Reviews for Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You

The average rating for Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-29 00:00:00 Michael Heffer If you finish this book it will piss you off it will infuriate you and it should push you to want both bush's and Clinton charged with war crimes among other charges and given their just sentence. Reading the book shows you exactly why the Iraqi people despised the American occupation! If my kids died bc the US refused to let cancer medicine in or refused to allow parts in to fix water plants for clean water or indiscriminately dropped missiles on civilians I would do my damn best to kill as many invaders as possible as well. Highly recommend this book especially to anyone who believes or believed we should have been in Iraq

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-02 00:00:00 Matthew Doherty Reese Erlich was at Google to promote his book The Iran Agenda and though I was too late to get a copy of it, he had a few copies of this book for sale, so I got one for $10. It was published just before the U.S. went in Iraq, so the tone throughout is of impending war with still a fleeting hope for peace. It all seems so long ago. A long laundry list of the lies perpetrated by the Bush administration as it built its case against Saddam Hussein and how the media were in on it. The two most interesting pieces are analyses of a speech by President Bush and the text of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441. Each sentence is commented by multiple political experts. It was really interesting to see the use of language and how innocuous sentences can be twisted to mean anything. Again, many of the facts are anecdotal and even though tragic, I sometimes wondered how widespread some of the opinions were. For instance, the authors blame the sanctions imposed on Iraq for the hardships endured by the civilian population. Not lifting these sanctions is causing a humanitarian crisis within the country. How much of it is really the responsibility of the parties enforcing the sanctions and how much is the responsibility of the Iraqi government?