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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... major , covert program to topple 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 ...
... major acts of aggression against the United States , because ( they claimed ) he was a rational actor , interested above all in his own survival , and because the threat he feared above all others was retaliation by the United States ...
... major states , however , and their numbers were small - and so it was assumed , conveniently , that their ability to cause serious harm was limited . If major dangers existed , we were told , they were more likely to come from nonstate ...
... major acts of terrorism against the United States : the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center , masterminded by the indi- vidual known as Ramzi Yousef ; and the audacious 1995 plot - mercifully derailed to bomb a dozen U.S. ...
... major tabloids , including the National Enquirer ) . Five days 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 ...
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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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