Foreword by Cindy Sheehan
Preface
Introduction
PART 1: Waiting for the Skies to Rain Missiles
Chapter 1: Into Iraq
Chapter 2: The Guardians of Reality Do Their Thing
Chapter 3: Just Minutes Until Midnight
PART 2: Iraqi Voices
Chapter 4: The News in the New Iraq
Chapter 5: Baghdad College High School
Chapter 6: From ‘Keep Yo Head,’ to ‘God Bless Us All’: U.S. and Iraqi Students Begin a Conversation
Chapter 7: Faris: Friend and Translator
Chapter 8: Two Mysterious Deaths and the Incident Near Ramadi
Chapter 9: On Their Way to Abu Ghraib
Chapter 10: Inside the Wire at Abu Hishma
Chapter 11: Democracy, Dictators and the Fate of Widad Shwaish
PART 3: Activists, Journalists, Soldiers and Clowns
Chapter 12: Welcome Back to Baghdad
Chapter 13: Courage Under Fire
Chapter 14: How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Indiana Farm Once They’ve Seen Kerbala?
Chapter 15: From an Act of Desperation to a Million Hits a Day
Chapter 16: Springtime in Fallujah
Chapter 17: Uncommon Mom
Chapter 18: Albanian Mafia and Other Stories from Circus 2 Iraq
Chapter 19: Cops and Clowns
Chapter 20: Hanging With the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
Conclusion: Leaving Iraq
Afterword: Where Are They Now?
Dedication:
To the common heroes in the peace movement who tried to stop this war before it began; to the people of Iraq, from whom we have much to learn about being compassionate and humane despite the hellish conditions we have created in their land; to the veterans of this war who will not come home and those who come back committed to telling the truth about what their government sent them to do.
