Foreword. The Greatest Con of Our History —Joseph Cirincione

Introduction. Oil, War, and Things Worth Fighting For —Scott Ritter

An Exercise in Critical Thinking: Today’s Sharpest Minds Tackle the War and its Context

1. The Thirteen Years’ War —Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

Postscript to Chapter 1. Some Final Thoughts —Alexander Cockburn

2. Iraq, 1917 —Robert Fisk

3. Global Democracy...Through Superior Firepower —Maurizio Blondet

Postscript to Chapter 3. On Luttwak’s Coup D’Etat: A Practical Handbook —Maurizio Blondet

4. Simple Truths, Hard Problems: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice, and Self-Defense —Prof. Noam Chomsky, Ph.D.

Driving the Runaway Train: Neocons, 9-11, and the Pretexts for War

5. The Ideology of American Empire —Prof. Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D.

6. Neoconservatives, Israel, and 9/11: The Origins of U.S. War on Iraq —Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D.

7. A Real Hijacking: The Neoconservative Fifth Column and the War in Iraq —Justin Raimondo

8. UnJust War Theory: Christian Zionism and the Road to Jerusalem —Prof. David Lutz, Ph.D.

9. Manipulating Catholic Support for the War: The Black Operation Known as “Conservatism” —E. Michael Jones, Ph.D.

10. What the War is All About —Kirkpatrick Sale

11. Risky Business: The Perils of Profitmongering in Iraq —Naomi Klein

Postscript to Chapter 11. The More Things Change... —Prof. William O’Rourke

The Professionals Speak I: Military Reactions to Operation Iraqi Freedom

12. An Insider Look at Pentagon Policy —Making in the Run-Up to Gulf War II-Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF (ret.)

13. The Moral Responsibility of the Military Officer in the Context of the Larger War We Are In —Robert Hickson, USA, (ret.), Ph.D.

Introduction to Chapter 14. To War or Not to War, That Is the Question —Jack Dalton

14. Hindsight is 20-20: Iraq & “War on Terror” Veterans on Gulf War II —A Roundtable with Chris Harrison, former Army 1st Lt., Jimmy Massey, former Marine Corps Staff Sgt., Tim Goodrich, former Air Force Sgt., and Dave Bischel, former Air Force Sgt.

15. Just Following Orders: One Sailor and His Vision of the Higher Law —An Interview with Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, USN

Introduction to Chapter 16. The Case of Staff Sgt. Al Lorentz —Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF (ret.)

16. Why We Cannot Win —Staff Sgt. Al Lorentz, USAR

The Professionals Speak II: The Intelligence Community and the Intelligence Debacle

17. Drinking the Kool-Aid: Making the Case for War with Compromised Integrity and Intelligence —Col. W. Patrick Lang, USA (ret.)

18. Sham Dunk: Cooking Intelligence for the President —Ray McGovern

The Professionals Speak III: War College Professors Apply Their Expertise

19. The “War on Terror”: Ingenious or Incoherent? —An Interview with Prof. Jeffrey Record, Ph.D.

20. A War Crime or an Act of War? —Stephen Pelletière, Ph.D.

The Professionals Speak IV: A Scientist and a Diplomat

21. Neocons and Loose Nukes —Gordon Prather, Ph.D.

22. A Call to Conscience —Roger Morris

Defying World Order: Reactions From Vatican and UN Perspectives

23. The Iraq War and the Vatican —Mark and Louise Zwick

24. The United Nations Charter and the Invasion of Iraq —John Burroughs, J.D., Ph.D. and Nicole Deller, J.D.

25. Legal Nonsense: The War on Terror and its Grave Implications for National and International Law —An Interview with Prof. Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D.

Propping Up a Dying Giant: American Economic and Military Survival Tactics

26. In Her Death Throes: The Neoconservative Attempt to Arrest the Decline of American Hegemony —Prof. Immanuel Wallerstein, Ph.D.

27. A New “American Century”? Iraq and the Hidden Euro-Dollar Wars —F. William Engdahl

One Good Scandal Deserves Another: The Snowballing of American Lawlessness

28. The Law of Armed Conflict and the “War on Terror” —Gabor Rona, J.D., Ll.M.

29. A Prison Beyond the Law —Joseph Margulies, Esq.

Postscript to Chapter 29. Seeking to Render the Rasul Decision Meaningless —Amnesty International

Postscript to Chapter 29. An Illusion of Lawful Process —Joseph Margulies, Esq.

30. Far, Far Worse Than Watergate —Jeffrey Steinberg

Postscript to Chapter 30. The Anonymity Trap —Jacob Weisberg

31. A Torture(d) Web —Col. Dan Smith, USA (ret.)

Postscript to Chapter 31. A Voice in the Wilderness —Rear Adm. John Hutson, USN (ret.), J.D.

So Much for the Fourth Estate: Our Imperial Press

32. Chronicles of Abdication: Press Coverage of the War in Iraq —Tom Engelhardt

33. Weapons of Mass Deception: The Air War —John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton

34. Truth From These Podia: A Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Information Warfare, and Psychological Operations in Gulf War II —Col. Samuel Gardiner, USAF (ret.)

The Other Side of the Story: Honest Men Consider the Situation in Iraq

35. Behind the Smoke Screen: Why We Are in Iraq —An Interview with Prof. Ayad Al-Qazzaz

36. A Priest Looks at the Former Regime —An Interview with Fr. Jean Marie Benjamin

37. Portrait of Noble Resignation: Tariq Aziz and the Last Days of Saddam Hussein —Milton Viorst

Enduring Injustice: Iraq and the Current Political Landscape

38. Nemesis and Name-Calling: Who Are the Iraqi Rebels? —Col. Donn de Grand Pré, USA (ret.)

39. The Politics of Electoral Illusion —Mark Gery

40. A Trial Indeed: The Treatment of Saddam Hussein vs. the Rule of Law —Curtis Doebbler, Esq., Ph.D.

Appendices. The U.S. and Iraq: A Checkered History

Appendix I. Off to a Bad Start: International Law and War Crimes in the Case of Gulf War I —Michael Ratner, Esq.

Appendix II. The PR Campaign of Gulf War I —John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton