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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... 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 ...
... terrorist attacks . The bankruptcies of such established companies as Enron and WorldCom introduced the term " creative accounting " into the American lexicon and shook our faith in U.S. business leadership , as did the evidence that a ...
... assessment . The implicit syllogism ran as follows : a terrorist attack by a state against the United States would invite retaliation ; to invite retaliation is irrational ; states are ( now ) rational ; therefore no state INTRODUCTION 7.
... terrorist activity and evad- ing detection would represent a direct challenge to U.S. intelligence capabilities . The assertion , often repeated over the past year , that Iraq had been " successfully contained " reflected a confidence ...
... terrorists , terrorists who would willingly use weapons of mass destruction against America , and other peace- loving countries .... I think the threat is real , and so do a lot of other people in my government . And since I believe 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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