No End in Sight Page #10

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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Year:
2007
102 min
$1,250,100
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For what us do we have

that to poke in dumps...

looking for metal pieces...

and armored glazing

to reinforce our cars?

...

for us?

...

not of money.

It is not a question,

on the part of the army, desire...

it is a question

of production and aptitude to achieve it.

There are factories of cars

that close in the USA.

I am not an expert in factories...

but reutilizarlas

to produce armored cars...

it should not be difficult.

You go to the war with the army that you have...

and the one that you would like to have,

or you would wish later.

THE THINGS CRUMBLE

In November, 2004,

the Pentagon decided to attack Faluya...

to recover the city

of the rebellion sun.

350.000 citizens were warned

of Faluya that were leaving the city.

The battle destroyed 70 % of the city...

leaving 150.000 homeless.

In spite of the intense combats,

many insurgents escape.

40 marines turn out to be dead.

While the army of the USA.

it was worrying about Faluya...

the militias chitas

they were taking possession of the south of Iraq.

There is neither an army nor a multitude...

of hundreds of persons...

trying to demolish or to change the situation.

In August, 2004...

the holy city of Nayaf

it is controlled by the Army of Mahdi...

the militia chita led

for Muqtada to the-Sadr.

Seth's section faced

to the militia of Muqtada to the-Sadr.

...

that we substitute it was...

that almost quite in Nayaf was very pacific.

Except 3.000 men of the militia...

that occupy the center of the city.

The bullets were flying, the mortars were falling down.

My section was the first one

.

We take positions

with the police of Iraq...

and we defended her from the militia.

But until ends of August...

we did not do a large-scale assault...

city of Nayaf

and we recover her.

To Muqtada to the-Sadr

was allowed to escape unharmed.

If the democracy

it does not help the Iraqi people...

the people will say:

" To the devil with the democracy.

" We need a strong man ".

And I see that this man is on having fallen down...

and the name of to the-Sadr is Muqtada.

I believe that it is not the best election

as future leader of Iraq.

It took part in the deliberations...

on if capturing

or to kill Muqtada to the-Sadr?

Yes, this way it is.

We were considering it a troublemaker...

and a source of problems?

Certainly, we wanted to arrest it.

Everything turns concerning the matter

of the force of the troops.

The army did not have to relax...

of his principal mission...

to begin what would have been

a battle cuts...

although difficult, and surely bloody...

and this is what was decided in the end.

After the elections in Iraq,

on December 15, 2005...

Alliance...

with the party of Muqtada to the-Sadr

as principal participant...

it occupied almost the half of the benches

in the central government of Iraq.

It is not easy for a marine that someone...

and his militia murdered

to some of my friends...

and to see it rising in the politics of Iraq...

it is frustrating.

Another group chita

of the alliance of Sadr it is SCIRI...

for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

The leaders of the SCIRI

they lived through 20 years in Iran...

and they are, often, pro Iranian.

These groups chitas...

that sometimes fight against them themselves...

they are allied politically

against the groups sunes.

The Army of Mahdi de Muqtada to the-Sadr...

it continues the clashes

with the forces of the USA.

The level of activity that is seen today...

from a point

of military sight it will diminish.

I believe that it is the last breath

of the rebellion, if they allow it to me.

When secretary Rumsfeld

and the vice-president Cheney...

they commented that the rebellion

it was drooping...

that were alone a few rebels...

you knew that the estimation

of the intelligence...

was it already indicating that they were wrong?

It had gone to Iraq eight times...

knew the facts on the area.

They will have to speak and judged...

for his words and actions...

but I knew what the facts were.

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld

they refused to be interviewed.

At the beginning of 2005,

the administration began little by little...

to correct some of his errors.

It accelerated the training

of the Iraqi army...

and it named a Moslem diplomat...

Zalmay Khalilzad, like ambassador.

In June, 2006...

ambassador Khalilzad sent

a cable with bad predictions...

to Condoleezza Rice.

The Iraqis of the embassy...

they were not saying to his families

where were they working...

for fear of being murdered.

if the Americans were going away.

were preparing themselves

for your own sequestrations.

Six months later...

the day after the republicans

they were losing the control of the Congress...

the president Bush announces

the resignation of Rumsfeld.

The new secretary of Defense,

Robert Gates...

he is a pragmatist that

has criticized the war privately.

I do changes

in the secretariat of Defense...

to give a new perspective

on how obtaining anything...

that almost we all wish, victory.

THE CHAOS:

When Rumsfeld is replaced...

Iraq is out of control.

The country is every time

more dominated by militias...

insurgents, criminals and commanders.

The mixed areas are purged

in ethnic purges.

The militias chitas

they have infiltrated into the police...

using them for sectarian slaughters.

The sequestrations and the violent deaths...

they come to several hundreds per day.

They kidnapped them on the market...

and they executed them.

They executed them for being sunes.

There are many types of militia.

The militia of Mahdi...

MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ

... the militia of Badr...

there are many militias in this country.

They all are very democratic...

to arrest and to kill the people.

The safety is the awful

in many quarters...

with the permanent threat

of cars bomb and home-loving explosives.

A car bomb exploited just there.

I was here, my father here

and my brother there.

The explosion killed my brother.

.

Cars bomb,

home-loving explosives, sequestrations...

There are a lot of ways of dying.

of gangsters to obtain money.

They kidnapped a child opposite to the hotel...

a car stopped, seized the child and went away.

They ask the parents for a rescue...

that they will have to obtain in one week.

A few sequestrations are not alone,

they are hundred of them...

ADVISER OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR DE IRAQ

... and it is overwhelming.

Where did they kidnap them?

They took them of his shops,

to the four.

We went to the office of Sadr

to ask him and to request him...

but they said that they were not they.

There is a persons' avalanche...

asking for help or...

or that soon stop asking for help.

Why to denounce the police?

One, we do not trust in them.

Two, perhaps they commit the crimes.

His uniforms were proliferating

for all places.

There are many elements of looting...

for safety services.

They arrest the people due to many sources.

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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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