January 17, 2008

No End in Sight

So my latest Netflix rental was this documentary on the utter ineptitude of the Bush Administration and CPA in planning for and dealing with post-war Iraq. Yes, it deserves the acclaim it's received. And I'll be floored if it's not one of the Oscar nominees announced next Tuesday. A lot of these things can be tedious, but this one was very well done.

And actually pairing this with The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair would make for a really interesting class discussion, as the first deals with US political decision making, and the latter deals with the lives of some Iraqis affected by those decisions during the same time period. While I haven't seen it yet, throwing Gunner Palace into the mix might make it even better, as that story is told by US troops on the ground during this time period.

Oh, and Morris, No End in Sight reminds us that sometimes the president can't even be bothered to read one-page summaries of major reports issued by the National Intelligence Council (which predicted an unfolding of events of that eventually, sadly, happened). He apparently knows he's right and his experts are wrong, whether he reads their reports or not.

Posted by armand at January 17, 2008 07:41 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq | Movies


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