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English
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Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, this fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative tells the inside story of how the Bush administration used bad intelligence to sell—and then justify—the Iraq war.
Veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn take the listener behind the scenes at the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress, where controversial decisions
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English
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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state, " and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states, " Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping mall—much of it run by Halliburton. While qualified Americans willing to serve in Iraq are screened
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Typecast Releasing
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Arabic
Description
Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. American director James Longley spent more than...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In The Rise of ISIS, Martin Smith (Gangs of Iraq; Beyond Baghdad) draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians, and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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The former Iraqi Defense Minister examines what the United States did and didn't know at the time of the invasion, the reasons for the confused and contradictory polices, and the emergence of the Iraqi political class during the transition process.
11) State of denial
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English
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Examines the present state of national security decision-making, discussing how Bush's team at the White House, the Pentagon, CIA, and State Department have attempted to transform warfare; overcome security, intelligence and policy failures; and change the strategy of Iraq's occupation.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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A military journalist examines the changing strategies of the U.S. military in Iraq, arguing that American policies are opening a path to victory, if more slowly than most Americans expect, and setting the stage for a stabilized Iraq.
13) The Iraq War
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Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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"Discusses events in Iraq that lead up to the current war in Iraq, beginning with the end of the Persian Gulf War and continuing through the planned withdrawal for all coalition forces from the country"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Examines the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, following a diverse group of Iraqis from a life of fear under Saddam's rule, through the events of the invasion and the regime's fall, to America's seizure of power and its repercussions.
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English
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With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history.
