Nothing But A Lie

A Lament for our Fallen in Iraq

Voice actress Mona Abboud was home sick at the end of January 2004 reading the obituaries in her local paper of some of the young men and women who have died in the Iraq War. Abboud was struck by a melody, and went to her piano to play what became "Nothing But a Lie," a mournful, folk-inflected song which is both tribute to the soldiers at war and a call to action for peace.

"I have been upset about this war since the bombs had dropped. Into my head this song came in its entirety," says Abboud, her usually chipper voice trembling with emotion. "It came all at once word for word, with the music, like it was channeled through me."

- From Screen Magazine

Featured on the Thom Hartman's radio show during "Faces of War"

"Suburban protest song adds to political battle of the bands," by Burt Constable, The Daily Herald, September 4, 2004

"Martini Shot," by Julie Mynott, Screen Magazine, August 23, 2004

"Voice-over actress turns microphone against war," Courier News , August 8, 2004

Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

Iraqi Civilian War Casualties

"Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq," Christopher Scheer, Alternet, June 27, 2003

"20 Lies About the War," UK Independent, Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker, 13 July 2003

"Woman Dies After Son Killed in Iraq; 'Her grief was so intense -- it seemed it could have harmed her, could have caused a heart attack.'" -- Associated Press, October 5, 2004

"The fact is, at the time the war was launched, Iraq did not possess the non-conventional weapons capability that the US and Britain alleged." -- "Weapons and the war," The Guardian, September 26, 2003