No End in Sight
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Movie Reviews of No End in Sight
Movie Review: Required Viewing for All Americans
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first film I've seen that explains how the Iraq War evolved into the nightmare we are witnessing today. The filmmaker systematicaly takes you through the initial invasion, occupation and destabilization of Iraq and its surrounding nations.
I wouldn't say that the film is completely objective. However, as the filmmaker interviews top government officials, the facts make a strong argument against how the Bush Administration handled the war from the very beginning. You also get perspectives from military officers who have been in the field, journalists on assignment in Iraq and various political figures involved. While the documentary isn't objective, the facts are hard to dismiss because it comes from numerous credible sources.
This movie was absolutely shocking to watch. It's difficult to decipher the news we watched because there is so much media "spin." This is one example of getting the straight answers about why were are involed in this ridiculous war.
Movie Review: Truth and Consequences
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been on a steady diet of Frontline docs, Why We Fight, and other films and magazine articles about this war. The way I look at this documentary is that it's a summary of everything I already knew, plus a little bit more. It goes deeper than other docs go and is more grounded in solid facts.
Why wasn't security a bigger issue? Why wasn't martial law declared, which would have been legal under UN charters and easy for the forces, however few there were, to be carried out? Why was the Iraqi army disolved? Questions like this are discussed.
Campbell Scott's narration does just what it should. It doesn't offer up opinions, the people on the screens do that job beautifully. It transitions and explains things in facts, events, and terms that the people on the screen can't do.
It's amazing at the arrogance of some of the policy makers, but, at this point, that should be a obvious point to make.
Amazing, dizziness enducing!
Movie Review: Bush's folly
Summary: 5 Stars
Charles H. Ferguson has made an extraordinary documentary about the debacle in Iraq. He makes the point that government officials with experience in the country whose assessments and recommendations contradicted the right-wing orthodoxy of Bush's inner circle, who had little or no firsthand knowledge of Iraq, were routinely ignored by the administration. Ferguson doesn't interview academics and ideologues whom one might expect to take an anti-Bush stance. Many of his subjects are former loyalists who were disillusioned by the incompetence they witnessed. The way the statements of policy makers directly contradicted those of policy implementers such as General Jay Garner, former deputy secretary of the State Department Richard Armitage, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council Robert Hutchings, and Colin Powell's former chief of staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, among others, was enough to make me want to cry.Movie Review: Best Iraq Documentary to Date
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the documentaries I've watched and books I've read that chronicle or criticize the Iraq war, this is hand's down the best. Ferguson presents a clear case that this war has been a fiasco from the beginning, and the US has created a real mess in the region. The level of ineptitude with our senior DoD leaders is apparent throughout the film. Ferguson interviews many officials with inside knowledge of the war's planning and conduct. The information presented here is consistent with other accounts of the war, to include Bob Woodward's 'State of Denial'--probably the best book on the same subject.
This is a very interesting film to see right now, especially as we here some Presidential candidates tout the successes of the surge and their exaggerated claim that we're winning. If you take a closer look, you can see the problem's much deeper than Senator McCain would lead you to believe.
Movie Review: A Military Mom's View...
Summary: 5 Stars
I literally cried after I picked my jaw up off the floor as I watched this excellent fact-based documentary. I knew Bush mishandled the war, but never to this extent. This is simply appalling. As the very brave and articulate Marine commented at the end, America can do better than this. America IS better than this! How these government officials could not be held accountable for this debacle of a war is beyond me. The very WORST part of this? All the sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers who died in this war, deaths that very well may have been prevented had this war been handled properly. It scares me to death that my son has to be a part of this war, a war that should have been over years ago. The cost of $1.86 trillion dollars does not COMPARE with the cost of LIVES that this war has taken. May God forgive these government officials, because I don't think I ever will...