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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... administration : Saddam was " in his box . " That assessment had in fact changed very little in 2002 and 2003 , even as the United States prepared for war . In October 2002 , the con- sensus among CIA analysts was still that Saddam was ...
... administration's efforts to avoid causing panic by revealing in detail Iraq's potential for terror . But the president did explain the threat in general terms in early March 2003 , on the eve of war : Saddam Hussein has a long history ...
... administration began to make its case for war . In fact , substantial evidence did exist to tie Iraq to al Qaeda , and to suggest that Iraq was involved in the September 11 attacks . That evi- dence , along with the bureaucratic ...
... administration's invocation of humanitarian grounds somehow detracted from the persuasiveness of its claims regarding imminent threat . Turner presents a broader view , invoking the " totality of cir- cumstances " and pointing to the ...
... administration of exaggerating , even manufacturing , evi- dence regarding Iraq's weapons programs . But in all the impassioned debate leading up to the war , there was never any serious question among experts on the issue of proscribed ...
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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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