Oh brother. Then tell Amy Goodman never to have Christian on DN ever again.
Or Aaron Glantz either.
How America Lost Iraq
by Aaron Glantz
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585424269/antiwarbookstore/103-6722946-3051833
Editorial Reviews
>From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The failure of the American adventure in Iraq is all
the more tragic for its promising beginnings, according to this
engrossing memoir of the occupation and insurgency. Glantz, a
correspondent for the progressive Pacifica radio network, arrived in
Iraq immediately after the fall of Baghdad. Against his editors'
expectations, he discovered that, although tried by the chaos and lack
of basic services, most Iraqis applauded the United States for
overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Returning in 2004, he found that goodwill
squandered, as Iraqis grew increasingly angry at the continuing
absence of electricity and clean water, high unemployment, anarchy in
the streets and mass imprisonment of innocent people by American
soldiers who couldn't tell insurgents from civilians. With the brutal
sieges of Fallujah and Najaf in April 2004, Glantz contends, the
transformation of the United States in the eyes of Iraqis from
liberator to oppressor was complete. Glantz's account is full of
interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their evolving thoughts and
experiences he builds a critique of the many American misconceptions
about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left's knee-jerk
preconceptions, the occupation authorities' cluelessness and
heavy-handed misrule and the media's lack of interest in the suffering
of Iraqis. The result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment. Agent,
Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. (May)
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