"Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq" is the
definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and
footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation,
disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious
prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War.
"Never before has such a large and diverse group of experts been
so unanimously in favor of a particular national policy as they
were in the case of the U.S. invasion of Iraq," note Christopher
Cerf and Victor Navasky, who, as co-founders of the Institute of
Expertology, the nation's leading purveyor of expertise on
expertise, were uniquely qualified to assemble this impressive
collection. "In the face of such a consensus, we had no choice but
to ask ourselves, 'Could the iron law of expertology -- the experts
are never right -- be wrong?'"
At once an entertainment, a cautionary tale, a critique of mass
media, a reference tool, and a postwar manifesto, "Mission
Accomplished!" presents, as no book has before, the collective
wisdom of all those who are presumed to know what they talking
about on the subject of America's adventure in Iraq. As this
hilarious, yet depressing, volume demonstrates, they don't.
From MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of
Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
-- President George W. Bush, May 1, 2003
"[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or
to the Coalition Forces."
-- L. Paul Bremer III, Administrator of the Coalition
Provisional Authority in Iraq, November 17, 2003
"Military action will not last more than a week."
-- Bill O'Reilly, "The O'Reilly Factor, " January 23, 2003
"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding
the joy of Hanukkah."
-- President George W. Bush, at a White House menorah lighting
ceremony, December 10, 2001
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