No End in Sight
- June 25th screening in Washington, DC
- July 19th screening in San Francisco, CA
- July 24th screening in Los Angeles, CA
June 25, 2007, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Washington, DC
The screening will start at 7:30 pm sharp.
Doors open at 7:00 pm.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.
RSVP Required. First come, first served.
Please let us know in advance if you have accessibility-related needs so that we can be sure to accommodate you.
Featured Panelists:
Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Col. Paul Hughes (Ret.), Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations,U.S. Institute for Peace
Charles Ferguson, Director, “NO END IN SIGHT”
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Introduction by:
Anna Soellner, Center for American Progress
Moderated by:
Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
"No End in Sight is a picture that really ought to be seen-by the widest possible audience, and soon." -Premiere magazine
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, "NO END IN SIGHT" is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts.
"NO END IN SIGHT" examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy-the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military-largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world, or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? "NO END IN SIGHT" dissects the people, issues, and facts behind the Bush administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
Resources
- Read a write-up of the event
- Watch a video op-ed from director Charles Ferguson (The New York Times)
Location
E Street Cinema
555 11th Street NW
(entrance on E Street between 10th and 11th Street)
Washington, DC 20004
Map & Directions
Nearest Metro: Accessible from the Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Yellow lines at the Metro Center and/or Gallery Place/Chinatown metro stops
Biographies
Ambassador Barbara Bodine was placed in charge of the city of Baghdad by the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. She left the position shortly after the invasion on May 11, 2003, not long after L. Paul Bremer was brought in to replace Retired General Jay Garner as head of ORHA. Bodine is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Yemen at the time of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000. While Deputy Chief of Mission to Kuwait, she was held hostage in the U.S. Embassy during the Iraq's invasion in 1990. In the course of her career, she has also served in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and several postings in Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Bodine worked on the staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and Senator Robert Dole. She has a B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts.
Colonel Paul Hughes was assigned to the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and later the Coalition Provisional Authority as director of the Strategic Policy Office. Col. Hughes was responsible for U.S. efforts to reorganize the Iraqi Army prior to the CPA's decision to disband the Iraqi Army entirely. Before going to Iraq, Col. Hughes had been a senior military fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. His work there focused on weapons of mass destruction and peacekeeping operations. He is a graduate of the Army Command&General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and the Army War College with two Master of Military Arts and Sciences degrees concentrating in Development and Training in Theater Operations. He received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Colorado.
Lawrence Wilkerson worked on the staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell, holding the position of chief of staff from August 2002 until Powell left office in 2005. Wilkerson was a longtime associate of Powell's, having first worked as his Deputy Executive Officer U.S. Army's Forces Command in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989. When Powell became Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Wilkerson followed as his special assistant. When Powell retired in 1993, Wilkerson went on to become deputy director and director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, VA. In 1997, Wilkerson retired from the military with the rank of Colonel and began working for Powell as a consultant and advisor. Since resigning as Powell's chief of staff, Wilkerson has frequently spoken critically of the Bush administration, notably of the influence of Vice President Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on foreign policy decisions. Wilkerson is a Vietnam veteran who has been stationed and participated in combat exercises in Korea, Japan, and Hawaii. He has served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College and holds two advanced degrees in International Relations and National Security Studies.
Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational Pictures, LLC, and director and producer of "NO END IN SIGHT: The American Occupation of Iraq," which is his first film. Ferguson was originally trained as a political scientist. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992 to1994, Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments. In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPag. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office. After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Brian Katulis is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. At the Center, his work examines U.S. national security policy in Middle East and democratization, with a focus on Iraq. Prior to joining the Center, Katulis lived and worked in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, including projects in Egypt, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. His previous experience includes work in the Near East and South Asian Directorate of the National Security Council and the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State during the Clinton administration. He has published articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Katulis received a graduate degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.Katulis also works with the Center for American Progress project, Middle East Progress.
NO END IN SIGHT opens on Friday, July 27.July 19, 2007, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
San Francisco, CA
The screening will start at 7:00 pm sharp. Doors open at 6:45 pm.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.
RSVP Required. First come, first served.
Please let us know in advance if you have accessibility-related needs so that we can be sure to accommodate you.
Featuring:
Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker, "NO END IN SIGHT"
Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Official Synopsis:
"A coolheaded, devastating expose" - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"Enraging...apocalyptic...masterful." - Rob Nelson, Village Voice
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, "NO END IN SIGHT" is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts.
"NO END IN SIGHT" examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy-the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military-largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world, or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? "NO END IN SIGHT" dissects the people, issues, and facts behind the Bush administration's decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
A recent report by the Center for American Progress, "Strategic Reset," will be available at the screening. The report calls for the United States to pick up the pieces left by President Bush's flawed Middle East strategy by building a comprehensive, sustained diplomatic approach across the region.
Please join us for a provocative conversation with filmmaker Charles Ferguson and senior CAP fellow Brian Katulis following the screening.
Please park in the 4th and Mission Parking Structure. Parking is $3.00 per hour.
AMC Loews Metreon Theatre
101 Fourth St
(At fourth and Mission St.) San Francisco, CA 94103
Map & Directions
Nearest Metro: Powell Street accessible by all BART lines except the Richmond-Fremont line.
RSVP for this Event
For more information, please call 202.741.6246.
Biographies
Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational Pictures, LLC, and writer, director, and producer of "NO END IN SIGHT: The American Occupation of Iraq," which is his first film. Ferguson was originally trained as a political scientist. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992 to1994, Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments. In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office. After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Brian Katulis is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. At the Center, his work examines U.S. national security policy in Middle East with a focus on Iraq. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Center's Middle East Progress project. Prior to joining the Center, Katulis lived and worked in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, including projects in Egypt, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has published articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor among other publications. Katulis received a graduate degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.
NO END IN SIGHT opens in New York and DC on Friday, July 27th, and will open in Los Angeles and other select cities in August.
July 24, 2007, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Los Angeles, CA
Admission is free.
The screening will start at 7:00 pm sharp. Doors open at 6:45 pm.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.
RSVP Required. First come, first served.
Please let us know in advance if you have accessibility-related needs so that we can be sure to accommodate you.
Featured Panelists:
Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker, "NO END IN SIGHT"
Nicholas Cull, Professor and Director of the USC Master's in Public Diplomacy
Gregory Treverton, Director, RAND Center for Global Risk and Security
Moderated by:
Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Official Synopsis:
"A coolheaded, devastating expose" - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"Enraging...apocalyptic...masterful." - Rob Nelson, Village Voice
The
first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent
into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, "NO END IN
SIGHT" is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence,
recklessness, and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the
film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of
Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in
charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), former Chief of Staff to
Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson, and General Jay Garner (in charge of
the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians,
American soldiers, and prominent analysts.
"NO END IN SIGHT"
examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy-the
use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the
purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding
of the Iraqi military-largely created the insurgency and chaos that
engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military
experience, knowledge of the Arab world, or personal experience in Iraq
come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? "NO END IN SIGHT"
dissects the people, issues, and facts behind the Bush administration's
decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful
look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a
seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
Please join
us for a provocative panel discussion and Q&A session immediately
following the film during which panelists will discuss the film's
deconstruction of the situation in Iraq.
The Landmark
10850 West Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Map & Directions
RSVP for this Event
For more information, please call 202.741.6246.
Biographies
Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational Pictures, LLC, and writer, director, and producer of "NO END IN SIGHT: The American Occupation of Iraq," which is his first film. Ferguson was originally trained as a political scientist. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1989. Following his Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and European high technology firms. From 1992 to1994, Ferguson was an independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple, Xerox, Motorola, and Texas Instruments. In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the first visual website development tool, FrontPage. In early 1996, Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into Microsoft Office. After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Professor Nicholas Cull is a faculty member of the USC Annenberg School and the School of International Relations and serves as the Director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy Program. He came to USC from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, where he was a professor of American Studies and Director of the Centre for American Studies. His research and teaching interests are broad and inter-disciplinary, centering on the developing academic discipline of public diplomacy, the role of culture, information, news and propaganda in foreign policy. He is author of the forthcoming American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989: The United States Information Agency and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press 2008). His first book, Selling War, (Oxford University Press, 1995), was named by Choice Magazine as one of the ten best academic books of that year. Cull earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. While a graduate student he studied at Princeton University as a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. From 1992 to 1997 he was lecturer in American History at the University of Birmingham. He is the co-editor of Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present (2003) which was one of Book List magazine's reference books of the year. He is also the president of the council of the International Association for Media and History, and has worked closely with the British Council's Counterpoint Think Tank.
Gregory Treverton is director of the RAND Corporation's Center for Global Risk and Security. Earlier, he directed RAND's Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center, and he was associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His recent work has examined terrorism, intelligence and law enforcement, with a special interest in new forms of public-private partnership. He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, handling Europe for the National Security Council and, most recently, as vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, overseeing the writing of America's National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs). He holds an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and an M.P.P (Master's in Public Policy) and Ph.D. in economics and politics from Harvard. His latest books are Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information, Cambridge University Press, 2001; and New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking (edited), RAND, 2003.
Brian Katulis is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. At the Center, his work examines U.S. national security policy in Middle East and democratization, with a focus on Iraq. Prior to joining the Center, Katulis lived and worked in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, including projects in Egypt, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. His previous experience includes work in the Near East and South Asian Directorate of the National Security Council and the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State during the Clinton administration. He has published articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Katulis received a graduate degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.Katulis also works with the Center for American Progress project, Middle East Progress.
NO END IN SIGHT opens in New York and DC on Friday, July 27th, and will open in Los Angeles and other select cities in August.