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Date: August 12, 2007 9:18:52 PM PDT
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Subject: No End in Sight
The same brainiacs who tricked the "Evil Empire" into invading and
occupying Afghanistan, intending to turn that into an endless,
futile war --the USSR's personal Vietnam-- and knowing this would
result in the economic exhaustion and finally bankruptcy of the
Soviet Union, leading to the "fall of Communism" worldwide, sold
America on THIS war -- which has already resulted in the economic
exhaustion and virtual bankruptcy of the United States, which might
lead to the "fall of Capitalism" worldwide. Cui bono?
No End in Sight
August 10, 2007
Cast & Credits
With Campbell Scott (narrator), Barbara Bodine, Chris Allbritton,
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Col. Paul Hughes, Walter Slocombe, Seth
Moulton, David Yancey, Gen. Jay Garner, George Packer, Gerald
Burke, Hugo Gonzalez, Samantha Power, James Fallows, Linda Bilmes,
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, Marc Garlasco, Matt Sherman, Nir Rosen, Paul
Pillar, Ray Jennings, Richard Armitage, Robert Hutchings and
Yaroslav Trofimov.
Magnolia Pictures presents a documentary written and directed by
Charles Ferguson. Running time: 122 minutes. No MPAA rating.
Opening today at AMC Pipers Alley and Landmark Renaissance Place
Cinema.
by Roger Ebert
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/
REVIEWS/708090301
Remember the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alex has his eyes
clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar
experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would
like them to see "No End in Sight," the story of how we were led
into that war, and more than 3,000 American lives and hundreds of
thousands of other lives were destroyed.
They might find the film of particular interest because they would
know so many of the people appearing in it. This is not a
documentary filled with anti-war activists or sitting ducks for
Michael Moore. Most of the people in the film were important to the
Bush administration. They had top government or military jobs, they
had responsibility in Iraq or Washington, they implemented policy,
they filed reports, they labored faithfully in service of U.S.
foreign policy and then they left the government. Some jumped, some
were pushed. They all feel disillusioned about the war and the way
the White House refused to listen to them about it.
The subjects in this film now feel that American policy in Iraq was
flawed from the start, that obvious measures were not taken, that
sane advice was disregarded, that lies were told and believed, and
that advice from people on the ground was overruled by a cabal of
neo-con goofballs who seemed to form a wall around the president.
The president and his inner circle knew, just knew, for example,
that Saddam had or would have weapons of mass destruction, that he
was in league with al-Qaida and bin Laden, and that in some way, it
was all hooked up with Sept. 11. Not all of the advice in the world
could penetrate their obsession, and they fired the bearers of bad
news.
It is significant, for example, that a Defense Intelligence Agency
team received orders to find links between al-Qaida and Hussein.
That there were none was ignored. Key adviser Paul Wolfowitz's
immediate reaction to Sept. 11 was "war on Iraq." Anarchy in that
land was all but assured when the Iraqi army was disbanded against
urgent advice from our people in the field. That meant that a huge
number of competent military men, most of them no lovers of Saddam,
were rendered unemployed -- and still armed. How was this
disastrous decision arrived at? People directly involved said it
came as an order from administration officials who had never been
to Iraq.
Did Bush know and agree? They had no indication. Perhaps not. A
National Intelligence report commissioned in 2004 advised against
the war. Bush, who apparently did not read it, dismissed it as
guesswork -- a word that seems like an ideal description of his own
policies.
Who is Charles Ferguson, director of this film? A one-time senior
fellow of the Brookings Institute, software millionaire, originally
a supporter of the war, visiting professor at MIT and Berkeley, he
was trustworthy enough to inspire confidences from former top
officials. They mostly felt that orders came from the precincts of
Vice President Cheney, that Cheney's group disregarded advice from
veteran American officials, and in at least one case, channeled a
decision to avoid Bush's scrutiny. The president signed, but didn't
read, and you can see the quizzical, betrayed looks in the eyes of
the men and women in the film, who found that the more they knew
about Iraq, the less they were heeded.
Although Bush and the war continue to sink in the polls, I know
from some readers that they still support both. That is their
right. And if they are so sure they are right, let more young men
and women die or be maimed. I doubt if they will be willing to see
this film, which further documents an administration playing its
private war games.
No, I am distinctly not comparing anyone to Hitler, BUT ... I
cannot help being reminded of the stories of him in his Berlin
bunker, moving nonexistent troops on a map, and issuing orders to
dead generals.
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