{"id":2261,"date":"2005-08-01T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-01T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T07:52:12","slug":"how-america-lost-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/how-america-lost-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"How America Lost Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/glantz\/>Antiwar.com contributor Aaron Glantz<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<ul>I am proud to report that <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1585424269\/antiwarbookstore\/><i>How America Lost Iraq<\/i><\/a>, my unembedded book about Iraq under U.S. occupation is now a bestseller. As of today, it is #9 on the <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/eguide\/books\/bestsellers\/>list<\/a>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The book has also racked up a few glowing reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the <i>Seattle Times<\/i> had to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A no holds barred look at our Iraq quagmire \u2026 an important first-person document historians will look to in the future as they draw a more complete picture of America&#8217;s catastrophic victory in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/i> gave <i>How America Lost Iraq<\/i> a starred review: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glantz&#8217;s account is full of interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their evolving thoughts and experiences he builds a critique of the many American misconceptions about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left&#8217;s knee-jerk preconceptions, the occupation authorities&#8217; cluelessness and heavy-handed misrule and the media&#8217;s lack of interest in the suffering of Iraqis. The result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1585424269\/antiwarbookstore>Get your copy now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent Antiwar.com contributor Aaron Glantz writes: I am proud to report that How America Lost Iraq, my unembedded book about Iraq under U.S. occupation is now a bestseller. As of today, it is #9 on the San Francisco Chronicle&#8216;s list. &#8230; The book has also racked up a few glowing reviews. Here&#8217;s what the Seattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}