AlterNet: The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq, by Christopher Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry and Robert Scheer, is an insightful and incisive primer exposing the bullying and mendacious misinformation campaign George Bush's White House used to secure the support of Congress, the media and a majority of Americans for a preemptive invasion and occupation of Iraq.

From the enormous bait-and-switch operation that, within hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center, tried to link Al Qaeda with Saddam Hussein, to the clumsy attempts by the U.S. military to pacify, reconstruct and democratize a complex Muslim nation on the other side of the world, this important book razes the house of cards upon which our foreign policy has been built since 9/11.

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This is the rare book that you must purchase for yourself and another few for your friends. My copy will stay by my side as a reference. It is the definitive description of how the Orwellean absurdity of a preventative war leads, of course, to endless misery.

–Doris "Granny D" Haddock, author of Granny D: You're Never to Old to Raise a Little Hell.

If you ever doubted that George W's push for war in Iraq was anything but bushwa -- this book will eliminate your doubts.

–Jim Hightower, author of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back.

Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer, and Lakshmi Chaudhry have documented the depth of deception of all the president's henchmen who misled America into war against Iraq. This book will become the required text for the coming wave of campus teach-ins and mass protests over U.S. policy in Iraq. The authors have written the truth, and the truth sets us free to reclaim our nation.

–U.S. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich

Highly readable and tightly argued, The Five Biggest Lies does more than devastatingly refute the mendacity of the Bush administration's Iraq policy. Christopher Scheer and his cohorts present a chilling portrait of the cabal of neocons who have commandeered American foreign policy, revealing the arrogance, assumptions, and contradictions that have had such disastrous consequences for our nation – and the world.

–Arianna Huffington, author of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America.

From the Chicago Reader's review

from Critic's Choice, by Renaldo Migaldi, March 26, 2004: "... The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq provides a concise primer on the subject with this dense but readable exposition of how the White House responded to 9/11 not by sanely mobilizing global cooperation against a genuine terrorist threat, nor by addressing the root causes of the problem, but by cynically playing on Americans' fears and patriotism to scare up support for an outrageously irrelevant military adventure in Iraq. Scheer and his colleagues chronicle the charade in painful detail: the Bush administration's selective use of intelligence to fit preconceived conclusions; its pattern of lying, obfuscating, and retracting while maintaining deniability; and its arrogant cluelessness about the outside world. Even for those who consider themselves well read on the subject, Scheer's book offers a lucid and disturbing overview of how this country was so easily bamboozled."

Posted by Christopher on May 18, 2004 @ 6:07PM