[2] The book reports that United Nations staff in Iraq constantly fed information to Operation Rockingham.

[2] The cherry-picking approach was described to have been undertaken at the direction of the British government and led to the production of the infamous "Dodgy Dossier".

[2] Mackay credits Michael Meacher for his critique of Operation Rockingham[2] and documents how the events damaged the reputation of Tony Blair.

[2] The book describes how Republican American efforts to push for the war made a military intervention a foregone conclusion.

[2] Coats calls the book "splendid" several times and celebrates that Mackay has combined his years of reporting into a "highly lethal single volume".