No End in Sight REVIEW by Roger Ebert (the last paragraph says it all.)

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No End in Sight
Looking back on the path to war

Release Date: 2007

Ebert Rating:

Aug 10, 2007

by Roger Ebert

Remember the scene in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would like them to see "No End in Sight," the story of how we were led into that war, and more than 3,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of other lives were destroyed.

They might find the film of particular interest because they would know so many of the people appearing in it. This is not a documentary filled with anti-war activists or sitting ducks for Michael Moore. Most of the people in the film were important to the Bush administration. They had top government or military jobs, they had responsibility in Iraq or Washington, they implemented policy, they filed reports, they labored faithfully in service of U.S. foreign policy and then they left the government. Some jumped, some were pushed. They all feel disillusioned about the war and the way the White House refused to listen to them about it.

The subjects in this film now feel that American policy in Iraq was flawed from the start, that obvious measures were not taken, that sane advice was disregarded, that lies were told and believed, and that advice from people on the ground was overruled by a cabal of neo-con goofballs who seemed to form a wall around the president.

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Although Bush and the war continue to sink in the polls, I know from some readers that they still support both. That is their right. And if they are so sure they are right, let more young men and women die or be maimed. I doubt if they will be willing to see this film, which further documents an administration playing its private war games. No, I am distinctly not comparing anyone to Hitler, but I cannot help being reminded of the stories of him in his Berlin bunker, moving nonexistent troops on a map, and issuing orders to dead generals.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/REVIEWS/708090301

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[SteppingRazor]

1. Hey! Roger Ebert ripped me off!

"I couldn't help thinking of Hitler's final days, staring at maps in a bunker, issuing orders for nonexistant army divisions to advance, demanding to speak to long-dead advisors, and if rumor is to be believed, copulating with his German Shepherd, Blondie, before he finally fed her cyanide."

http://blogs.southflorida.com/citylink_dansweeney/2007/06/breaking_godwins_law.html


OK, OK. Maybe Ebert just happened to have the same thought as me. But I prefer to think that he's a fan of my blog :P