Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword. The Greatest Con of Our History -- Introduction. Oil, War, and Things Worth Fighting For -- An Exercise in Critical Thinking: Today's Sharpest Minds Tackle the War and Its Context -- The Thirteen Years' War -- Postscript. Some Final Thoughts -- Iraq, 1917 -- Global Democracy...Through Superior Firepower -- Postscript. On Luttwak's Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook -- Simple Truths, Hard Problems: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice, and Self-Defense -- Driving the Runaway Train: Neocons, 9/11, and the Pretexts for War -- The Ideology of American Empire -- Neoconservatives, Israel, and 9/11: The Origins of the U.S. War on Iraq -- A Real Hijacking: The Neoconservative Fifth Column and the War in Iraq -- Unjust-War Theory: Christian Zionism and the Road to Jerusalem -- Manipulating Catholic Support for the War: The Black Operation Known as "Conservatism" -- What the War Is All About -- Risky Business: The Perils of Profitmongering in Iraq -- Postscript: The More Things Change -- The Professionals Speak: Military Reactions to Operation Iraqi Freedom -- An Inside Look at Pentagon Policy-Making in the Run-Up to Gulf War II -- The Moral Responsibility of the U. S . Military Officer in the Context of the Larger War We Are In -- Introduction to Chapter 14. To War or Not to War, That Is the Question -- Hindsight is 20-20: Iraq and "War on Terror" Veterans on Gulf War II -- Just Following Orders: One Sailor and His Vision of the Higher Law -- Introduction to Chapter 16. The Case of Staff Sgt. Al Lorentz -- Why We Cannot Win -- The Professionals Speak II: The Intelligence Community and the Intelligence Debacle -- Drinking the Kool-Aid: Making the Case for War with Comprimised Integrity and Intelligence -- Sham Dunk: Cooking Intelligence for the President.

The Professionals Speak III: War College Professors Apply Their Expertise -- The "War on Terror": Ingenious or Incoherent? -- A War Crime or an Act of War? -- The Professionals Speak IV : A Scientist and a Diplomat -- Neocons & Loose Nukes -- A Call to Conscience -- Defying World Order: Reactions from Vatican and UN Perspectives -- The Iraq War and the Vatican -- The United Nations Charter and the Invasion of Iraq -- Legal Nonsense: The War on Terror and its Grave Implications for National and International Law -- Propping Up a Dying Giant: American Economic and Military Survival Tactics -- In Her Death Throes:The Neoconservative Attempt to Arrestthe Decline of American Hegemony -- A New "American Century"? Iraq and the Hidden Euro-Dollar Wars -- One Good Scandal Deserves Another: The Snowballing of American Lawlessness -- The Law of Armed Conflict and the "War on Terror" -- A Prison Beyond the Law -- Postscript. Seeking to Render Rasul Meaningless -- Postscript. An Illusion of Lawful Process -- Far, Far Worse Than Watergate: The "Outing" of Valerie Plame -- Postscript. The Anonymity Trap -- A Torture(d) Web -- Postscript. A Voice in the Wilderness for the Rule of Law -- So Much for the Fourth Estate: Our Imperial Press -- Chronicles of Abdication:Press Coverage of the War in Iraq -- 1. Yellow Journalism: "Anonymous" Lives and Thrives in Washington -- 2. Which War Is This Anyway? -- Weapons of Mass Deception: The Air War -- Truth from These Podia: A Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Information Warfare, and Psychological Operations in Gulf War II -- The Other Side of the Story: Honest Men Consider the Situation of Iraq -- Behind the Smoke Screen: Why We Are in Iraq -- A Priest Looks at the Former Regime -- Portrait of Noble Resignation: Tariq Aziz and the Last Days of Saddam Hussein.

Enduring Injustice: Iraq and the Current Political Landscape -- Nemesis and Name-Calling: Who Are the Iraqi Rebels? -- The Politics of Electoral Illusion -- The Context of the Election -- The Conduct of the Election -- A Trial Indeed: The Treatment of Saddam Hussein -- Appendices. Perspectives on Gulf War I -- Appendix I. Off to a Bad Start: International Law and -- Appendix II. The Mother of All Clients: The PR -- Index -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Further Resources.

The moral, political, and legal problems surrounding the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq are addressed with uncommon frankness in this collection of essays by some of the world's most influential academics, lawyers, journalists, politicians, and military, intelligence, and media experts. Contributions include academics such as Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Claes Ryn; journalists Milton Viorst, Robert Fisk, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Justin Raimondo; former CIA professional Ray McGovern; former Defense Intelligence Agency professional W. Patrick Lang; and Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin, personal friend of the former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Traiq Aziz. Discussing the Iraq war and related issues such as the legal foundation of the war on terror, the detention practices at Guantanamo bay, and the roots of the American neoconservative ideology, the essays illustrate the hypocrisy and illegality of America's stance on terrorism and its policies of aggression in the Middle East.

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