In this careful and comprehensive study of the United States' war on Iraq, Hartnett and Stengrim offer a critique of the Bush administration's arguments for waging war, an examination of the foreign policy principles driving the war, an analysis of the economic dilemmas of globalization, and an expose of the inner workings of the reconstruction of Iraq.

Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and author of Democratic Dissent & the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Laura Ann Stengrim is a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois and a contributor to Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies.