No End in Sight

This is a documentary about the failure on the part of the Bush administration to plan for the aftermath of the Iraq invasion of 2003.

The director, Charles Ferguson, doesn't openly attack the several players responsible for the Iraq debacle, thereby avoiding the risk of coming off sounding like a liberal peacenik à la Michael Moore.

All Ferguson does is present the evidence he gathered, evidence available to any investigator, and then sits back and lets us draw our conclusions.

Needless to say, the evidence strongly condemns the Bush administration for misstep after misstep, blunder after blunder, all brought on by either lack of experience on the part of the political appointees put in charge or lack of influence on the part of those few experts who cared for Iraq's future and genuinely wanted to help the country rebuild after Saddam was overturned.

Over and over, I found myself just shaking my head in disbelief for the way things turned out, even though there weren't very many surprises, considering most of what is described in the documentary has already been reported on by the media at some point during the war.

At the end, you walk out of the theater totally incredulous at the thought that someone so powerful as the President of the United States invaded a foreign country without a good reason and didn't plan for the aftermath.

Bush is really a failure of gargantuan proportions and his presidency will most certainly be remember as the most infamous ever.

Don't miss this film. It's a must-see.

Grade: 9