The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq
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The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

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The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq

About this book

Coming at the heels of September 11, Operation Iraqi Freedom has focused the limelight on the way in which the United States predicts and manages political change. The failure to find WMD and more important, the continued violence in Iraq instead of the hoped for democracy, has engender an acrimonious debate on the motives of the Bush administration and its uses or misuses of intelligence. The question of who got what right or wrong has been fought out along ideological, and partisan lines, with supporters claiming that, given what was known about Saddam Hussein, the decision to change his regime was justified and detractors arguing that a group of largely Jewish neoconservatives, acting on behalf of Israel, manipulated intelligence in order to trick the United States into an unnecessary and costly war. The book provides a systematic and objective analysis of the problems that faced American intelligence in deciphering the behavior of the highly secretive and confusing Iraq regime and its enigmatic leader.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq
  3. Contents
  4. Series Editor’s Foreword
  5. Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Predicting Political Change
  6. 1 Paradigmatic Views of Political Change in the Middle East: Arab Exceptionalism and theInternational Order
  7. 2 P aradigms of Change andAmerican Foreign Policy towardIraq in the 1980s: Moderating aTotalitarian Regime and theRoad to the Gulf War
  8. 3 Containing a Rogue State:The Iraq Policy of the ClintonAdministration
  9. 5 The Buildup to OperationIraqi Freedom: ImplementingDemocratic Universalism
  10. 6 Operation Iraqi Freedom:The Rise and Fall ofDemocratic Universalism
  11. 7 Reflections on the IraqiPredictive Predicament
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index