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Witness Iraq: A War Journal, February - April 2003

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This book is very good. It is not afraid to show you the hell of war. Like in one of the pictures it showes a Marine shot and dying. I recommend this book and do not know what the peeps above me were talking about!!

This is a picture book on the war that toppled Saddam from his dictatorship. As one of the previous reviewers have already noted, it is a coffee table book. The pictures are great as they show the reality of war--innocent civilians including children being wounded and killed. Not surprisely, I found the book to be pro war and anti Saddam. The period detailed was the initial invasion and the aftermath. People were generally pro-American and welcomed the Americans, and this shows in the pictures of U.S. soldiers being kissed. Much has changed since this book has been published. At present, it does not demonstrate the true feeling of Iraqis or Americans about the war now.
There is not much to read in this book. There are a few slivers of info, but overall a person will not gain any great insight into why the war was fought. The pictures are great, and this would be the only reason to purchase the book.

there isn't much good to say about this book .. the quality of the images is poor abd the narrative is non existent. There are far better books out there addressing the war in iraq. This one just misses.

While many of the photographs in this book are excellent, I need to point out the the acompanying text with this book has been mostly plagarized from various on-line web diaries. It's likely that the photographers who contributed to this book would probably scream bloody murder if someone lifted thier work from the internet and published it for profit under someone elses name. It's a shame that they can't show the same respect to a text author who's work happens to appear on-line. Just because something is written on a web page instead of in a newspaper or magazine does not mean that the work is in the public domain. Shame on the editor & publisher of this book. I hope they get sued for a zillion dollars.

This coffeetable book contains graphic images of the Iraq war.
Its visually engaging, I will give it credit for that.
Its also a clear warning to any country that would like to
threaten the USA.

Where it goes wrong is that it paints an overly rosy picture of the aftermath of the war. This is war the way Bush the Junior and Rumsfeld would like you to see it. The book shows grateful Iraqis hugging and kissing US soldiers. I think we know by now that not everybody in Iraq is that happy to see us there and we face a potential Vietnam-like quagmire unless we can assemble a coalition of nations to secure and pacify Iraq.

The book graphically shows the results of Saddam's megalomania and his total disregard for his own people. Too bad we only have to look to North Korea to find another despot all too eager to throw his own people "under the bus".