By: Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky
Illustrator: Robert Grossman
Paperback Edition
March 2008


From the folks at the Institute of Expertology who brought you The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation comes Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq, the definitive, footnoted, hilarious but depressing compilation of experts who were in error about the Iraq War.

From MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
-- President George W. Bush, May 2, 2003

"[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces."
-- L. Paul Bremer III, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, November 17, 2003

"Military action will not last more than a week."
-- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, January 23, 2003

"I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah."
-- President George W. Bush, at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, December 10, 2001