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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... later , in July , Richard Haass , director of policy planning in the State Department , suggested to Rice that they should discuss the pros and cons of confronting Iraq . Rice replied that there was no point ; the president had already ...
... 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 Hafız al Assad and Yasser ...
... later certainly fueled that speculation . But in late 2001 , with the United States still engaged in Afghanistan , unattrib- uted leaks began to appear in the media designed to systematically dis- credit any information that might ...
... later , the CIA was still dealing with the same Iraqi exiles who had promised , and failed , to deliver such a coup . Simi- larly , the State Department generally looked to Iraq's old guard - the Ba'athists to provide the basis for a ...
... later , Stevens was taken to the emergency room at Palm Beach County Hospital . The initial diagnosis was meningitis , and Stevens was treated with a course of antibiotics . Further consultations , however , yielded the correct diagno ...
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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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