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A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq Paperback – August 29, 2005

by Paul William Roberts (Author)
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The author of The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein shares his insights into the politics of Iraq as he has observed them from his perspective as a longtime journalist in the Middle East. Original.
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    August 29, 2005
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    6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1551928191
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    978-1551928197
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  • Daphne O'Brien
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Tribute to the Iraqi People
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2005
    This book moved me deeply. It honoured the Iraqi people. Written by an author who is obviously very intelligent and humane, he writes sometimes in anger (understandably - his Iraqi friend and family were most probably "lit up" in their car near Fallujah), but mostly with a humanity and depth of understanding that left me awed.

    Paul Roberts takes you into the amazing history of these wonderful, intelligent people, who have not yet lost the ability to feel another's pain, and to cry unashamedly when the pain is too great.

    I have read a great deal on Iraq and its history. This is, to date, the most powerful and the most humane. Plus some very interesting little tidbits, like his discussion with Prince Faisa of Jordan. What DID happen to the Hussein brothers?

    If you read no other book on Iraq, I would definitely recommend this one.
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  • Dr. Lee D. Carlson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Embedded in the carnage of war
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2006
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    Modern neuroscience teaches that anger has a short decay time and that it requires frequent inputs to sustain itself. In reading this book, when thinking about the events in Iraq for the past fifteen years, and when listening to the dull platitudes of the yellow regime in Washington, it is very difficult not to be angry. The savagery unleashed upon Iraq, along with the jingoistic echolalia of the Western press, all contribute to a seemingly sustainable level of anger and frustration.

    But anger, although motivating perhaps to a degree, by itself does not offer any constructive solutions. This book, written by a person who was "on the ground" during the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, is riddled with anger, even polluted with it. But if anger can have a moral justification, one will find such a justification in this book. When your neighborhood is invaded, when your neighbors and friends are killed, one does not usually cogitate over the reasons for these killings.

    The author holds the reader's interest because of the rarity of finding first hand accounts of what was going on in Iraq before and after the invasion. It would be difficult to verify the author's account though because of the paucity of reliable information coming from Iraq. Cameras and embedded reporters are of no help in this regard, since they are forced to observe from the supervised eye of the military.

    The horror of the invasion is brought out with great clarity in the book. It will probably not convince the fist-raising soldiers of the sofa to refrain from their rhetorical support of the war, but it does offer the reader a viewpoint from someone who is embedded in its carnage. It also offers some facts or claims that need further investigation but that are perhaps surprising to those readers, such as this reviewer, who have not lived in that part of the world. It is a book that will certainly reinforce the opinions of those opposed to the war, and is a refreshing alternative to the non-critical flag-waving of the ideologically entrenched news agencies.
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  • D. Dingle
    3.0 out of 5 stars A little whinny
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2006
    A good thing I didn't read the reviews before purchasing this book I would have been dissapointed (a little star struck aren't we?). I found Roberts left leaning, anti-US views clouded a possible objective view on what actually happen. I didn't find anything funny in the content, war is not funny at any point. I was a bit disgusted, as a Canadian, with his antics, especially his `thievery'. His detail and prose definitely creates a page turner, I will give you that. I think he is quite lucky he isn't dead with the `US-like' cowboy reporter mentality he protrays; one day walking around saying your Canadian won't save your butt. I expected a bit more depth in his analysis and a sounder conclusion or (even a conclusion). Definitely one to read and draw your own opinion. I believe "The Wars Against Saddam" by John Simpson is better, enlightening choice.
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  • Colby Blair
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important Reading For All
    Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2005
    What was supposed to be a quick visit to the bookstore turned into an hour of page turning and the purchase of a Masterpiece thanks to the blatant honesty and cunning wit of Mr. Paul William Roberts. One often asks what makes a good author and what makes a good book. Pick up A War Against Truth and you will be enlightened by a great book from the pen of a great author. Honest, poignant, hardhitting truth seem to flow quite nicely from the pen to the page, from the page to the heart.
    Be prepared to laugh, to cry and to be terrifically angry, then sit down with a copy of this book today. You will not be disappointed.
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  • D. Donovan, Editor/Sr. Reviewer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A moment-by-moment invasion experience
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2006
    Canadian report Paul William Roberts spent three decades covering the Middle East and was one of the few journalist6 to have interviewed Saddam Husseun, so he knows Iraq better than those newly there - and he was in Baghdad when the bombs fell. A WAR AGAINST TRUTH: AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ is thus much more than an outsider's report: it's a detailed first-person moment-by- moment account of politics, personalities and history by one who has spent most of his adult life learning and absorbing. An excellent non-American, non-Middle-East perspective is developed.
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  • Carolyn McGhee
    5.0 out of 5 stars A page-turner about Iraq
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2004
    In spite of the rather grim opening chapter, describing the fate of a friend of the author , I found I couldn't put it down. The author skillfully leads one through the history of Iraq (7000years worth) and manages to instil humour (usually about some of the wonderfully gutsy Iraqis he has run into)into his beautifully written book. The "Truth" of the book's title is not too obscure - what the author has perceived to be happening during the two recent wars against Iraq. Paul William Roberts clearly knows the country like the back of his hand. The truth about "cluster bombs" I found very hard to take.
    I recommend this to anyone who would like to improve his or her knowledge about the Middle East
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  • ken
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book. The real truth of the Irak war
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2015
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    Very good book.The real truth of the Irak war,and it's catastrophic result in the shape of ISILThe biggest mistake USA and it's allies made.
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