{"product_id":"9781416569930","title":"Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq : The Experts Speak","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher Cerf, Victor S. Navasky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Never before has such a large and diverse group of experts been so unanimously in favor of a particular national policy as they were in the case of the U.S. invasion of Iraq,\" note Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, who, as co-founders of the Institute of Expertology, the nation's leading purveyor of expertise on expertise, were uniquely qualified to assemble this impressive collection. \"In the face of such a consensus, we had no choice but to ask ourselves, 'Could the iron law of expertology -- the experts are never right -- be wrong?'\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At once an entertainment, a cautionary tale, a critique of mass media, a reference tool, and a postwar manifesto, \u003ci\u003eMission Accomplished!\u003c\/i\u003e presents, as no book has before, the collective wisdom of all those who are presumed to know what they talking about on the subject of America's adventure in Iraq. As this hilarious, yet depressing, volume demonstrates, they don't. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- President George W. Bush, May 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- L. Paul Bremer III, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, November 17, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Military action will not last more than a week.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- Bill O'Reilly, \u003ci\u003eThe O'Reilly Factor,\u003c\/i\u003e January 23, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- President George W. Bush, at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, December 10, 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"All the golden oldies are here, from the title of the book itself to Rumsfeld's \"freedom is untidy\" to Kenneth Adelman's prediction that the war would be a \"walk in the park\" to Cheney and McCain's prediction that the Iraqis would greet us as \"liberators.\" Readers may wish to do Sudoku puzzles instead of wallowing in memories of Ari Fleischer and WMDs. But readers who opt for \u003ci\u003eMission Accomplished\u003c\/i\u003e may find that it pins them to their, um, seats.\" -- Salon.com\u003cbr\u003e\"Having amassed an aircraft carrier's worth of lies about the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky can now crow \u003ci\u003eMission Accomplished!.\u003c\/i\u003e Indeed.\" -- \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Almost 25 years after the amusing \u003ci\u003eThe Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation,\u003c\/i\u003e Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf have compiled its successor, \u003ci\u003eMission Accomplished!\u003c\/i\u003e The new book, nicely illustrated by satirist Robert Grossman, hangs authorities of all vocations and ideological stripes with their words about slam dunks, cakewalks, willing coalitions, the war's cost, Jessica Lynch, Blackwater and much more.\" -- \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf's shrewd, lucid and tragically funny compilation of 'experts' offering their (erroneous, comically misguided, and even outright false) thoughts on the Iraq war...is sure to become one of the essential reads for those trying to remember how the Iraq fiasco came to be.\" -Huffington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781416569930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40589914439886,"sku":"9781416569930","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_2bdb119b-3404-45e7-a351-24b5275549af.jpg?v=1637727138","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781416569930","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}