BEST DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE, ACADEMY AWARDS 2007--Special Jury Prize, Sundance 2007-- Best Documentary, New York Film Critics Circle 2007-- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc. 2007-- Best Documentary, San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2007-- Best Documentary, Alliance of Women Journalists 2007 -- Best Documentary, Florida Film Critics 2007 -- Best Documentary, Toronto Film Critics, 2007 -- Best Documentary Nomination, Broadcast Film Critics Association 2007-- Best Documentary, Online Film Critics Society 2007
Festivals
Sundance 2007; Silverdocs / AFI 2007
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Book Release Announcement: No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent Into Chaos by Charles Ferguson - Available January 28th, 2008, $17.95
Summary: The first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality.
http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586486082
About me: The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, "No End In Sight" is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. "No End In Sight" examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? "No End In Sight" dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
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