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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... national security . Ironically , though , individuals in the private sector are far more likely than those in government to be held to account for egregiously inappropriate behavior , even though the conse- quences of government ...
... National Security Council meeting , " I believe Iraq was involved , but I'm not going to strike them now . I don't have the evidence at this point . " Bush had already decided to target Osama bin Laden , al Qaeda , and the Taliban , but ...
... national security bureaucracy itself maintained that Saddam would not use those weapons , or commit other major acts of aggression against the United States , because ( they claimed ) he was a rational actor , interested above all in ...
... National Security Council Adviser , Anthony Lake , were a handful of " backlash states , " a small group of rogues including Iraq and North Korea , which had not decided to get with the program . These were not major states , however ...
... National Security Law at the University of Virginia , for a cogent and comprehensive analysis of the case in international law . As he makes clear , there are three distinct principles that can be invoked to argue the legality of 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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