Review of No End in Sight (2007) by Daniel T — 21 Jul 2008

We dont need another film arguing that it's wrong to have gone to war. Whatever the false justification, the war has been fought and post-war Iraq is hell. Hundreds and thousands of people rendered homeless, the ones who have homes live with no electricity, intermittent water supplies, the threats of insurgents, wanton kidnappings, lootings, murders, ethnic cleansing, extensive unemployment and no means for many men to feed their families, the threats of foreign troops forcing their way into homes, capturing and indefinitely detaining any suspicious looking men they see.

A little price to pay for freedom and democracy? Whatever the Americans like to believe about their gift-paper wrapped offer of freedom & democracy, there is no freedom and democracy without the means to a safe, sustainable livelihood.

This film is not a Michael Moore-style emotional polemic - the facts, footage and interviews speak for themselves. And it is a disgusting insult to the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilan deaths that the Bush administration should continue to claim victory for the war.

The new President will soon take office, the US Army will withdraw in due time and the Americans will move on with their lives, leaving Iraq in shambles, with the inevitability of civil war, and another Sadaam in power.

Who should be taken to task for this course of events? And what is the price of Iraqi lives to pro-war, pro-Bush Americans? An irony that Paul Bremmer, appointed by Bush and whose arrogance, incompetence and lies led to much of today's debacle in Iraq, should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while the whole of Iraq burns in flames.