It has become an outraged truism amongst many critics of George W. Bush's occupation and invasion of Iraq that "the President lied us into war" by proclaiming the imminent danger posed by Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" that turned out, in point of fact, not to exist. But as Quigley (law, Ohio State U.) demonstrates in this volume, this is hardly a new phenomenon in United States history, where the justifications for and explanations of virtually every US military action or imperial intervention since World War II has been based on, to use Quigley's somewhat more polite term, "ruses" hiding the truth from the American public. In this new edition, which brings the material up to date with the Iraq occupation, he describes and debunks these false explanations and justifications for the Korean and Vietnam wars and interventions in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. While not every US intervention is covered for the post-World War II era (recent coup interventions, successful and unsuccessful respectively, in Haiti and Venezuela are noticeably missing), the breadth of coverage is enough to provide the reader with an understanding of both the wide ranging nature of US interventionism and the ubiquity of dissimulation when it comes to presenting explanations for said interventionism, if not any significantly detailed understanding of the actual root causes of US interventionism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)