Bush vs. the Beltway: The Inside Battle Over War in IraqHarper Collins, 14 дек. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 306 As the postwar debate continues, a leading expert reveals the obstacles that stood between the United States and the fall of Saddam Hussein -- many of them within the U.S. government itself Laurie Mylroie's previous books, the number one New York Times bestseller Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf (coauthored with Judith Miller) and The War Against America, were influential in building the case against Iraq. Now Mylroie reveals the story behind the buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a story known to few outside of Washington. Combining important new research with an insider's grasp of Beltway politics, Mylroie describes how the CIA and the State Department have systematically discredited critical intelligence about Saddam's regime, including indisputable evidence of its possession of weapons of mass destruction. She reveals how major elements of the case against Iraq -- including information about possible links to al Qaeda and evidence of potential Iraqi involvement in the fall 2001 anthrax attacks -- were prematurely dismissed by these agencies for cynical reasons. Mylroie traces how the very idea of state-sponsored terrorism was pronounced dead after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, giving states like Iraq an open ing to underwrite terrorism without being detected. And she demonstrates that the war with Iraq was not only justifiable -- but the necessary and moral course of action. Bush vs. the Beltway also includes an authoritative essay by Professor Robert F. Turner of the University of Virginia School of Law, who makes the case that -- based on not only standing U.N. resolutions but the totality of circumstances surrounding Saddam's regime -- the war was justified on both legal and moral grounds. As the world enters a new era in international relations, one in which the new realities of terror mingle deceptively with eternal truths about war, intelligence, tyranny, and evil, Bush vs. the Beltway offers sobering lessons in the realities of twenty-first-century conflict. |
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... October 2002 , the consensus among CIA analysts was still that Saddam was unlikely to commit acts of terrorism— whether using weapons of mass destruction or even conventional attacks , under the current circumstances . The one situation ...
... October 6 , the New York City Health Department was notified , and the powder remaining in the envelope was sent to the Centers for Disease Control , which confirmed that it was indeed anthrax . A month later , it was learned that a ...
... October 7, the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began. This was the first phase of the U.S. response to the September 11 attacks, and it would soon result in the fall of the Taliban and the defeat of al Qaeda. Just two days later—October 9 ...
... October 2001 . Senator Leahy warned that the tiny amount of anthrax in just one of the letters was sufficient to cause 100,000 deaths . The army's premier anthrax expert , John Ezzell , was especially worried . The evident level of ...
... October 2001. Tsonas , like many other American doctors , had by that time familiarized himself with the previously all but unknown symptoms of anthrax . As the agents read him his own notes of al - Haznawi's emergency room visit ...
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BUREAUCRATINZING THE INTELLIGENCE | |
THE NEW REGIME IN IRAQ | |
THE 1990S PEACE PROCESS AND | |
THE BATTLE OF THE BELTWAY | |
KNOW THE ENEMY | |
WAS OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM LEGAL? | |
CONCLUSION | |
INDEX | |
AFTERWORD | |
About the Author | |