By Christian Parenti

Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy. The Freedom provides a fearless and un-sanitized look at how the war is unfolding. We enter Baghdad as most journalists do - in a convoy of GMC Suburbans racing 95 miles-an-hour in tight, side-by-side formation. Once in the city, we encounter a relative of Saddam's who's scraping by while his father feeds money to the resistance; a former Fedayeen fighter who loves Limp Bizkit and Michael Bolton; the underage prostitutes who service U.S. soldiers and are hunted by religious vigilantes; the freshly minted MBAs who run the Coalition Provisional Authority's projects on privatization; the somnambulant American press corps and its fierce counterparts from al Jazeera and al Arabia. Finally, we are embedded with US troops, the unworldly working-class kids left holding the bag, forced to die for a war many of them don't support.

Published Date: 01/11/2004 Format: HardBack ISBN: 1-56584-948-5 Publisher: The New Press Rating: Retail price: US Dollar $ 21.95 (Rs. 1,570.30) Our price: Rs. 1,225.00 You Save: Rs. 345.30 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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