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Col. Paul Hughes, former director of the Iraq War reconstruction, talks about what the war has done to America. First-time filmmaker Charles Ferguson discusses his new documentary, No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq.
Col. Paul Hughes
Col. Paul Hughes
(Ret.) Army Col. Paul Hughes is a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace. While on active duty, he was responsible for U.S. efforts to reorganize the Iraqi Army and is one of the subjects of the documentary, No End in Sight. Before serving in Iraq, he was a senior military fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He holds two Master of Military Arts & Sciences degrees and was a visiting professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs.
Charles Ferguson
Charles Ferguson
Political Scientist turned filmmaker says, "We took an aquarium and turned it into fish soup" in Iraq. (1:54)
Charles Ferguson is founder-president of Representational Pictures. The unconventional filmmaker's debut project, No End in Sight, won this year's Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Documentary. Originally trained as a political scientist, Ferguson holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. and has been a consultant to several federal agencies and high tech firms. He co-founded one of the early Internet software companies, Vermeer Technologies, which created the Web development tool FrontPage.