A New Film Exposing the Bush Adventure: No End In Sight

Looks like a great documentary. Though it's about five years to late or maybe it's five years early.It takes about ten years for the Masses to except or comprehend the truth.

To bad we are chained to them. The masses are the perfect victim.


"A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

-Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

-Edward P. Tryon

.......... we're f%#ked.

Did you happen to catch Saturday night on ABC's four part series "Masters of Science Fiction" (an studio exec axed the rest of the series)? It's theme was anti-war but that's all I can reveal -- it's from a Nebula Award winning short story. From The Hollywood Reporter:

First up on Saturday is "A Clean Escape," with a teleplay by Sam Egan and direction from Rydell. Oh, and by the way, it just so happens that it stars Judy Davis and Sam Waterston (Oscar nominees both) in the futuristic John Kessel tale about a dying doctor (Davis) who goes to great lengths to uncover why a patient of hers (Waterston) can't remember the past 25 years of his life. It's smart and twisty and intense and superbly performed, with Rydell's directorial work lifting the piece to a whole other level.

David Denby Review from The New Yorker

There isn't much that's factually new in "No End in Sight," Charles Ferguson's extraordinary documentary about the American occupation of Iraq?-at least, not for people who have kept up with the best reporting on the war and have read such books as "Fiasco," by Thomas E. Ricks, and "The Assassins' Gate," by the New Yorker writer George Packer, who appears in the film. Yet we need to hear the story again and again, for no amount of rage and disbelief can turn what the Bush Administration did into someone else's problem. The occupation is our problem, a dead eagle hanging around our necks. Though the facts in "No End in Sight" are well known, the movie is still a classic.

Modest and attentive and quietly outraged, this collection of interviews, news footage, and narrated history gathers weight and strength and delivers, in chronological order, an overwhelming pattern of folly: In the run-up to the invasion of March, 2003, and then in the early months of the occupation, all the people who actually knew anything about Iraq and the Middle East?-anyone who had serious experience in military, intelligence, or reconstruction work?-were either ignored or dismissed by the Department of Defense, with White House backing. They were then replaced by ignorant and inexperienced ideologues who refused to hear what the knowledgeable told them. Ferguson establishes the disastrous thinking around such turning points as the decision not to stop the looting that followed the invasion; the de-Baathification of the professional classes of Iraq; and the disbanding of the Iraqi Army, which sent some half a million armed men into the streets. "No End in Sight" is an exposure of the psychopathology of power.

Ferguson earned a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T., but went into Web design, only to sell his company to Microsoft, in 1996. He is one of the new plutocrats (Andrew Jarecki, of "Capturing the Friedmans," is another) who unaccountably refused to buy a vineyard in the Napa Valley and instead turned to filmmaking. He paid for the movie himself?-it cost two million dollars?-and hired some of the best talent he could find: the cinematographer Antonio Rossi, the composer Peter Nashel, and the documentary producer Alex Gibney, who advised him to hold down the rhetoric and build up the interview subjects so that they become real characters. No better counsel has ever been given to a first-time director and writer. Despite the often gruesome subject, this is an exceptionally elegant-looking film, and it provides what can only be called sensuous rewards. It's necessary for us to see, and feel, how utterly torn up Baghdad and Falluja and other sites in Iraq are. And it's moving to see the faces and hear the voices of the losers in the policy wars, including former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who makes it clear, in his terse and guarded way, that he and his boss, Colin Powell, got exactly nowhere whenever they offered sane advice; General Jay Garner, the first American proconsul in Iraq, who was replaced by the fatuous L. Paul Bremer, and wishes that he had been able to fight harder against Bremer's decisions to disband the Iraqi military; and, most painfully, Colonel Paul Hughes, who was in touch with Iraqi officers commanding troops ready to maintain order in Baghdad, only to be shut down, from Washington, by Walter Slocombe, the senior adviser for national security and defense for the Coalition Provisional Authority. The madness continues: Slocombe, for example, still refuses, in an interview, to admit that the disbanding of the Army had anything to do with the insurgency. The bitterest revelation of "No End in Sight" is that the people who got it right are in agony, whereas the people who got it wrong are practically serene.

There is one thing about war. It creates a wave of creative vitality.

Music, painting, Documentary, movies, art.

Although it makes me a little sick to say that.

I gotta see this movie.

It creates a wave of a transitory business boom in what Eisenhower greatly feared -- the Military-Industrial Complex. It's not going to be an easy time going back to a peace time economy, but since this war is now the longest war the US has ever engaged in, when is the end in sight?

Is it really the longest war we ever had?

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7854412

It's really the third longest war, Vietnam being the longest, but it's symbolic now to deem it the longest war as it is going to easily last through Bush's administration and beyond.

"the ghosts of Vietnam had been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert."

-President George Bush (1991, after the Persian Gulf War)

He was laid to rest but it turns out he was just taking a nap.

The ghosts of Vietnam are all around us trying to holler "Boo!," but a fourth of the populace obviously doesn't believe in ghosts. I guess one of them would have to come up and bite them in the ass.