[Sosfbay-discuss] No End In Sight

[Tian Harter]

This evening I saw "No End in Sight" at the Palo Alto Peace & Justice 
Center. This is the blurb that their website had about it:

 >The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s
 >descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy
 >
 > No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping insider’s tale of wholesale
 >incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Based on over two hundred
 >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 Armitage, Ambassador Barbara
 >Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), 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 – 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 were a group of men with little or no military experience,
 >knowledge of the Arab world, nor personal experience in Iraq allowed
 >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.

I'd say see this movie if you get a chance. It will make you feel very 
uncomfortable.

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Tian
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