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Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You
by Norman Solomon, Reese Erlich, Sean Penn (Introduction: Howard Zinn)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Context Books (2003-01)
ISBN: 1893956393
EAN: 9781893956391
Dewy Decimal #: 070.449327730567090511
Paperback: 208 pages
SKU: GD08011612
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Exactly as shown, Spine uncreased, Text clean with NO marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Deftly separating truth from propaganda, Target Iraq is a hard-hitting expose of the harsh realities and consequences of the pending war and the media's failure to present the full spectrum of issues to the public. Target Iraq will figure prominently in the national debate about the war against Iraq. Included are appendices by the Institute for Public Accuracy and FAIR -- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- that provide a line-by line analysis of Bush's key October speech to Congress, the UN Security Council resolution, and other related speeches and documents.
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Customer Reviews
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Very Interesting
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-03-08
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an interesting book. Anyone who is interested in an alternative to the right wing talk radio and tv news should seriously consider checking out the Thom Hartmann radio show opposite Rush Limbaugh weekdays at: thomhartmann dot com / showlisten.shtml
Whether democrat, republican, or indepedent, so many of the facts out there are completely ignored by the mainstream media and talk shows. This show is one strong example of an examination of the facts regardless of your political affiliation. I am not affiliated with the show in any way, just struck by the facts so many seem to ignore.
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Solomon is right on
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-07-07
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
a book you can read in one sitting, and get all that sickness out of your system. solomon is a fantastic writer and what he has to tell you should be told to everyone. read and re-read this book, then read War Made Easy and help turn our country around!
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Better than his Dilbert book
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-06-10
6 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
Well, Solomon may have finally written a book that isn't obviously a steamer. Compared to his book deconstructing Dilbert and weightily concluding that Dilbert represents a betrayal of the interests of the working classes, or any of his other pomposity-laden blather, this book has a cognizable argument. Of course, maybe a hundred or more other authors make the argument far more cogently. But give Solomon his due, he correctly observes that not all of the reporting on Iraq or White House explanations of the rationales for invading Iraq are entirely factually correct. But then again, it's pointing out the obvious, everyone pretty much acknowledges it, and Solomon's heavy-handed heavy-breathing style of writing and analysis pretty much consigned this book to the remainder bin as of the date of publication.
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What The Authors Do Not Tell You
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-05-09
14 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
To put this review in context, I have read a number of books covering the lead up to the latest war in Iraq so my expectation level continues to increase in regards to the quality and completeness of any book on the topic. I thought this book was either going to offer a critique of the news media and their reporting, the propaganda, for lack of a better term, that was put out by the Bush team or even interesting facts about the current Iraq. Well, the authors tried to touch on all these topics, but did so is such a slap dash method that it left me wanting more in every regard. First off the book, like many of its kind, has a very anti war bias. That is about what you would expect from this area of literature, but it is always nice if the authors can reign in their comments to present a book that can a least have passing reference to fairness. These authors did no such thing and at times I felt they were actually egging on the anti war sentiment and playing up the whole Iraq sanctions horrors play book. Again there is nothing wrong with this, but it makes the book appeal to only the truly hard core anti war or anti Bush reader.Back to the substance of the book and as stated earlier it was just that the authors either did not have the time or the patience to truly develop any of the themes they were talking about. They presented chapters with the broad overview, but left the reader wanting more. Given the very obvious bias to the book, I would have thought they would have at lest spent the time to fully develop or at least bog the critic down with page after page of facts. They did not. To cap it off they tossed n a speech of President Bush with rolling commentary. A great idea, but the execution was paltry at best. They relied on inflammatory statements instead of detailed factual rebuttals. In the end their comments on the speech were no better then the speech itself. Overall I came away from the book thinking it was nothing more then a quickly put out money grab. There were some interesting details on what life is like in Iraq and a review of UN Security Counsel resolutions, but not enough. I would suggest you continue searching if you are looking for a well researched and formulated anti war book. On the other had if you have your mind made up and just want to read a book that will agree with your position then this book is a nice time killer.
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Call Them Correct
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-09-09
22 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
I initially read this informative, hard-hitting book shortly before America and its "coalition of the willing" invaded Iraq. I have since re-read it, a good exercise to test the validity of the warnings and conditional predictions raised by authors Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich.As an integrity test this book rings even truer with the passage of time and onrush of events than when it was first published shortly prior to the invasion of Iraq. The authors adroitly cite the rush to war and the falsehoods asserted by Bush and minions, focusing on the "weapons of mass destruction" charge. The authors hit very hard the American contention that the inspections carried out by UN forces were not working, taking the same position as former UN inspector Scott Ritter. The chapter dealing with Depleted Uranium alone is worth the price of the book. The authors cite the dangers of an eventual epidemic breaking out among invading forces and the general populace, classifying Depleted Uranium as "America's Dirty Secret." As the authors state, "Depleted uranium is the material left over from the processing of nuclear fuel. The U.S. military uses DU as a substitute for lead to fill the core of special ammunition. Depleted Uranium is 1.7 times denser than lead ... " In addition to stressing the potential risk to Iraqi civilians resulting from Depleted Uranium, along with citing the deferential treatment from the media concerning invasion plans, as well as showcasing American unilateralism, the authors also cover the important oil issue. All you had to do was read this book before the war and you would not be one scintilla surprised over the kind and beneficent manner with which Bush and cronies dealt with Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, which received such a glorious windfall in post-war Iraq, all without having to go through the bother of competitive bidding.
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