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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... But this suggestion reflects a fundamental misunderstanding . What these critics had no way of knowing was that the Pentagon had just completed a review of counterterrorism policy , and Rumsfeld already had some reason to.
... reason to sus- pect that Iraq may have been involved.3 On September 17 , 2001 , following a weekend meeting with his se- nior advisers at Camp David , Bush told a National Security Council meeting , " I believe Iraq was involved , but I ...
... reason . To begin with , they were fanatics , with followers ready to die in pursuit of their hatreds . And they appeared to enjoy a unique exemption from the constraint of deterrence : they could act against the United States without ...
... period . There was little reason to believe Saddam Hussein would hesitate to play the same game of using proxies for his terrorist aims . Confronting a Grave Threat AMERICANS GENERALLY did not understand the 8 BUSH VS. THE BELTWAY.
... reason why the FBI very quickly sug- gested that the anthrax had been produced by a lone American terrorist , even formally naming its investigation " Amerithrax " -a title that cer- tainly seemed to prejudge the outcome 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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