[Sosfbay-discuss] No End In Sight

[Brian Good]

Everybody got up and left even before the lights came on.

Important related points for me:

1.  That truck bomb that blew up the UN in 8/03....  Who 
gained?  How did the Ba'athists gain from ejecting the UN?  
The ones who gained were the mercenaries, who stand to 
get big bucks for doing not a whole lot as long as there's 
social chaos in Irag.

2.  The movie said there were 45,000 mercenaries in Iraq.
I've seen figures of 140,000.

3.  The total cost of the war is estimated by the movie at
1.8 ttttttttTrillion dollars.

4.  Grover Norquist famously said that he wanted to weaken 
the federal gov't so he could drown it in his bathtub.  Is there
any connection between this wish and item 3?

5.  Dahr Jamail says that there's a witness who says that the
Golden Mosque in Samarra (the bombing of which was an
extreme sectarian provocation) was controlled by the Iraqi
Nat'l Guard and US troops all night long.  20 minutes after
they left, it blew up.

6.  Two British soldiers were arrested in Basra dressed as
Arabs, with explosives in the trunk of their car.  They were
taken to the police station.  British soldiers used tracked
vehicles to knock down the walls of the police station to
get these guys back

7.  We must remove the current regime from power, and
we must do it next year.


Brian





> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:53:22 -0800
> From: tnharter at aceweb.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] No End In Sight
> 
> 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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