The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber told us so. The first authors to expose the blatant deceptions that got us into the Iraq War reveal how the same lies have led us toward defeat.
The Best War Ever is about a conflict that was devised in fantasy and lost in delusion. The war in Iraq may be remembered as the point at which the propaganda model perfected in the twentieth century stopped working: The world is too complex, information is too plentiful, and propaganda makes bad policy.
Even now that public opinion is turning against the war, the Bush administration and its allies continue their attempts at cover-ups: downplaying civilian deaths and military injuries; employing marketing buzzwords like " victory" again and again to shore up public opinion; and failed attempts, through third-party PR firms, at creating phony news. Now that even US generals agree that war critics were right in the first place, Rampton and Stauber show us how to wake up and not be misled again.
