MORE ON THE LYING. This author believes the truth is secondary to the self esteem of the Iraqis. What a decidedly liberal position. Unfortunately this author is spreading around the same load of BS that Baghdad Bob did on behalf of Saddam...and the more these clearly delusional people read it, the harder it gets for the good guys.

The Americans dropped a "tactical nuclear bomb" on Iraqi forces. Saddam Hussein made a final radio broadcast hours after Baghdad fell, pausing three times to stop himself from breaking down on the air. And casualties among U.S.-led coalition forces? Twenty thousand dead.

Iraq's first homegrown book about the war that changed it forever is a 124-page hodgepodge of anti-American tirades and wartime rumors.

"Under the Ashes of the Stormy War," by Islamic author Alaa el-din al-Mudaris, also feeds the web of myths on the whereabouts and actions of Saddam during the crucial days before and after Baghdad's fall at U.S. hands on April 9.

"It's like a literary epic," al-Mudaris said in an interview in his office on the storied al-Motanabi street in Baghdad's old quarter.

"Some things in the book may not be true and the chronological order of events may not be 100 percent correct," he said, "but the book's aim is to restore confidence to Iraqis - to tell them, `You've fought courageously.'"

Read all the silliness here.