Missing in action: a postwar plan in Iraq
“Stuff happens.” Two words that should live in infamy.
They are Donald Rumsfeld's words, uttered by the then-secretary of Defense at a 2003 news conference about the violence and looting that was sweeping post-invasion Iraq. This is the same man who once said, “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war,” so “stuff happens” is no surprise.
Rumsfeld gets plenty of face time in Charles Ferguson's “No End in Sight,” the Sundance Film Festival documentary award winner that opened in theaters locally only two months ago and this week makes its debut on DVD.
Sober and sobering, “No End in Sight” takes not only Rumsfeld to task, but also the entire Iraq War team in the Bush administration, quarterbacked from the Oval Office with a backfield of Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and Rumsfeld himself.
They are Donald Rumsfeld's words, uttered by the then-secretary of Defense at a 2003 news conference about the violence and looting that was sweeping post-invasion Iraq. This is the same man who once said, “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war,” so “stuff happens” is no surprise.
Rumsfeld gets plenty of face time in Charles Ferguson's “No End in Sight,” the Sundance Film Festival documentary award winner that opened in theaters locally only two months ago and this week makes its debut on DVD.
Sober and sobering, “No End in Sight” takes not only Rumsfeld to task, but also the entire Iraq War team in the Bush administration, quarterbacked from the Oval Office with a backfield of Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and Rumsfeld himself.
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