No End in Sight

Synopsis: Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over: no provisional Iraqi government, de-Ba'athification, and disbanding the Iraqi armed services. The film has chapters (from History to Consequences), and the talking heads are reporters, academics, soldiers, military brass, and former Bush-administration officials, including several who were in Baghdad in 2003.
Genre: Documentary, War
Director(s): Charles Ferguson
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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NOT RATED
Year:
2007
102 min
$1,250,100
Website
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to his leadership, mister Presidente...

in this unincluded war

and stranger...

the first war of the XXIst century.

Good is not known, it did not understand itself well...

it to the people...

but I know with certain safety

that, with the time...

his contributions

they will be registered in the history.

NO END IN SIGH THANK YOU, the USA.

We condemn with hardness the criminal action

of the forces of the USA.

We are sorry about this catastrophe

to hands of the evil.

We demand the execution

of the unfaithful Wahabi

that receive support of the USA.

They have been arrested

and admitted his guilt

opposite to the presents.

We demand his execution.

On May 1, 2003,

the president George W. Bush...

declared a high place in the operations

said...

" In the war of Iraq, the USA.

and our Allied Forces have prevailed ".

Four years later, after 3.000 dead persons...

and 20.000 American injured men,

Iraq has disintegrated in the chaos.

Baghdad suffers from ten

to fifteen bombings a day...

ADVISER OF IRAQ IN THE OCCUPATION

... perhaps 50 deceased in act of service...

but I suspect

that about that does not speak to himself very much.

Probably, only I came to us

a third of what happens actually.

Million Iraqis

they have no drinking water...

treatment of residual waters

not even electricity from the invasion.

Baghdad, with six million inhabitants...

she has been submitted to a curfew

from March, 2006.

More than three million Iraqis

they have fled to the nearby countries.

of civil deaths it promotes 600.000.

Those who die are lucky...

IRAQI JOURNALIST IN the USA.

but those who live, are dead in life.

The west and the north of Iraq

it is controlled by the insurgents.

MANAGER IN BAGHDAD

The rest of Iraq

it is controlled by the militias.

Two Moslem principal groups,

the majority chita and the minority sun...

they are more and more conflicting.

They executed them for being sunes.

We were living together up to today.

It is an Iranian wave against us.

An Iranian wave.

We are Moslem. How is it possible?

They say that they are the Army of Mahdi.

Is this what this army does?

Look what it has obtained.

, that see his face.

From January, 2003 until January, 2005...

I was a president

of the National Council of Intelligence.

We write the first estimation

of rebellion in Iraq.

It was bad news.

It was presenting situations

bad, worse and the awful.

The president corrected it of guesswork

of press...

corrected it of insecurity

and opposition to the government.

What I gave to understand

the fact was that the president had not read it.

This is the history

of the invasion of Iraq for the USA.

In that many persons

they tried to save a nation.

On September 11, 2001 it was

a beautiful clear and clear day.

It was returning of the hairdressing salon of the pentagon...

THE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC POLITICS

for my office

a glance to the TV set...

.

SAFETY CHAMBER:

OF THE PENTAGON:

We do not hear to smash to the plane,

at least, I did not hear it.

Suddenly,

it was as if the Earth was opened.

I saw the fire-ball and, I must say...

that, on having seen her, I thought that

it would not go out hence lively.

The plane had smashed

under our office area.

The office of budget...

where 38 persons died,

it was just below...

and the new center of control of the marina

it was two apartments further down.

There were no survivors

in these two sections.

Osama Bin Laden...

because another terrorist did not occur to me...

that could have organized something like that.

think it immediately?

Immediately.

One month after September 11,

The USA . invaded Afghanistan...

in search of Al Qaeda

and of Osama Bin Laden.

But before the war of Afghanistan,

some tall officials...

another target...

one that had not anything in common

with the attacks of 11S.

When the attack of the pentagon,

.

EXPERT ANALYST OF IRAQ

INTELLIGENCE OF DEFENSE

I suppose that the following thing that happened...

the fact was that they assigned to us to look

immediately a relation...

between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

I went to speak directly

with the group of antiterrorism...

with the analyst chief of Iraq.

The two met some days...

and we analyze all the historical reports

that we could find.

Was CuI his conclusion?

We conclude that there was no relation.

helps and protects terrorists,

including members of Al Qaeda.

We watch the participation

of Iraq in terrorist activities.

What I want to highlight today...

it is the connection potentially

much more sinister between Iraq...

and the terrorist network of Al Qaeda.

We do not want that of smoke of gun

pass to atomic cloud.

WRITER:

Iraq is full of vagrants...

they will put them in ships...

they will give them chemical biological weapon...

and they will order them flying

from the ships...

to attack the east coast of the USA.

It is a fantastic world.

I do not know what these people were smoking...

but it had to be of good quality.

politics

of George W. Bush...

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz...

they directed the administration

towards the war of Iraq.

Condolezza Rice accompanied them.

Colin Powell and Richard Armitage...

the only tall officials

with experience in combat...

they expressed his worries, but

they supported to the administration in public.

HISTORY:

The advisers of Bush

they were treating with Saddam Hussein...

since I was invading Iran in 1980...

in a brutal war that

it was paid by almost a million dead persons.

Iraq used chemical weapon...

against the military men

and the civil innocent Iranians.

Saddam invested million dollars...

in programs of biological weapon,

chemical and nuclear...

while it was murdering 300.000

of your own citizens.

But the administration of Reagan,

being afraid to Iran...

attended to Saddam with military intelligence

helps.

Donald Rumsfeld met

with Saddam in 1983.

Colin Powell was the adviser

of national safety of Reagan...

from 1987 to 1989.

The 80s were summed up in the horrible one

although developer documented...

WRITER Y CATEDRTICA

of 1987...

that was saying that human rights

and chemical separate weapon, eat...

our interests

those will be equipped with Iraq.

The war between Iran and Iraq

it remained in deadlock in 1988.

THE FIRST WAR OF THE GULF

In 1990, Saddam invades Kuwait.

A coalition guided by the USA.

expels it in a war...

planned by Dick Cheney,

the secretary of that time of defense...

Paul Wolfowitz,

the undersecretary of that time of defense...

and Colin Powell, the of that time one

president of the joint staff.

Bush senior incites the Iraqis

to a coup d'tat against Saddam.

the blood effusion...

...

they take the justice as his hand...

and demolish the dictator Saddam Hussein.

But when the chitas

of the south of Iraq they subset sail...

the administration stops

that Saddam squashes them.

14 of 18 Iraqi provinces...

AMBASSADOR DE IRAQ EN THE UNO

... the rebels were controlling them...

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Charles Ferguson

Charles Henry Ferguson (born March 24, 1955) is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007) and Inside Job (2010), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson is also a software entrepreneur, writer and authority in technology policy. more…

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