No End in Sight
This in-depth, Oscar-nominated documentary from filmmaker (and former Brookings Institution fellow) Charles Ferguson examines the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the subsequent occupation by President George W. Bush and his administration. Featuring exclusive interviews with central players and detailed analysis, the film pulls no punches as it chronicles the twists and turns America took on the path to war.
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This should be required viewing for everyone that voted for Bush in 2000. Actually, this should be required viewing for everyone. It's incredibly important that each of us understands just how monumentally incompetent this administration has been, because only then will we perhaps understand that selecting a leader should not be about whether we want to have a beer with that person, but rather is that person even remotely qualified for the job in the first place.- Photo Heathen
A good look at how the White House decided to go to war in Iraq, showing their sightlessness and lack of foresight, and showing their inhumanity and lack of compassion for the human lives caught up in a war. Also highlights again the US arrogance and stupidity, how US inaction, not halting the looting and rioting, turned so many Iraqis against us and fueled what it then labeled as insurgecy. I continue to pray for my county. This war was not the American people's wish. Our leaders have failed us horribly. They have taken us back to Vietnam. And it is bankruting our country. Good information, seems thorough.
- VJ Purplequeen
No End in Sight is one of the best documentarys available on the Iraq War. It manages to balance being fairly in depth with a broader sense of what went wrong. It doesnt focus in on one aspect close enough to lose focus or ignore many other relevant topics. It of course can only go so deep in the time space allotted, but it does very well. Unlike films like Uncovered, which focuses on going so in depth it sacrifices the big picture, or Fahrenheit 9/11, which is too sprawling to ever come to a solid point. Great interviews with important officials and a solid blend of stock footage make the film visually engaging and not just a series of talking heads. No End in Sight is one of the best docs made yet, essential viewing for anyone concerned about the War in Iraq, on either side of the debate.
- Dlukenelson
This is not just another series of personal attacks as so many other political documentaries have been recently. Instead, this incriminating documentary makes its convincing case against the current administration with interviews of former Bush officials, journalists, former soldiers and others. Politically damning, this is likely to anger the average American but it's also a message to be studied by anyone that cares about the future of this country.
- Creeper
"No End In Sight" skips over the well-documented deceptive marketing of the Iraq war, to concentrate on how we fumbled the peace, after swift military victory. Once Bush suited up for his "Mission Accomplished" photo-op, the management of post-war Iraq was left to Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bremer; this doc shows how their missteps squandered what little good will we earned by turning out Saddam, and guaranteed fiasco. The errors were many, but the largest was no doubt the liquidation of Iraq's security forces, creating a band of 500,000 armed men with neither employment nor prospect of employment, at a time when the country was in desperate need of security that our occupying forces could not provide. The subsequent purge of all Baathists from government employment swelled these numbers further. In Iraq, each of these lost paychecks reduced a large extended family to destitution and desperation. Ferguson interviews the front-line staffers, many of whom had to hold the bag for the senior policymakers, most of whom declined the opportunity to be interviewed here. There are few surprises in this hindsight view of the first years of occupation (through Rumsfield's 2006 retirement), except for the extent to which senior policymakers could have and should have known the consequences of their catastrophic decisions.
- mwu 1628450
Hands down, the most balanced and non partisan accounting of how things went so badly in Iraq. The film very honestly shows the statements made by the architects of the war, followed by the truth of the situation. This is film is the best I have seen on this ongoing situation. If you know anyone who still thinks the war in Iraq is a good thing....please ask them to watch this film.
- Rogertick