Iraq Five Years Later: Six books on the lives lost, the money spent and the opportunities squandered

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WP: Iraq: Five Years Later
Six books on the lives lost, the money spent and the opportunities squandered.
(Ashley Gilbertson)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2008/03/14/LI2008031401805.html

Defeat (By Jonathan Steele)
Could It Ever Have Gone Right?
A British journalist asks hard questions about the occupation.
Reviewed by Daniel Benjamin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303604.html

The Three Trillion Dollar War (By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes)
What's the Tab?
Two economists attempt to calculate the price of U.S. intervention in Iraq.
Reviewed by Carlos Lozada
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303576.html

Daydream Believers (By Fred Kaplan)
The Best of All Possible Worlds
An analyst diagnoses a case of wishful thinking among policymakers.
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Slaughter
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303534.html

The War for America, 1775-1783 (By Piers Mackesy)
Then and Now
The startling parallels between the Iraq War and the American Revolution.
By Thomas E. Ricks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303505.html

Washington's War: From Independence to Iraq (By Gen. Sir Michael Rose)
George III and Bush II
By Dennis Drabelle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303504.html

Dreams and Shadows (By Robin Wright)
In Search of the Good News
A journalist travels the Middle East, looking for change.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303488.html

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1. 3,988 American lives lost, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Countless broken lives and

broken hearts.
icasualties.org