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Where to Invade Next

by Stephen Elliott

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ISBN13: 9781932416930
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"About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, 'Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second.' I said, 'Well, you're too busy.' He said, 'No, no.' He says, 'We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.' This was on or about the twentieth of September...

"So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, 'Are we still going to war with Iraq?' And he said, 'Oh, it's worse than that.' He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, 'I just got this down from upstairs' (meaning the Secretary of Defense's office) 'today.' And he said, 'This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years.'"

— General Wesley Clark, February 27, 2007

On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United States intended to "take out" over the next five years. Most of us will never get to see this memo, but we know it exists.

Now, editor Stephen Elliott, authors Jason Roberts, Eric Martin, and Andrew Altschul, and a team of twenty researchers have re-created this document for the present day. Where to Invade Next contains seven essays, 100 percent factual, laying out in stark detail how the arguments for invasion could be made. A biting look at the role of propaganda in foreign policy, this book outlines exactly how our leaders might make the case for war.

About the Author

Stephen Elliott is the author of the political memoir Looking Forward to It, the novel Happy Baby, and the story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. He lives in San Francisco.

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sabubway, October 5, 2008 (view all comments by sabubway)
This wonderful, heart-touched && inspiring book took me off to a fictional land of where to invade next. My inspirations of ice cream && Delilah got forgotten as I read this book, emotional. You find what it is all about as I had a deep touch for this book. The author is just fabbu`.
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ecsd, October 1, 2008 (view all comments by ecsd)
The most amusing thing about this book is that it is very difficult to know if the authors expected it to be taken seriously. It is, in essence, an excellent resource to anticipate all the propaganda that a neocon government would use on the public to incite more wars. Its "accuracy" in detailing the neocon distortions of reality, unfortunately, means that the book becomes a resource for neocons as well, unaware that the book was really meant to "out" them.

Anyone who believes that Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are "dictators" has obviously read nothing but the sources for this book. The chapter on Venezuela, a subject of personal interest, is virtually totally false.

So, here's a nice little litmus-test book: have someone read it, and understand how far away their views are from reality according to the degree they agree with what is said in this book.

Well worth having on your shelf if you'd like to have a good summary of well-researched lies. As much a resource for the people opposed to American Imperialism as for those who wish they could take the book's advice.
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Michael Moreau, March 17, 2008 (view all comments by Michael Moreau)
Uber-ironist Dave Eggers has outdone himself here. After picking it up three or four times since it arrived in the mail Friday, I really can't tell what I am reading. Is "Where to Invade Next" a parody of an actual government report referred to by Gen. Wesley Clark in the forward? Or is it the actual government report? There is a long list of sources, mostly of the neo-cons, bu then, at the end, there is a detailed list of editors and researchers. Are these members of the McSweeney staff?

The conclusion of the sections on all of the seven troublesome nations, is that our only solution is to invade them and destroy them.

Is McSweeney's advocating this, or is it advocating that all of life should be viewed ironically and cynically?

Either way, I fear, our geese are cooked.

Michael Moreau
Pasadena, California
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ISBN:
9781932416930
Author:
Elliott, Stephen
Publisher:
McSweeney's Books
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McSweeney's, Editors Of
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McSweeney's Books
Author:
McSweeney's Books
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
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Military policy
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International Relations
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Literary Criticism : General
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Publication Date:
20080231
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
90
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9.14x6.40x.53 in. .77 lbs.

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