Charles Ferguson’s Iraq War documentary No End in Sight won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
With the growing buzz, it’s a good bet that it will soon be playing at a theater near you.
In the meantime, check out this press conference that was held at Sundance, featuring key figures from the movie. It’s in three parts, with money quotes below:
Part 1. Lt. Seth Moulton:
The looting was going around all around us. And there’s this mistaken perception that the marines and soldiers in Baghdad couldn’t have done something to stop it. In truth, we were simply told not to be involved. We absolutely could have stopped the looting.Part 2. Lawrence Wilkerson:
I fault the Congress of the United States majorly to this point, to the November 7 elections at least, for not exercising its separate and equal branch of government oversight of this entire mess that is Iraq. And I believe that they should that they have called more and more military officers before their committee, the Senate Armed Services committee in particular, the house equivalent and examined them on what’s going on in Iraq. Instead, the Republicans sought to more or less cover for the President and for the Vice President. To my mind, that’s unconscionable. And since I’m a Republican, that makes me mad. My party is not the party that I became a member of some years ago.Part3. Charles Ferguson:
I don’t think, frankly, that anybody has any particularly good ideas about how to end this conflict soon or well. I think that now it’s primarily, not exclusively, but primarily a matter of avoiding the very worst, which could be far, far worse than things are now. No one really knows the number of people who have already been killed in the war, but the best estimate suggests that the Iraqi civilian death toll is now somewhere around a quarter of a million people. And if we’re not careful, if Iraq truly descends into complete, full-scale anarchy and civil war, which is quite possible, especially if other countries in the region become more assertive militarily and in supporting various factions in Iraq, we could see millions of people being killed.We’re not going to re-invade Iraq with a half-million men and women and depose the current government. The current government is a Shiite government, and it is increasingly independent of, and in fact increasingly hostile to the United States.










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