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“No End In Sight:” A PeaceBang Review

August 31, 2007 on 12:07 am | In Activism, TV/Movies/Theatre/Book Reviews |

This fine documentary by Charles Ferguson is more than a bit of a downer, but you should all go see it as fast as you can.

This isn’t a Michael Moore-ish production with lots of manipulative editing and sexy music — it’s mostly talking heads and footage from Iraq asking the question of how the U.S.’s mistakes led to the now out-of-control insurgency.

There is much to appreciate in this movie: its calm, chronological manner of presenting information from Bush administration insiders, its judicious usage of extremely upsetting footage, its intelligence and conscience. I think what I most appreciated, however, was that it showed the military in a very sympathetic light and put to rest once and for all that supporting the Bush administration is somehow “supporting the troops.”

Please see this film. Bring your friends. You will want to talk about it afterwards.

I really, really hope you’ll see this film, in case I didn’t make that clear enough.