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Midnight in Samarra

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This book was fast paced. Hard to put down. It flowed well and it was very well written. It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.

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This was a fantastic story of the war pre and post 9/11. Frank Ford did a superb job explaining the workings of the war "machine". My emotions were on a roller coaster. I wanted to cry, at times as Ford brought the altruistic to life. He message was heartfelt and he intrigued the reader at every turn of the page. Thank you sir for your service.

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This is a poignant story concerning why the Iraqi invasion to find WMD's was based on lies and how the main players used the war for their own benefit both financial and political.
Frank Gregory Ford has taken great courage outing those responsible as a whistle-blower during and after the Iraq war even being falsely diagnosed as mentally unstable.
Well written with a lesson that his story should be a warning to all that democracy is fragile and disappears in a blink if complacency sets in.
Thanks to NetGalley and Hot Books

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This book is the ramblings of a soldier who seems to be everywhere in Iraq.. Inaccuracies such As stating “I saw the two stars of a major general, and the crossed bars of an artillery specialist. What I did not see on the chest of this chap who had surely come to Iraq on a special
intel mission was the distinctive but discreet rose-and-helios pin of military intelligence”. General officers do not wear branch insignia and no one wore it with desert camouflage uniforms or DCUs as they were commonly called.

The book cover claims this to be The true story of WMD, green, and high crimes in a rock. However it lacks documentation or evidence to place it as a book worth reading. It could best be described as akin to a grocery store tabloid.

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