"Courageous ... a frank and brave appraisal of one of the most potent issues facing our nation."

--- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“Glantz's account is full of interviews with ordinary Iraqis, and from their evolving thoughts and experiences he builds a critique of the many American misconceptions about Iraq, one that castigates equally the left's knee-jerk preconceptions, the occupation authorities' cluelessness and heavy-handed misrule and the media's lack of interest in the suffering of Iraqis. The result is a nuanced and hard-hitting indictment.”
--Publishers’ Weekly

“Aaron Glantz' courageous, unembedded journalism explains the reality of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq with a clarity and perspective sorely lacking in the mainstream media. He incisively cuts through the fog of war and Pentagon chatter, getting close to the story, as all journalists should. How America Lost Iraq is essential reading as the saber rattling in Washington continues.”
--Amy Goodman, host Democracy Now!, co-author: Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them

"A no holds barred look at our Iraq quagmire … an important first-person document historians will look to in the future as they draw a more complete picture of America's catastrophic victory in Iraq.
---Seattle Times

"[Glantz's] effort to be an honest reporter, and not a propagandist, makes for the most powerful tensions in this book. .. excellent reporting."
--the Progressive

"In an era of so-called embedded reporting, when the voices of the Iraqi people are virtually silent on U.S. mainstream airwaves, Glantz conveys the heartbreaking, emotional and often conflicted perspectives of a nation that has traded one brand of oppression for another."
--Inter Press News Service (Rome)

"Entering Iraq shortly after U.S. soldiers in 2003, Glantz found heartening and surprising support for the war. ... Then America frittered away that goodwill by failing to restore the power and water systems that were destroyed in the invasion and by harsh, indefinite detentions of ordinary citizens....The words of the Iraqis he interviewed in 2004 are convincing: The United States is no longer welcome there."
--Sacramento News and Review

"How America Lost Iraq (Penguin) is the story of a news reporter who had the journalistic integrity to investigate Iraq from the viewpoint of the everyday inhabitants of the country. He was not embedded with the U.S. military while posing in a flak jacket or fatigues. Glantz lived in their towns and cities, sometimes in hotels and sometimes in the actual homes of the people. He was their voice in America, trying to shatter the two-dimensional caricatures of extremists or refugees that make up the American perception of these people."
--Shepherd Express (Milwaukee)

"How America Lost Iraq (Penguin) is the story of a news reporter who had the journalistic integrity to investigate Iraq from the viewpoint of the everyday inhabitants of the country. He was not embedded with the U.S. military while posing in a flak jacket or fatigues. Glantz lived in their towns and cities, sometimes in hotels and sometimes in the actual homes of the people. He was their voice in America, trying to shatter the two-dimensional caricatures of extremists or refugees that make up the American perception of these people."
--Shepherd Express (Milwaukee)

“Good for Glantz! Aaron puts an ear to the conversations of Iraqi civilians and reveals just how little Americans have understood. He does what the embedded media can't and takes a look at the US military through the perspective of Iraqi people. How did US soldiers go from being liberators (in some Iraqi's eyes) to oppressors in just a few short months. Find out. A fascinating piece of intrepid reporting. Well done.”
--Laura Flanders, host The Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio and author of Bushwomen

"Glantz's … book is packed with Iraqi voices. Voices missing from the American press. Voices missing from American debate. The interviews are wrenching and vital. And Glantz's respect for his subjects and the effect these interactions have on him is moving."
---The Portland Alliance

“Bush’s war was sold with propaganda echoed by media from Fox to the New York Times. Brave, young, independent journalist Aaron Glantz learned first-hand the painful lessons that every American had better understand to prevent future military escapades that undermine real security and freedom. Shut off your TV, put down the paper, and read the gripping truth of How America Lost Iraq.”
--John Stauber, co-author, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq

“Ignorance is one of the main reasons of the current conflicts. Fighting it requires courageous journalists like Aaron Glantz. How America Lost Iraq, reflects courage and strong willingness to promote truth, and defy lies. “
--Jamal Tahat, collumnist, al-Rai'i newspaper, Amman, Jordan