"Chalabi asserted that post-war Iraq would be pro-American and easily stabilized, particularly if Chalabi himself was in charge."
No End in Sight is a 2007 American documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq. The directorial debut of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson, it premiered on January 22, 2007, at the Sundance Film Festival and opened in its first two theaters in the United States on July 27, 2007. By December of that year, it had a theatrical gross of $1.4 million. The film was
"When you see the same architects of those policies... on the one hand, talking about getting right what they had gotten wrong, back in 1991, you know... finishing the job. I was tempting to say, well... maybe theyve learned."
"The north and the west parts are controlled by the insurgents."
"I joined the army to ah... support my country...and ah... thought it was a good thang to do, ya know..."
"This is what it is. This is how we live it. This is how we see it. This is how we smell it and feel it. Its not a situation that you can say, "Lets try this. It will help. Lets try this, it will help." No, its not."
"[Archival footage] We dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
"The Iran-Iraq war ends in stalemate in 1988. In 1990, Saddam invades Kuwait. A US lead coalition expelled him... in a war masterminded by Dick Cheney, then Secretary of Defense... Paul Wolfowitz, then [[w:Under Secretary of Defense for Policy|"