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In a second interview with host Eliot Spitzer, I discuss the true cost of the Iraq war and my claim that the State Department is retaliating by trying to have me fired. We talk about how I was appalled by the waste and failed attempts to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people: [...]
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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
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I had the honor of reading this book in preview. It had a great story tone, but told a very real tale of mismanagement and its effects on a country and people. The stories were engaging and almost light at times, yet the message remained heavy. A...
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| Just the best book about life in war ever written. If I had three wishes, one of them would be that I was the author of this book. | |
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| This book is one of the best presentations of the argument the war was about oil and empire, laying out the case it was US policy from the beginning to destroy Iraq both as a lesson to everyone else in the world and as a precursor toward rebuilding i...more | |
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| Written in 2003 after the most recent invasion of Iraq, this book focuses instead on the 1991 war and the inter-war period of sanctions and no-fly zones, positing the inevitability of additional conflict created by the failure to resolve the fundamen...more | |
