Charles Ferguson on No End in Sight

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Partner:: World Affairs Council: Nor Cal
Location:: World Affairs Council of Northern California
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 04.14.08
Speaker:: Charles H. Ferguson
Tags:: iraq; iraq war; warfare

Summary: After the Fall of Baghdad with Charles Ferguson.

Charles Ferguson joins the Council to discuss his Oscar-nominated documentary film and new book No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos.

Culled from over two hundred hours of footage collected for the film - as well as additional interviews in response to it - his book provides an investigative record of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003.

Confronting such issues as troop levels, the looting of Baghdad, the US military's "surge," and purging professionals from the Iraqi government, Ferguson's book features candid interviews with high-ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and General Jay Garner, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, intelligence officers, and prominent analysts, such as George Packer, Samantha Power, and Christopher Hitchens - World Affairs Council of Northern California

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Charles H. Ferguson

Charles Ferguson is director and producer of No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which is his first film. Ferguson co-founded one of the earliest Internet software companies, Vermeer Technologies, which was sold to Microsoft.

Ferguson has been a visiting scholar at MIT and UC Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a director of the French-American Foundation.

He is the author of three books on information technology and its impact on society. He holds a BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.

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01.: Moderator Introduction

01 min 21 sec

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02.: Ferguson Opening: No End in Sight

03 min 12 sec

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03.: Pivotal Decisions of 2002-2003

02 min 17 sec

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04.: Parallel Reconstruction Efforts

03 min 25 sec

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05.: Rumsfeld Decision of Troop Level

01 min 06 sec

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06.: Ill Planned Occupation

02 min 44 sec

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07.: Nothing Done About the Looting

02 min 55 sec

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08.: Appointment of L. Paul Bremer

04 min 33 sec

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09.: Nothing Done About Militias

00 min 48 sec

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10.: No End in Sight Excerpt: Looting

04 min 51 sec

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11.: No End in Sight Excerpt: Disbanding of Iraqi Army

03 min 23 sec

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12.: Current Situation

06 min 28 sec

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13.: Q & A

00 min 24 sec

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14.: Q1: Media Holding Administration Accountable

04 min 25 sec

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15.: Q2: State Department's Role in Planning

03 min 09 sec

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16.: Q3: Inexperienced Appointees

01 min 46 sec

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17.: Q4: Most Memorable Interviews

03 min 17 sec

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18.: Q5: Sanctions Post First Gulf War

02 min 40 sec

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19.: Q6: Government Corruption

05 min 43 sec

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20.: Q7: Lessons Learned

02 min 50 sec

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Charles Ferguson on Unaccounted Iraqi Reconstruction Funds

03 min 54 sec

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Charles Ferguson on the Looting of Iraq

03 min 25 sec

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Charles Ferguson on L. Paul Bremer's Role in Iraq

05 min 02 sec

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