy. A more accurate title would be, “How We Put Our Head Up Our Own Ass in Iraq” or maybe, “No Sight in the Beginning”.
It is not a feel good film. Writer/director Charles Ferguson does a terrific job of showing how the failure to plan for post-war Iraq and the fateful decisions by Don Rumsfeld and Jerry Bremer (aka L. Paul Bremer) in the summer of 2003 sowed the seeds for the ultimate growth of a full blown insurgency. Some key players not previously interviewed for other documentaries that have recounted the debacle in Iraq–specifically retired General Jay Garner, retired Army Colonel Paul Hughes, former Ambassador Barbara Bodine, and former head of the National Intelligence Council Robert Hutchings, and DOD official Walter Slocombe–provide new and troubling testimony about the criminal negligence that was the Bush Administration policy in Iraq.
The movie is a stunning but not surprising indictment of Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Condi Rice, and Jerry Bremer. There is no doubt when the credits roll that these folks have the blood of innocent Iraqis and brave American soldiers on their hands.
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