No End in Sight

The trailer:



The report on CNN:



From a review by Michael Phillips:

"No End in Sight," which may be the best and saddest film of the year so far, has little to with the Michael Moore approach to documentary filmmaking. In other words, it comes off as factually air-tight and blessedly free of simplification. This devastating critique of the Iraq war can't, and won't, be easily picked apart by those who don't agree with its doleful conclusions. Over and over, we hear the voices of the people who knew more, and better, than their armchair-warrior superiors about what went wrong in the planning and prosecution of the Iraq regime change. The film is hardly even political; it's more about how not to run a business, and how any company, any administration, neglects the expertise of its employees at its own peril.

The distinguishing characteristics of "No End in Sight," one of the two or three indispensable documentaries yet made about the war and the only comprehensive one, have nothing to do with flash or cleverness. All writer and director Charles Ferguson has to offer is intelligence plus a measure of perspective, commodities in short supply when the Bush administration prepared, in its wobbly way, to alter history.
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The questions recur like terrible echoes. Why didn't the U.S. do anything to curb the post-invasion looting? Why was the 500,000-man Iraqi army disbanded, thereby stoking a Hydra-headed insurgency? Why do so many Americans still believe there was a link between Saddam Hussein and the events of Sept. 11, 2001? Barbara Bodine, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen and, briefly, the head of the post-invasion Baghdad operations, tells Ferguson there really was no planning to speak of, anywhere along the way. It was all finger-crossing and ignorance of the factions involved and blinkered neocon ideology. Those who never liked the smell of this war will find urgent, cogent analysis in "No End in Sight." Those who, for whatever reason, did believe in it will find the same, while experiencing this beautifully argued film as a tipping point.

I think it's clear that this film is must-viewing for all of us.