Includes bibliographical references.

"Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge - reports of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and residential neighborhoods, accounts of secret war-planning meetings held long before the invasion, photographs from Abu Ghraib prison - Americans have begun an agonizing reappraisal of the Iraq war and the way in which their government has conducted it." "Drawing on a wide range of documents - from the protocols of the Geneva Convention, to FBI e-mails about treatment of detainees, to executive branch papers justifying the circumvention of international law - In the Name of Democracy examines the legality of the Iraq war and the occupation that followed. Included in this powerful investigation are eyewitness accounts, victim testimonials, statements by soldiers turned resisters and whistle-blowers, and contributions by Senator Robert Byrd, President Jimmy Carter, John W. Dean, Elizabeth Holtzman, Mark Danner, Richard Falk, Seymour Hersh, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.