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 enlarge | Author: Dahr Jamail
Creator: Amy Goodman
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 361473
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1931859477
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9781931859479
ASIN: 1931859477
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Honest and Powerful January 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thank you Dahr for heeding the call to take you to the places few Americans allow themselves to go. This book is a true testament of the degree of devastation and misinformation we in the US are at times oblivious to. This book is a must read. Thank you for your life and for your calling.
Truly the first draft of history January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Journalism has been called the "first draft of history" and Dahr Jamail's work is most certainly that. His book is an eyewitness look at the events of the war on Iraq from street level and through the eyes of the Iraqis, unfiltered by any official spin. For anyone wishing to make sense of the Iraqi peoples' reaction to the American invasion and occupation this book is indispensable.
One can feel the inevitable insurgency brewing by even the second chapter as the local people react to a foreign occupier who appears to care nothing for their well being. Politics being perception, whether the reader wishes to believe the Iraqis' account of the events or not, this book is a window into why the insurgency had so much popular backing.
I have my own opinions on the war and why America invaded but it is not my purpose to state them here. What I am hoping to do is convince prospective readers that should they wish to take a hard, unflinching look at Mesopotamia under American occupation and why things turned out the way they did this is the best book they can pick up.
Many histories will be written of Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century and works like "Beyond the Green Zone" will serve as their foundation.
Iraq war in Reality January 10, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you read only 1 book about what is going on in Iraq, due to the Bush/Cheney manipulated/illegal Occupation, this is without any doubt, "The Book To Read"! Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
Thanks go out to the "Unembedded Journalist in Iraq" and author, Dahr Jamail, for his "Courage and Truthiness"!
Sgt. Allen G. Riegel ret
US Army 3/25th Inf. (VN)
wounded Vet
It's a must read January 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. It tells the truth and is deeply touching. It's hard to read it and not be affected. I am getting copies for a lot of my friends since I believe it's important that people get first hand accounts of the war. Dahr put his own life at risk to bring the news to others. I hope that his message is widely read so the heartbreaking tragedy occuring in Iraq can be stopped and the region can move toward peace.
Stunning. Horrifying. Terrible. In other words, superb journalism. January 2, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Beyond the Green Zone is a horrifying and disturbing read, but I highly recommend it. There's a demented joy to learning the truth no matter how horrible when you know you've been lied to for so long.
I can hear the criticisms now: How do you know you've been lied to? How do you know this book is true? But such critics never seem to realize that they are accepting the approved White House and Major Media storyline on faith and only being skeptical of ideas that challenge that chorus.
That's one way you know it's a lie: the chorus. When they're all saying the same thing, something is terribly wrong. It's human nature: When a reporter is embedded with a group of men with guns, their only means of protection in a hostile environment, is that reporter really going to criticize their unofficial bodyguards? Look how long it took for the American media to finally use the label "civil war" after years of referring to "sectarian violence."
There are several major groups that this book damns: 1) the military 2) the media 3) the corporate contractors and of course, 4) the war criminal planners: not just Bush and Cheney but the "think tank" junta for which Bush and Cheney are merely the public face.
A lot of Americans would likely be deeply offended if they were compared directly to a docile or fearful populace of Nazi Germany as that regime carried out genocide. However, that's what it appears is happening: genocide of the Iraqis while most Americans sit back and argue over who supports the troops more.
For those of you who are simple-minded, this is not an insult to the troops, and neither is this book except in the way that drawing attention to someone's actions serves as an insult because those actions are despicable.
This is the only thing I've read in the almost five years of this war that attempts to find out what the liberation promised by the war criminals Bush and Cheney looks like. What it looks like is nothing that I'd want to be liberated for: mass chaos, murder, impure water, no access to electricity, random bombings, collective punishment for neighborhoods that will not turn over insurgents, etc.
I greatly appreciate Mr. Jamail bringing the perspectives of the common Iraqi to readers world-wide. Where else are we hearing the voice of the Iraqi-on-the-street? What other media outlet greets the official military line with such skepticism?
Read this book and call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney as well as an investigation into their activities with a view toward criminal prosecution. Thank you.
Larry Nocella
author of the novel, Where Did This Come From?
Where Did This Come From?
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