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<b>An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.</b><br> <br> <i>"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."</i>—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq<br> <br> Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, <i>The Freedom</i> provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.<br> <br> Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, an

Author

Parenti, Christian

Publisher

New Press ; Signature Books Services [distributor

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565849488

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

3.88 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14