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Post by sciwriter on Jan 27, 2007 23:18:20 GMT -7
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Post by hollister on Jan 28, 2007 8:12:20 GMT -7
Another movie shown at Sundance is getting some buzz as a follow-up to Jarecki's film
...there are a couple of powerful and demanding documentaries here I'd be remiss not to mention. Timeliest of these is Charles Ferguson's "No End in Sight," a systematic and rigorous history of the Iraq war to date. An MIT Ph.D. and onetime Silicon Valley pioneer (he wrote the Internet start-up memoir "High Stakes, No Prisoners"), Ferguson has no previous experience as a filmmaker. But this piercing and unbiased account of all the stupidity, venality and small-mindedness that created our nation's latest foreign policy disaster combines hardheaded journalism and a tragic sensibility.
This is no left-wing screed; Ferguson himself says he was initially optimistic about America's foray into Iraq. His interviewees include former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, retired Gen. Jay Garner (the first coalition governor of Iraq) and the principal author of the 2004 National Intelligence Estimate, which tried to warn the Bush administration about the bottomless, nightmarish money pit that lay ahead. That was the document described by George W. Bush as "guesswork," even though (its authors say) the president had not read it or even seen it.
Ferguson synthesizes existing footage and his own interviews and original research -- he spent several weeks in Iraq, working under armed guard -- to create a portrait of an ideologically driven administration that conducted a war with disastrous incompetence, in which every bad decision was followed by another one. In dissolving the Iraqi military, firing most of the Baathist bureaucracy and allowing public buildings to be looted to the bare walls, Ferguson suggests, the Americans set themselves on a course toward inevitable humiliation. This is the film those stubborn Bush supporters in your family need to see.
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Post by bescheid on Jan 28, 2007 8:40:39 GMT -7
J.J. Would by chance this be the exact subject you are referring to as {Why We Fight?} www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/eugene-jarecki.shtmlWhat is your impression of the words of the past, Dwight Eisenhower and his {Military Industrial-Congressional Complex?} I mean nothing in the question, but only that of inquiry as a foundation to learning. Charles
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Post by hollister on Jan 28, 2007 11:42:06 GMT -7
I thought this was pretty interesting. tinyurl.com/2ryjs3What they have done is look at GW's State of the Union addresses and compared the words used in the speeches according to frequency and emphasis. It graphically shows you changes over the years and issues that have stayed the prominent. Like I said I thought it was interesting. Some words (Iraq, terrorism ect...) did not surprise me - others did.
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