[Sosfbay-discuss] No End In Sight

[Tian Harter]

If you have a high speed connection and two hours to watch it, it's at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4145976883634269707&q=No+End+in+Sight&total=804&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3


Tian Harter wrote:
> 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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