The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told US About Iraq

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Unlike recent books on this question that have targeted the media or gone after the entire Bush administration, Five Biggest Lies takes a narrow focus: what Bush and his team said about Iraq, versus what they actually knew. Using testimony from whistleblowers' in high places, including the US Foreign Service and State Department, the authors demonstrate plainly that the warmongers had information contradicting their 'evidence of peril', 'imminent threat', 'urgent duty', 'alliance with terrorists' and, most recklessly of all, 'msuhroom cloud' talking points.'

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Setting out to prove that 'every major assertion that our government put forward to justify the conquest of Iraq has proved false,' this broadside (more akin to a long article than a short book) reviews the evidence (or lack thereof) for linking Iraq to al-Qaida and 9/11, and reveals what the authors say is the inflation of Iraq's weapons capabilities and the erroneous assumptions about how long the war would take. Even sympathetic liberals may find the description of 'the losing end of a long war of attrition' to be overstating the case. The concise account by veteran journalist Robert Scheer, his son and Chaundhry, editors of AlterNet.org, deftly incorporates dozens of other media sources, including very recent materials like Gerald Posner'sWhy America Slept. Publishers Weekly


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 neo-cons who have commandeered American foreign policy, revealing the arrogance, assumptions, and contradictions that have had such disastrous consequences for our nationand the world. Arianna Huffington


Christopher Scheer and Robert Scheer 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 US policy in Iraq. The Scheers have written the truth and the truth sets us free to reclaim our nation. Former United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)

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CHRISTOPHER SCHEER is managing editor of AlterNet.org, the popular news and commentary website. Scheer has written screenplays for Oliver Stone and previously worked for the San Francisco Examiner.
ROBERT SCHEER is the author of six books, the host of NPR affiliate KCRW's "Left, Right, and Center," and a contributing editor to both the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.
LAKSHMI CHAUDHRY is a senior editor at AlterNet.org.