No End in Sight Page #8

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


hated the Green space.

It was going out whenever it could

to meet with the Iraqis...

to go to his hearths and to listen to his complaints...

and his opinions.

was saying to Dan Senor...

" They have a problem,

they do not speak with the Iraqis ".

Dan Senor, the spokesman

does not speak Arabic.

Almost no high control

was speaking Arabic.

...

between the 40, 50

70 more important officials.

We had regional experts

that had served in Iraq.

...

they did not take part in the initial phase...

after the invasion of Iraq

and the initial occupation...

so this skill got lost.

How did it finish his stage there.

- Mm...

- I understand...

that is a difficult topic.

should want.

Mm...

would say that it ended

was thinking...

and very much earlier

of what I had wanted.

I had liked being...

and to try to give everything...

Considering the frustrations and the limitations...

much was deserving

to be in this place...

and to try to do what we wanted to do.

her?

I know why. They said it to me.

Why?

It was difficult to treat...

and it was giving opinions...

that were going against the current

of the epoch in Baghdad.

Since Bremer appeared,

the new people were coming to us.

Newly adjusted as the school: do you know?

They had the secondary one...

from the autumn ... the previous spring.

Papi did a contribution to the campaign...

and the child has the opportunity to come...

and to live through a full trip

of diversion and adventure.

Dad's children, this way I was calling them...

and they were sitting down opposite to the door of Bremer

and they were not doing anything.

In my stay...

MANAGER OF ONG AND PROFESSOR

... in the Green space...

I met one of my students...

newly graduated.

said to me...

radiant of happiness...

" They have asked me to do...

" the plan of traffic for the city ".

I asked him if it was known something

of municipal planning...

said to me that not.

Newly gone out of the school...

and supervised by something quite complicated...

to say the least, and

seeing the traffic of Baghdad...

the need is obvious.

Almost all the officials

they had contracts of three months.

As soon as they were creating...

the suitable relations

with the Iraqis...

in 90 days, 100 days, 120 days,

they were going away to house...

and there is nothing worse than that

to direct an organization.

There was a preference...

SPECIALIST IN BUDGE CATEDRTICA

... much egg white of the Pentagon...

for that the companies

of the USA they were doing the work.

There were numerous cases

in that Iraqi contractors...

they proposed to do the same work...

for much less money...

that the contractors of the USA.

Ann and I had a different approach...

to that of many units of the coalition...

because we work

with the Iraqis.

,

it was with Americans...

THE FIRST LIEUTENANT, MARINATES

... and Iraqis, and the Iraqis

they had the same voice as we.

We were constructing our fortresses...

those of the army...

that was using a big contractor

of the USA, Parsons.

We were designing and constructing

our fortresses...

in approximately five months.

On having gone away, the fortresses of Parsons...

begun

one year before we come...

they were still not finished.

The fortresses of Seth Moulton

and Ann Gildroy they cost 200.000 dollars.

Those of Parsons cost

1200 million dollars.

The officials of the army

often they were going out to the street...

to spend the small quantity

of funds that they had...

for immediate action in,

let's say, to clean the streets...

to realize temporary progress

in the drainage system...

On having been finished...

this small quantity of money in that...

everything was relapsing into the CPA.

" We need this and this...

" for these projects, and it will cost so much ".

It was disappearing, simply it was disappearing.

" And my request? "

" What request? "

That was not stopping recuring.

for the reconstruction in October, 2003.

18.000 million dollars

that the Congress promised...

they were misinterpreted and were wasted...

if it went so far as to spend.

We will produce sufficient electricity...

so that in the whole Iraq there is...

service 24 hours of the day...

essential for his hopes of future.

There was fraud, corruption and squandering.

One year later, only 1.000 million

of dollars they had been invested in Iraq.

The normal people obtain electricity...

only two or three hours a day.

The water comes occasionally,

every two or three days.

the winter trembling,

wrapped in blankets...

because we have no fuel

for the heaters.

This way it is our life.

In May, 2003...

the United Nations

sent his best expert...

in reconstruction of postwar period

to help in the occupation of the USA.

He was a Brazilian diplomat

so-called Sergio Vieira de Mello.

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNO

Although they were not leaving that the UNO

it was making nothing important...

Kofi Annan said:
" I will send the best.

" If someone can leave well the UNO...

" this is Sergio Vieira de Mello ".

, I was his...

SPECIAL ADVISER OF THE UNO

... political principal adviser...

and we were together to Baghdad.

was speaking Arabic...

and it had experience working

in the region and others.

One of the best things

that Sergio did...

with hindsight the fact was that...

on having seen that the USA had shut itself up...

in the Green space

and it was not going out to the streets of Iraq...

Sergio created a structure in Iraq...

that was the opposite to the Green space.

Call it the Green Antiarea.

I hear the political leaders...

to say that we will meet every day.

We discuss often with the soldiers...

that were coming to the UNO to speak

with Sergio Vieira de Mello...

and they were asking him to come up...

that the CPA was supporting with.

You saw long lines

on the outside of the Green space...

but nobody heard his complaints.

On the contrary, the enclosure of the UNO

it was completely an open sea.

If you wanted to complain, the UNO

it was more than arranged...

to listen to you,

his mission...

these complaints to Bremer,

to the highest thing...

with the hope that they were doing something...

before the rebellion was becoming strong.

I meet with I often...

and my experience.

As soon as Bremer obtained

wanted of Sergio...

of the UNO...

it already did not have any more time

for the United Nations.

Through what Sergio lived...

there were two months

of being used, literally...

to come to certain segments

of the Iraqi society...

and, in his last month...

had to support

they neither that nor him were answering the phone.

political of detention...

to hood the prisoners,

there were topics that Sergio...

it was treating repeatedly with Bremer

and with general Snchez...

but Bremer was not interested in.

Three or four crucial months

after the fall of Baghdad...

two principal things

that the soldiers of the USA were doing, were...

to look for weapon of massive destruction

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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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