No End in Sight Page #11

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:
89
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
102 min
$1,250,100
Website
482 Views


Do not know who are.

False positions of control

the people...

to verify his identity

and to see if they are chitas...

, and then...

they kidnap them or kill them there same.

When I say goodbye of my husband...

I always believe that I will not return.

At the end of 2006,

Baghdad was a lawlessness.

The army of the USA.

it was controlling the Green space...

and the area of the airport of Baghdad.

The safety forces of Iraq

they were controlling the East and the south.

The militias sunes were controlling...

several quarters sunes important.

The Army of Mahdi de Muqtada to the-Sadr

it was dominating extensive areas...

including the enormous district chita

of the city of Sadr.

The militia chita rival of the SCIRI,

the Brigade Badr...

it was controlling the areas chitas rich.

The organizations of quarter

they were controlling many small areas.

Extensive areas were remaining without controlling.

CONSEQUENCES:

Of a realized study...

for the catedrtica

of Harvard Linda Bilmas...

and the winner of a nobel Joseph Stiglitz...

at the beginning of 2007, the USA there was

spent 379.000 million dollars...

directly in the war of Iraq.

The future operations are estimated

in approximately 389.000 million dollars.

The cost of the care to the veterans...

and the loss of productiveness

as that they serve in Iraq...

it costs 482.000 million dollars.

The cost of the demobilization

of the army...

that is finished six times

more rapidly of the normal thing...

it is 160.000 million dollars.

The increase of the price

of the oil due to the war...

it has cost to the USA.

450.000 million dollars.

cost of the war...

it is believed that it will reach

1,8 trillions of dollars.

I suffer...

migraines postraumticas...

and epilepsy postraumtica.

Sometimes, I have bad memories

of what it happened...

but I do not scare them.

emotionally well?

Sometimes, it is a little...

Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, not.

difficult meeting to treat with...

you know already...

what us happened to me

and to my partner. Sometimes.

The big cost concerned

to the disability of the veterans...

it is for these hundreds

of thousands of persons...

that they return and see

that cannot work...

earlier...

because there are no same that earlier.

What temperatures are reached here?

Yesterday we come to 48 grades.

- 48 grades?

- Yes.

The last contract

that signed with the government.

Many of the units go...

three periods of service...

and some of them do not see that the end approaches.

They believe that they will return for his fifth one...

the sixth, seventh period of service

before it finishes.

We do not have enough troops.

How us protegeremos

before a possible conflict in Pyongyang...

NORTH KOREA ANNOUNCES

NUCLEAR TESTS:

... a possible conflict with Iran...

other possible conflicts in the world...

if we have it quite overturned...

towards Iraq and Afghanistan?

It is curious, but Iran...

ASSISTANT OF THE SECRETARY

OF CLINTON'S DEFENSE

... in spite of our hate

...

he is the biggest beneficiary

of the war of Iraq.

We eliminate his enemy

historical for them...

and we put them to the head

of the War of the Gulf.

When you attend a civil war like that...

violent and disagreeable...

on 20 %

of the world supply of oil...

that it will affect with safety

to nearby countries...

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,

Syria, perhaps up to Egypt.

If Iraq disintegrates and turns

in a field of civil war...

it will look alike increasingly

to a small Afghanistan.

It are where they will shelter

.

If Iraq returns to

islamofascista...

that of the talibanes in Afghanistan...

we will have returned

on September 10, 2001...

only that to major scale...

and with thousands of million dollars

of oil at his disposal.

On having begun the reconstruction...

we were joking...

with that there were 500 ways of harming it...

and two or three of it to do well...

and what we did not understand...

the fact is that we were going to try

these 500 forms first.

Why were these errors committed?

I do not know it.

I do not have it nor designs. It is disconcerting.

The president Bush

it disappeared in combat...

in the planning of the postwar period.

It delegated in his vice-president

and in his secretary of Defense...

the control of these decisions.

Why, if he was the president of EE.UU...

it would use the military force

then to feign ignorance...

of, essentially,

the most important aspect...

period?

Who was in charge in this war?

I do not want to repeat the whole list.

The president, the vice-president...

the secretary of Defense...

those who were surrounding them.

The Assessor of National Safety?

Skylight.

The vice-president?

Yes.

...

that was planning everything that thing about the war.

My error was not to try to take part any more...

in the process of planning.

I see already.

So that the dissolution of the army...

had not it been a surprise?

It might have fought a heap...

.

It would have lost, but it would have gone.

The system should be participativo...

and to include the people

that is ready to say...

" This has no sense, mister president.

" It is a bad idea ".

I do not believe that these processes

of capture of decisions...

they existed in the administration of Bush.

I was not sorry that I was taking part...

in no process of capture of decisions.

The administration never asked...

no opinion poll of the population

on Iraq before the war.

Nobody was interested in

what the community will think?

I believe that it was already quite determined...

from the beginning.

Any analysis that was doing...

on these matters...

it was ignored by the managers

of the capture of decisions.

The vice-president Cheney has done...

...

on the war that secretary Rumsfeld.

does it have his entire confidence?

- This way it is.

...?

The campaign was finished. This way it is.

- Will it continue here until you should go away?

- This way it is.

Some nights I do not sleep very well...

when I blame myself for not pressing any more...

that should have gone,

to stamp on the door and to say...

" Curse, listening.

" It was an error. It is necessary to rectify it ".

But I never had the opportunity...

and to stamp on a door...

with an ambassador that,

essentially, it is...

the czar of Iraq.

It is impossible that a colonel does that.

beyond the entry.

If the one that I spoke joins,

although it is in the most minimal thing...

to the criticism of this administration...

I will feel good.

I do not want to say that it should have been a cash...

but the fact is that I cannot keep on living like that.

We will take to the Iraqis meal...

and medicines...

and provisions...

and liberate.

Look at what contentments!

It sounds as if it us was going away

to fall down the world above.

General Garner and I we are

.

WE WAN AND WAGES

Now there is

Iraqi soldiers...

.

One was a " guerrilla war "...

the different one was a " rebellion ",

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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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