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 “runup” to the “surge” — and the media’s coverage of it, in this important collection of commentaries with significant new additions: an original introduction and dozens of pages of...