No End in Sight Page #2

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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when general Schwartzkopf

it allowed Saddam Hussein...

to use the helicopters of combat...

to massacre the rebels,

men, women and children.

The armistice of 1991

it is required that Iraq should disarm itself...

but Saddam refuses.

It results in the fall

of the economy of Iraq...

for the sequestration of the UNO

that comes into force in 1993...

and that continues during

Clinton's administration.

The favored elite

does not suffer it...

but the Iraqis of on foot

they rush to the extreme poverty...

to the Islamic fundamentalism.

In 1993, when

George Bush senior visits Kuwait...

Saddam tries to murder it.

Seven years later, his son

he is elected a president of the USA.

When you see the same architects

of political those...

on the one hand, speaking on...

to straighten up what went out badly in 1991...

to finish what they began...

it was tantalizing to think

that had learned something.

Saddam Hussein and his children

they must leave Iraq in 48 hours.

A denial

it would result in military conflict...

beginning it is we who will decide.

PRESIDENTIAL BOARD

OF NATIONAL SAFETY NUMBER 24

If the beginning wants to be dated

of the disaster of the postwar period of Iraq...

it would have to be January 20, 2003...

when Bush signed without, for what I know...

JOURNALIST AND WRITER

discussion

in the White House or the administration...

the presidential board

of national safety number 24...

that was granting the control of Iraq

to the Pentagon after the war.

This document did of Donald Rumsfeld...

in the postwar period of Iraq.

This war was conceived

number of persons...

THE DIRECTOR OF THE GROUP

OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS

... of the administration of Bush.

They had a vision

very ingenuous of what it was Iraq...

and of what the Iraqis

.

On having formulated his opinion

on Iraq after the fall of Saddam...

in a man called Ahmed Chalabi.

From 1992,

Chalabi had been a president...

of the National Iraqi Congress, or CNI.

was not waking up confidence in general...

since Chalabi had been a reprobate

in Jordan for bank fraud.

The intelligence considered

his slightly trustworthy information...

or even fraudulent.

Ideally,

they were lying...

and at the worst, they were inciting.

If it was a source of the CNI...

the analysts were receiving it skeptics.

But it was not like that

for the creators of political.

Chalabi assured that the postwar period of Iraq...

it would be pro American

and easy to stabilize...

especially,

if the proper Chalabi was to the control.

So the plan was, in extract...

to be approximately three or four months...

to restore a government

exiles' compound...

with Ahmed Chalabi to the head...

and, then, in August or September, 2003...

to begin the drastic one

reduction of the troops.

Larry Di Rita communicated to us

in a circular letter...

that at the end of August, 2003...

SPOKESMAN DE DEFENSA

... only they would stay

in Iraq from 25.000 to 30.000 troops.

I heard it saying it

in the persons' fourth full house...

to my companions...

says.

" It is physically impossible ".

The Future project of Iraq

...

a study of 13 volumes

on the postwar period of Iraq...

it was ignored by the Pentagon.

It was debated very much.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM

OF NATIONAL SAFETY

There were tons of volumes

on how should we do it.

Almost not at all it integrated...

in the idea of the Pentagon.

My frustration...

CHIEF OF STAFF:

OF BREAD STICK POWELL

... and that of the secretary they grew...

on having seen our elegant planning,

our detailed planning...

completely discarded...

and to the people who had realized it...

completely discarded...

so that the most loyal people...

of the visions

of the republican party...

they could be renowned

for key positions in Iraq.

THE WAR:

In this moment, the forces

of the coalition and those of EE.UU...

they begin

the military operations...

to disarm Iraq, to liberate his people...

and to defend to the world of a serious danger.

believed...

that was an important work

was thinking...

LIEUTENANT OF THE MARINA

that would not be happy in the life...

... knowing that another people

it had fought for my freedom.

I joined the army for...

OF the USA.

... to support to my country...

and I thought that it was slightly positive.

It was an honor...

GUNNER OF the USA.

... to go out to help

to my welded partners...

to do what they say to us

that it is necessary to do...

perhaps to demolish a dictator...

to restore a democracy.

was wishing it to begin

the war because it was...

the only beam of hope that it had...

and when it happened,

it was very moved.

slowly...

but they would go towards one better future.

Thank you, mister Bush.

We like very much mister Bush!

Not, not to Saddam! Yes, yes to Bush!

Not, not to Saddam! Yes, yes to Bush!

Look what it has done,

look what it has done to him to Iraq!

It was a hopeful place,

frightened, noisy, confused...

quite mixed.

saw children with balaclava

that " FBI " were saying...

JOURNALIST IN BAGHDAD

FROM APRIL 15, 2003

... and the thumbs were raising me.

And other young boys...

possibly, fedayines of civil...

they were looking at me with hardness...

and they were evaluating me...

of the car.

The Iraqis were hoping to see...

JOURNALIST AND WRITER

IN BAGHDAD FROM JULY, 2003

... what was going to bear them.

had not been

pushed back by the Iraqis.

Not to Saddam, not to Saddam!

I have seen the people receiving

the troops of the coalition...

because we think that

everything it was planned, prepared.

There they have it.

During the Second World war,

the EE.UU...

they started gliding

the occupation of Germany...

two years earlier...

but the administration of Bush

it did not create the organization...

that would take charge

of the occupation of Iraq...

up to 60 days before the invasion.

The ORHA, the office

for the reconstruction...

and the humanitarian aid...

was reporting directly

to the secretary of defender Rumsfeld.

They called me from the office of the secretary

of defense at the end of January.

They wanted that I was taking charge...

MANAGER ORHA:

... of humanitarian matters.

Jay Garner, general of the retired army,

it was chosen to direct the ORHA.

In the first War of the Gulf,

it had directed 22.000 soldiers...

in humanitarian operations...

in the Kurdish area of the north of Iraq.

would take charge of the whole country.

Was he considered prepared to direct Iraq?

I do not believe that never

we were prepared...

To prepare would take us years

a company of this magnitude.

Nobody had years.

They called me cellular me.

SUPERVISED BY BAGHDAD FOR the USA.

...

saying to me

that Rich Armitage was looking for me...

wanted that it was returning

to Washington immediately.

Ambassadress Barbara Bodine

it put itself supervised by Baghdad...

only three weeks before the war.

She was a diplomatic official

with experience...

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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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