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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 08:39 PM
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This looks like an interesting little motion picture: No End in Sight
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http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/?utm_source=Huff%2Bpost&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=300x250&utm_campaign=NEIS

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 200 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 – the use of 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 did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come 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 think this decision to disband the Army came as a surprise to most of us…”
Q: What was your reaction?
“I thought we had just created a problem. We had a lot of out of work
soldiers.”
– our interview with Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State



NO END SIGHT alternates between U.S. policy decisions and Iraqi consequences, systematically dissecting the Bush Administration’s decisions. The consequences of those decisions now include 3,000 American deaths and 20,000 American wounded, Iraq on the brink of civil war, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths, the strengthening of Iran, the weakening of the U.S. military, and economic costs of over $2 trillion. It marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad’s Green Zone to understand for themselves what has become the disintegration of Iraq.

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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 08:48 PM
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1. Thank you for posting
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-18-07 11:28 PM
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 12:13 AM
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3. FREE SCREENING ‘No End In Sight’ for Iraq, San Fran & LA
If you live in California, watch a free screening of No End In Sight, the first film of its kind to chronicle how the U.S. recklessly allowed Iraq to descend into chaos and civil war. RSVP today if you are in San Francisco on July 19 or Los Angeles on July 24.


ThinkProgres.org has this up and you can watch the trailer


I posted this the other day....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1349056

Several DUers have signed up to attend. Hopefully they'll give us a report!

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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 12:50 AM
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4. I wish I was in San Francisco tonight.
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 02:21 AM
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5. Me too,
Hopefully it will come to town. It looks as though it is a well documented movie...

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