How America Lost Iraq

A reporter in Iraq shows how the U.S. squandered its early victories and goodwill among the Iraqi public and allowed the newly freed society to descend into violence and chaos.

Here is a brutally honest account of a reporter who discovered how popular the U.S. presence was in Iraq-and who watched this change as the Bush administration mishandled the war, leaving us with the intractable conflict we face today.

Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and many other media outlets.

About the author

Aaron Glantz is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in the Nation, The Progressive, San Francisco Chronicle, the American Prospect, and on Democracy Now!. He is author of How America Lost Iraq (Tarcher/Penguin) and the forthcoming The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans (University of California Press). Glantz reported extensively inside Iraq from 2003 to 2005 and has been covering veterans’ issues since his return to the United States.