Author: Thomas E. Ricks List Price: $27.95 Pages: 496 Publisher: Penguin Press HC ISBN: 159420103X

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Quotes from the author of Fiasco, Thomas Ricks: "Reporting the book was a pretty emotional experience. Even having covered this war as it unfolded, I was taken aback by the rage that some officers felt toward the Bush Administration, and especially toward Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. And also toward Paul Wolfowitz, who was then the no. 2 guy at the Pentagon. I think the rage is probably like what the military felt about Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. What is unprecedented, I think, is that many officers had doubts about the wisdom of invading Iraq, especially in the way we did it." "Even more significantly, I think the Bush Administration doesn't really like "stability" in the Middle East. In its view, "stability" has been the goal of previous administrations, but pursuing it led to 9/11. It is not the goal, it is the target. So they are for rolling the dice, both in Iraq and in Lebanon. I think the big worry is those wars spilling over borders. Fasten your seat belts." 作者在本書中毫無保留地批評美國軍方，并描述了伊拉克囚犯被虐的慘況，更形容布什政府的伊拉克政策是“美國史上最差勁的戰爭計劃”。 About Author Thomas E. Ricks, The Washington Post's Pentagon correspondent, covered the war from Washington, drawing on Post reporters' dispatches from the front lines. He has also visited Iraq twice in the postwar period.   Thomas E. Ricks，《華盛頓郵報》資深記者，曾兩次身赴戰后伊拉克進行采訪。