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DESCRIPTION:NO END IN SIGHT \n\nThis documentary is the most thorough, clear-minded 
 analysis of failed U.S. policy put to film yet. It rightfully lays the 
 causes for Iraq's degeneration into anarchy and guerilla war at the feet of 
 those charged with running our country. None of the revelations in this 
 film are hysterical; indeed, the sense of measured frustration from all 
 interviewees is intensified by narrator Campbell Scott's soft delivery of a 
 litany of outrageous missteps. A range of insightful insiders, analysts, 
 soldiers, civilians, and journalists come together under Charles Ferguson's 
 direction in a devastating portrait of expert advice brushed aside because 
 it's not in keeping with official policies based on mindsets so far from 
 reality as to be laughable -- if the consequences weren't so deadly to the 
 Iraqi people and American soldiers and so debilitating to the international 
 standing of the U.S. One misstep of note in the film is Paul Bremer's 
 woeful installation in Iraq as Administrator of the Coalition Provisional 
 Authority. Bremer, at the behest of Cheney and Rumsfeld, issued several 
 sweeping proclamations (such as de-Ba'athification of the government and 
 the dissolution of the Iraqi Army) that undercut and ignored the careful 
 planning and essential knowledge and analyses of those who, despite being 
 understaffed and ill-equipped, had been setting the stage to integrate the 
 Iraqi people themselves, civilian or soldier, into the reclamation of the 
 country before its accelerating devolution into insurgency and lawlessness 
 could take hold. The contrapuntal voices of informed journalists and 
 authors; the matter-of-fact personal experiences of outraged innocent 
 Iraqis; and the angry, sometimes broken words of members of the military on 
 the ground deepen the view of a willfully mishandled situation that has 
 deteriorated into a morass where resentment and vengeance breed. \n\nBefore 
 and after the film, everyone's invited to indulge in our Humanist Tea House 
 \n\n$5 donations are accepted \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/06/18490920.php
SUMMARY:No End in Sight
LOCATION:Humanist Hall \n390 27th Street \nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway, below Pill Hill \nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/06/18490920.php
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