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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... his hawkish neoconservative advis- ers . The war against Iraq was treated as a distraction from the war on terrorism , rather than as a key element of it . 2 BUSH VS. THE BELTWAY Dismissing the Threat SOME OF Introduction.
... terrorism because Saddam could be counted on not to share his " crown jewels " -his weapons of mass destruction— with terrorist agents . Along the same lines , others held that he would unleash such weapons only if he faced certain ...
... terrorism On April 4 , 2002 , Bush told a British television journalist , " I made up my mind that Hussein needs to go . " Pressed for further detail , Bush would only say , " The policy of my government is that he goes . " 5 Bush also ...
... terrorism - whether using weapons of mass destruction or even conventional attacks , under the current circumstances . The one situa- tion in which Saddam's calculations were likely to change , according to these analysts , would be if ...
... terrorism against the United States . What this logic failed to acknowledge was the possibility that a state ( such ... terrorist activity and evad- ing detection would represent a direct challenge to U.S. intelligence capabilities . 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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