How America Lost Iraq

by Aaron Glantz

A reporter for Pacifica Radio charges the Bush administration with mishandling the war in Iraq, explaining how the U.S. has compromised its early victories and goodwill among the Iraqi people with the Fallujah bombing campaign and by causing unnecessary civilian casualties through a failure to provide promised life necessities. 40,000 first printing.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2005

About the author

Aaron Glantz produces journalism with impact. A two-time Peabody Award-winner and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Glantz’s work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, the signing of new laws, and criminal probes by the DEA, FBI, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. Because of his reporting, 500,000 fewer U.S. military veterans face long waits for disability compensation, while 100,000 fewer veterans are prescribed highly addictive narcotics. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour, where his work has been honored with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and nominated for two national Emmy Awards. A senior reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and a recent JSK Fellow at Stanford University, Glantz’s books include "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream," "How America Lost Iraq," "The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans," and "Winter Solider Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations", which he
coauthored with Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Reviews

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author's account of his time spent in Iraq after the fall of Beruit was pretty chilling, and damning of the American government management of the whole conflict. Aaron's first hand interviews with people across the country chronicled the changing views of Americans. I get it now. The Americans were the hero when we took out Saddam, but we didn't do what we said we would do. There was no rebuilding of building, bridges, roads, hospitals, or schools, much less homes. There was no rebuilding or replacement of the telecommunications, no electricity, no safe drinking water and no employment. The people went from being persecuted and oppressed by Saddam to being randomly imprisoned and killed by Americans. Like Korea and Vietnam, the Americans continue to suffer from a lack of understanding the people in the invaded country. But some things are just basic, like fixing telecommunications, electricity, water and protecting schools and hospitals. The documented abuses at Abu Ghraib, reported also by 60 Minutes and The New Yorker are abhorrent. I'm grateful to Aaron for his clear reporting, and revealing another side of this story.