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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... fact demonstrated that this was not really so , and that even bin Laden and al Qaeda had a ter- ritorial base that could be denied to them by military action . There was also a far more serious flaw in this general assessment . The ...
... facts , as we shall see in later chapters . Similarly , the sustained diplomatic effort called the " Middle East Peace Process , " which began with the 1993 Oslo accords , was premised on the conviction that " rational " actors like ...
... 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 campaign to undercut it , is crucial to understanding both ...
... fact another distinct , and very lethal , terrorist " network " that appeared to center on Yousef , confirming our view of the importance of this man's identity . The Washington bureaucracies had not simply dropped the ball ; in effect ...
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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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