get a politician involved

As I’ve been talking to people about this book, one comment I keep hearing is “You’ve got to get this thing in Obama’s hands”. Easier said than done, I’m sure. But the point of the book is to raise questions and to influence the debate. While it’s geat that these issues get talked about in [...]

Posted at 9am on 6/18/08 | 6 comments | Filed Under: The Book | read on

First review of the book.

From Publishers’ Weekly:
What We Could Have Done with the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We’ve Spent on Iraq
Rob Simpson. Hyperion, $9.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4013-2308-0
With acerbic wit and contagious indignation, Simpson examines how the United States could have better spent the trillion dollars allocated to fund the Iraq War. His 50 alternatives mix [...]

Posted at 1pm on 6/2/08 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Iraq War, The Book | read on