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Fiasco in Iraq

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Fiasco leaves no doubt as to how Washington Post military reporter, Thomas Ricks, feels about the war in Iraq. Released a year ago, the book’s damning history of the war was a force in transforming the public perception of US involvement in Iraq. Fiasco has just been released in paperback and it includes a new postscript looking back on the past year.

Fiasco is available for purchase at amazon.com


Comments

  • [1] Trevor from LIC August 23, 2007 - 01:37PM

    I, for one, think that reinstituting a draft might not be all that unreasonable. At least that way, we will have a populace that thinks twice before it votes for jingoistic aristocrats and may actually become civically involved in their government. Instead, we have apathetic fixations on drug-addled celebutantes and could care less about the loss of innocent Iraqi life and sending off working-class troops to their deaths.

    Bring back the draft, and the war will stop overnight.
  • [2] Taher from Croton on Hudson, NY August 23, 2007 - 01:44PM

    Neither military tactics nor garbage propaganda can change the face Of this war. A neo- colonial occupation.

    The resistance will continue until America leaves Iraq.

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