Today Rob and I did some packing and then headed to Berkeley to see the documentary No End In Sight by Charles Ferguson, the founder of the company that made Frontpage. The movie is about the United States occupation in Iraq and had a variety of views from people who were part of the process to try to rebuild the country after Saddam fell from power. Rob showed me the trailer and we had the urge to see it but it's only playing in select cities right now. The 4:30 showing in Berkeley had a Q&A session with the filmmaker himself after the show so we went to that one. The movie helped us connect the dots to what we already knew to be facts. It's chock full of interviews with high ranking officials who knew that the U.S. policy with Iraq was going down the wrong path but were powerless to stop disastrous decisions from being made. Those decisions eventually led to the insurgency and now there's no easy way to fix the mistakes and no morally right way to leave. It's nothing like a Michael Moore movie. I don't consider it to be partisan or nastily poking fun at the Bush administration. I highly recommend it to anyone who want to understand the decisions that were made during the war and consequences of them. Rob and I managed to shake Ferguson's hand before he left and thank him for stepping up and making such a great documentary.

On a heavier note, it was six years ago today that my mother passed away. I still miss her dearly and have been especially down lately because of it. May she know peace now that she hadn't known while she was with us. R.I.P.