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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... serious debate about the wisdom of engaging in war with Iraq , many observers were struck by the incongruity of some of the positions taken in opposition to the war . On the one hand there was the frightening , if unfounded , image of ...
... seriously . The Party Is So Over IT'S HARD TO RECALL just how giddy and dizzying the 1990s were . We had won the 1991 Gulf War handily , finally laying to rest ( it seemed ) the ghost of Vietnam . The Soviet Union , our great.
... Serious military planning began around the same time . Nonetheless , three months 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 ...
... serious concern for the larger policy implications of one's limited task is generally considered " naive " : the " sophisticates " avoid thinking above their pay grade . There was a general inability within the bureaucracies to compre ...
... serious harm was limited . If major dangers existed , we were told , they were more likely to come from nonstate actors , particularly religious extremists such as Osama bin Laden . They alone did not march to the drum of reason . To ...
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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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