No End in Sight Page #9

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:
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Year:
2007
102 min
$1,250,100
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and to Saddam Hussein.

The process of these searches...

doors below in the night...

intimidating the people,

taking them to Abu Ghraib...

doing detentions in mass,

it had a bitter effect.

We go! Forward!

We go! We go!

If you were Iraqi in military age...

in an area of operations

of the army of EE.UU...

it was very probable that they were arresting you...

possible insurgent.

Only for being a man

in military age in the area of operations.

In many occasions, on having removed...

to the Iraqi in military age of his family...

you take to the head of the family.

I have not anybody left,

I swear it for the life of Mahoma

it has not made bad at all.

Moan, my son, Amer!

Not only you anger to I,

but to all his family...

because it is possible that not only it supports

to his most nearby family.

When they heard the helicopters of EE.UU...

or the tanks of the USA for the streets...

they were getting up immediately...

although it was going to two o'clock in the morning...

and they were prepared for the detention.

Because for them,

even now, it is the normal thing.

There were attacks on

the proper American soldiers...

and they were answering to these attacks...

going out to look for the insurgents...

and on having tried to do that...

sometimes, they were arresting

to the wrong persons.

Even, sometimes, they were killing

to the wrong person.

After arresting someone,

they were tending to disappear...

in the prison military system of EE.UU...

during a lot of time without track.

His families did not know anything.

The army of the USA does not reveal...

the number of brave Iraqis

or arrested in Iraq from 2003.

It is difficult to understand

being.

They aim at you from the vehicles.

the car.

The Iraqis were not understanding

the instructions...

that were giving to them in the positions of control.

If they were approaching very rapidly, they were killing them.

Almost all the units

of the USA with that I was...

they were straining very much

in doing the correct thing...

and not to kill or to hurt nobody...

that did not want

or they will need to kill or to hurt.

But there is no doubt

of that the wars are chaotic...

and, this one in Iraq...

at this level of rebellion...

it is even worse.

One after other one, they were taking

decisions in the short term...

that, at the end of 2003...

they proved in a country

with an increasing rebellion.

HEAD OFFICE OF THE UNO IN BAGHDAD

ON AUGUST 19, 2003

On August 19, 2003,

an enormous bomb destroyed

the head office of the UNO in Baghdad

murdering 22 persons.

Between the dead persons,

the special envoy of the UNO in Iraq,

Sergio Vieira de Mello.

A truck done in Russia...

parked opposite to the window

of Sergio Vieira de Mello...

and the enormous one detonated

quantity of explosives.

The whole corner south-west

of the UNO it collapsed.

Sergio was still alive under the debris...

more than three hours

hoping that they should rescue it.

We lost many companions this day...

and I believe that it was the sign

of that slightly drastic...

it had happened in the country and of that

the rebellion had turned...

in very lethal and organized...

ready for a long struggle...

against the forces of the coalition.

In 2004, the relation between the army...

it had become untenable.

Here it are where to these mierditas...

stones to us.

Curse!

There you have it!

But we cannot use mortal force.

We cannot use mortal force.

Lump it!

Lump it you, mierdita!

that are going to work...

for the private contractors...

that take charge of big part

of the reconstruction...

because we do not have sufficient troops.

There are more than 45.000 contractors

deprived of the army in Iraq,

more than in no other war of the USA.

PARLIAMENTARIAN IRAQU

They have special custodies.

I do not know who are...

they have permission to shoot

to the people, as well as this way.

I have seen multitude of civil contractors...

especially violent...

and with few vision on what they do.

is a home-loving video

of a private military contractor in Iraq.

The music belongs to the original.

Saddam hurt us very much, it is true.

It is something that does not forget.

But what has come

it is worse than Saddam.

When a problem like that is created,

it is necessary to arrange it or to go away.

They should not leave it this way.

Arrange it or out.

In any moment,

when it has an opportunity...

I will face to the United States.

With weapon?

Of any form, with or without weapon.

Did it already face them?

Perhaps.

At the beginning of 2004, Faluya...

a city of 350.000 inhabitants

to the west of Baghdad...

it had turned into the center

of the rebellion sun.

On March 31, 2004...

four military contractors

of the USA they were murdered...

and his bodies were

dragged by the streets...

for victorious multitudes.

At the beginning of 2004...

the Council of National Intelligence...

a powerful committee of 12 persons...

placed at the head of the community

of intelligence of EE.UU...

it realized several evaluations

of the increasing rebellion...

to the White House...

and to tall officials of the government.

We register

the growth of the rebellion.

It was growing and was not limiting itself

to foreign combatants...

or to baazistas coldness.

What we call a rebellion...

it is a deep-rooted fact

of multiple facets.

OFFICIAL OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

FOR THE MIDDLE EAS Not only some rebels baazistas...

not only a few foreign extremists...

but rather it was reflecting

multiple motivations...

and frustrations...

between the proper Iraqis.

situation deteriorates...

on having weakened

...

and after the resentment grows

against the occupation of the USA.

The CIA...

it raised...

several cases...

in that the life

it could be the awful, normal...

and better.

The president had not read it...

not even the summary of a page

that so much cost us...

because we limited everything to only one page.

Did the president read not even the summary?

This way it is.

They only...

they were imagining the conditions.

How many people in Iraq estimate you...

ADVISER OF THE CPA FOR IRAQ

... what have they taken part in the rebellion?

At any level, if it is alone supporting...

providing secret storages...

possibly more than 100.000 persons.

Mosul, Iraq. On December 9, 2004

Two cars entered

in the district of Yarmouk.

There were Americans inside.

They all died, all.

In spite of the intensification

of the rebellion...

there were still no sufficient ones

armored cars...

for the soldiers of the USA in Iraq.

We had not even an armored car...

while we were in Iraq in 2003.

We went to Iraq in 2004...

...

in Kuwait...

that were like pieces

in the shape of doors without windows...

and a moon to test of bullets, that was quite.

If his vehicle

it had not been armored...

cuI believes that it would have been

the damage of the explosive?

I believe that it would have been mortal.

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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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