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No End in Sight In first coming into this assignment I’ll admit I didn’t really think much of it. Just another lame assignment designed by a teacher for the simple purpose of annoying, and of course just something to give us a grade. Looking back now after watching this documentary I’m very glad you did. I’ve learned so much more about the War going on in Iraq in those brief 130 minutes than I did living through it. This film opened my eyes to so much of what really happened in the Middle East. I always wondered about how much thought actually went into planning such a war. For World War II they spent about two years planning coming up with the best strategies, and different scenarios for the war in Iraq we only spent about 50 days in advance planning our strategy. I find that incredibly arrogant and at nothing else a sense of cocky swagger the United States has. When we first entered Iraq many Iraqi’s were extremely happy to see change happening in the form of troops being deployed. They thought there was finally going to be change and a better future ahead of them. All of this greatly changed very rapidly after they soon realized that the United States really had no idea what they were even doing there. The United States made many mistakes during this war. One of those mistakes happens right off the bat. After invading and establishing its presence in the Middle East. Iraq essentially became a lawless country. There were no police and the U.S. troops even encouraged people to loot local government buildings. This quickly got out of control create essentially organized crime. Basically it was people with guns against people without them. This all happened because for some reason after invading the United States army never established marshals law. In fact they where given express orders not to stop looters saying we are not there as a police force we are only there to get in and get out.
This is just a prime example why planning is so important and why we spent those two years preparing for World War II. Another mistake however that went into this catastrophe is who was actually in charge of overseeing this war. Somehow the president thought it was a good idea to appoint many people who have never been in an actual conflict, and no military background. Clearly they can’t be as qualified as someone who actually served in a war, but nope the president assigned a guy by the name of Jerry Bremer. Let’s just take a second to talk about good old Jerry for a second. Basically in summary he’s a dumbass. He has made so many mistakes during his control its astounding. first of all he was the one responsible for coming up with the idea of the De ba anthifiction which basically stopped Iraqi from having any form of government. Take a second to realize what that means. What is the government responcible for? For starters how about schools, yes under good old Jerry thousands of teachers and school officials were out of work. That’s not all though what about the police aren’t they run by the government too I think so, which in turned caused a huge rise in crime such as looting, killings, and for the first time rapes. This idea form Bremer caused a lot of Iraqis to hate us. Unfortunately that wasn’t the only mistake he made the second one was he completely dismantled the Iraqi army. A lot of these men relied on the army as the main source of income to support their families who now have no way to survive. It makes no sense to basically piss off 500 thousand men who all have military grade weapons. This is what first set off the regimes to start forming in Iraq, and when they started forming they knew where all of their armaments where and all of them where completely unguarded. When the US was asked about addressing this problem they said we simple didn’t have enough man power to guard all of the armories. Another problem facing Iraq during the war was the fact that the Iraqis where starving and very poor during the war. Local people said that we have no sewer, no food, no money, or jobs. During planning of the war it was discussed and decided that they had a budget of 18 billion dollars to help rebuild Iraq. They were supposed to use this money for schools, supply running water to homes, turn on the electricity for heaters for warmth, acc. The most amazing part of all of this is that only about 1 billion was ever spent in Iraq. so much fraud and corruption between greedy politicians do left handed deals only thinking about the money. While watching this film I came across a figure it said one in eight hummers used to transport and help defend our troops, actually had adequate armor to protect the solders. That means seven out of eight crews were essentially fighting a war in a soaped up S.U.V. While doing a press conference over seas Bremar was asked about why and how this could be aloud. He replied it’s not a matter of money just physics we can’t make enough product. I’m no expert but throughout the war and even till today people are constantly losing there jobs why we wouldn’t open back some factories to produce more armored vehicles. It seems like a no brainer to stimulate our economy while supporting our troops win.
This film has really opened my eyes to the war. I was saying in the beginning I’m really glad you assigned this paper and I’m also glad I picked No end in sight as my documentary. I went from not really knowing anything about the war to an expert over night. My view has change extremely over this short time of this assignment. I went from an apathetic person who didn’t care about the war to a full fledge supporter of what our troops had to do. I just think we should have done a lot more planning before even entering Iraq come up with better tactics and ways to communicate better between the Iraqi’s If I could summarize this film in just one word it would be SHOCKING to say the least. This movie or I should say documentary was all about the war on Iraq, and basically how much of a bad job we did. I first I thought that Iraq was stupid nobody really cares but I didn’t know just how many people where actually affected. If I’m remembering correctly by the end of the conflict we would be estimated to have spent around 180 trillion dollars that is an unbelievable number that is just way to high. I would like to say that I would greatly and strongly recommend this documentary to anyone even if you don’t care about Iraq watch it, it will change your mind at least mine did.