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Originally Posted by TonyR
No End in Sight and Inside Job, both by Charles Ferguson, were very good. I'd give a slight nod to the former, but take your pick.
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I went with No End in Sight.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/337493
Thanks, it was horrific.
These weren't typical right-wing nutjobs, or easy-pickin targets from a Michael Moore film. Those interviewed were all Bush loyalists - people who once believed in the humanitarian aspect of the Iraq war, people Bush himself appointed, as well as generals, experts, etc.
I always looked at Cheney/Rumsfeld/Condoleezza as evil people, but I'm anti-war so no big surprise.
What I didn't know was how
stunningly incompetent they were at carrying out their war. To ignore the advice of generals, people on the ground, and experts in favor of their own crazy plans?
For example: 500,000 well armed, well trained young men ready to serve the new government. Disbanded, unemployed, left to starve. One clip of the riots that followed tells you where the muscle behind the insurgency came from.
The documentary is made up of interviews and war footage. It's as engaging as it is serious. It's not an easy film to watch, but only because it's frustrating watching pure corruption and incompetence. I searched to find a "rebuttal" or "debunk" to get the other point of view - as you find in response to most partisan documentaries - but there was none. I guess there's nothing to say when former Bush appointees are doing the talking.
