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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... 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 ...
... that it's difficult to understand why so many commentators not only dismissed such concerns , but also could not fathom that anyone actually took them seriously . The Party Is So Over IT'S HARD TO RECALL just how giddy and dizzying the.
... 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 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 ...
... serious suspicion . Iraqi intelligence had ample time to tamper with them . It is more than likely that the Kuwaiti records on which the identities of these terrorist masterminds are based belonged to individuals who died ( possibly ...
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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 | |