Ebook: So wrong for so long: how the press, the pundits-- and the president-- failed on Iraq

In early 2003., Greg Mitchell was one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously question the stated reasons for invading Iraq. In the years since, he has repeatedly challenged the media to probe the conduct of the war and its toll on our troops. Now, after five years of war, he traces the conflict- from the "run-up" to the "surge"--And the media's coverage of it in this important collection of commentaries which explore not only how we got into the war in Iraq, but why we just can't seem to get out.-- Book Jacket.;2003 -- January. on the war path -- My 9/11 story -- and Iraq's -- February. Ellsberg : have the media learned lessons of Vietnam? -- Powell conquers the media -- Schanberg hits the ground rules running -- March. Eleven questions we wish they'd asked -- Rummy meets McNamara -- April. Moyers : beginning of the end -- or just the beginning? -- May. Back in the daze of mission accomplished -- July. Media downplay U.S. death toll -- September. Why we are in Iraq -- On the second anniversary of 9/11 -- 2004 -- February. How we treat the injured -- March. Did you hear the one about the missing WMD? -- April. Good morning, Vietnam -- Coffin fit -- May. General Petraeus : "tell me how this ends" -- Why did the press ignore early report on Abu Ghraib? -- A rare call for withdrawal -- Rush Limbaugh, Abe Rosenthal, and me -- About Times : it finally accepts blame on WMD -- June. From Sadr city to Doonesbury -- July. The pluck of the Irish -- August. Post war apology falls short -- September. George W. Bush : the new "Baghdad Bob"? -- What a reporter in Iraq really thinks about the war -- November. From Fallujah to Landstuhl : what about the wounded? -- Shoot the messenger (literally) -- December. Rumsfeld caught with "armor" down -- 2005 -- January. Rathergate vs. weaponsgate -- Declare victory -- and pull out -- March. Reporters air grievances -- May. The great photo "cover-up" -- No Pat answers in the Tillman case -- July. Plame gets the "-gate" -- Why the Pentagon is blocking Abu Ghraib images -- August. Cindy Sheehan and the lost boys -- October. The scooter and Judy Soap Opera : "as the aspens turn" -- Times drops bombshell -- on Judy Miller -- Time to end Miller's high life -- November. Lunching with Rumsfeld -- Murtha speaks out : a "Cronkite moment"? -- 2006 -- January. What I did during the Jill Carroll abduction -- February . Oprah "Freys" George W. Bush -- March. Appointment in Samarra -- David Brooks plays Rummy -- On third anniversary : editorials dither while Iraq dies -- April. Even Stephen : Colbert roasts President -- and the press -- May. Neil Young and the restless -- A history of the "Friedman unit" -- June. Media slow to probe Haditha -- Dead and loving it : media air graphic images of Zarqawi -- The cost of killing civilians -- Bruce Springsteen vs. Ann Coulter -- September. A comma or a coma? -- October. Will the media finally count the dead? -- Bush among friends -- November. She killed herself -- after objecting to torture techniques -- Kayla and Alyssa : why one survived -- She outlived Iraq -- then killed herself at home -- December. The last soldier to die for a mistake -- Media leave audience hanging -- 2007 -- January. Surge protectors -- March. A Washington Post editorial as a Daily Show routine -- General Petraeus and a high-profile suicide -- Press covers Plame's wardrobe -- ignores cover-up -- April. A woman's dentures in the dirt -- Has "straight talk" by media derailed McCain? -- "Sorry we shot your kid, but here's $500" -- Moyers returns with "devastating" probe -- June. Better late than never : a major paper calls for pullout -- A rare look at one civilian casualty -- July. Haven't we been through this movie before? -- From hanging with George Clooney to hanging bad guys in Iraq -- August. Why aren't the media on a suicide watch? -- George Bush meets Graham Greene -- September. "Op-ed soldiers" die -- as Petraeus and Bush surge ahead -- October. Dying in the dark -- in the "non-combat" zone.