Bush Vs. the Beltway: The Inside Battle Over War in IraqHarper Collins, 10 авг. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 272 As the dust settles over Baghdad, a leading expert on Iraq tells the story of the obstacles that stood between the US and the fall of Saddam – and reveals that many of them came from within the US government itself Laurie Mylroie's previous books on Iraq, the No 1 New York Times bestseller Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf (co–authored by Judith Miller) and The War Against America, made the persuasive case that Saddam's regime had a long history of brutality and state sponsorship of terror, including involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Her work was highly influential in building the case against Saddam that led to the recent war in Iraq. Now Mylroie takes on the story behind the buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom, in Bush vs. the Beltway.
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... Saddam could be counted on not to share his " crown jewels " -his weapons of mass destruction— with terrorist agents . Along the same lines , others held that he would unleash such weapons only if he faced certain military defeat . It ...
... Saddam . Expectations were low - yet even if it did not succeed , it would help pre- pare the way for military action , as the agency identified targets and intensified its intelligence gathering . On January 28 , during his State of ...
... Saddam's son - in - law Hussein Kamil ( who had actually supervised those pro- grams ) defected to Jordan . Not only many public commentators , but also much of the national security bureaucracy itself maintained that Saddam would not ...
... Saddam Hussein has a long history of reckless aggression and terrible crimes . He possesses weapons of terror . He provides funding and training and safe haven to terrorists , terrorists who would willingly use weapons of mass ...
... That evi- dence , along with the bureaucratic campaign to undercut it , is crucial to understanding both the war itself and the challenges posed in the post- Saddam era . The International Context THE QUESTION OF TERRORISM was not the.
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TWO Deception and Selfdeception | 43 |
THREE Bureaucratizing the Intelligence | 62 |
FOUR The New Regime in Iraq | 80 |
FIVE The 1990s Peace Process and the Underlying | 105 |
SIX The Battle of the Beltway | 123 |
SEVEN Know the Enemy | 146 |
EIGHT Was Operation Iraqi Freedom Legal? | 164 |
Conclusion | 211 |
Afterword | 229 |
Notes | 251 |
Index | 268 |
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