A plethora of politicians, military leaders and think-tank
intellectuals have written books about their experience with the
Bush Administration. But what about the rest of us? What were we
thinking as America marched off to war against Iraq? Fred Rounds,
the author of War of the Willing, is one of us. In January, 2003,
Rounds carefully began to follow the news as the United States
fumbled its way into a disastrous war. Taken from worldwide media
sources his journal contains a record not only of the incredible
day-by-day antics of our politicians, but also the agonizing
struggles, frustrations, and sense of powerlessness that became for
the author the root of an obsession. If we can learn anything from
the last eight years of the Bush Administration, then let it be the
fact that the government does not have any privileged channel of
information unavailable to its constituents. Either the government
had the wrong information or it misused what it did have. Democrats
and Republicans alike got caught up in the war fervor. Along with
millions of others who were thrust into a powerless "focus group"
of protesters, Rounds illustrates how freedom of speech means
nothing if no one in government listens. Thoughtful and
well-informed Americans were simply denied a voice. America not
only lost its voice; it lost a generation to a pointless war in
Iraq.
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