The Iraq War Reader
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Here, in analysis and commentary from some of the world's leading writers and opinion makers -- and in the words of the key participants themselves -- is the engrossing saga of how oil economics, power politics, dreams of empire, nationalist yearnings, and religious fanaticism -- not to mention naked aggression, betrayal, and tragic miscalculation -- have conspired to bring us to the fateful collision of the West and the Arab world over Iraq. Contributors include:
Fouad Ajami
George W. Bush
Richard Butler
John le Carré
Noam Chomsky
Ann Coulter
Thomas Friedman
Al Gore
Seymour Hersh
Christopher Hitchens
Arianna Huffington
Saddam Hussein
Terry Jones
Robert Kagan
Charles Krauthammer
William Kristol
Nicholas Lemann
Kanan Makiya
Kevin Phillips
Kenneth Pollack
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Arundhati Roy
Edward Said
William Safire
Jonathan Schell
Susan Sontag
George Will
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Introduction and Acknowledgments
PART ONE SINS OF THE FATHERS
ONE Roots of Conflict: 1915-1989
Imperial Legacy
Phillip Knightley
The Rise of Saddam Hussein
Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie
What Washington Gave Saddam for Christmas
Murray Waas
The Men Who Helped the Man Who Gassed His Own People
Joost R. Hiltermann
TWO The First Gulf War
Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt
Christopher Hitchens
U.S. Senators Chat with Saddam
The Glaspie Transcript: Saddam Meets the U.S. Ambassador
The Experts Speak on the Coming Gulf War
edited by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky
How Saddam Misread the United States
Kenneth Pollack
PART TWO AFTERMATHS OF THE GULF WAR
THREE Saddam Survives
"We Have Saddam Hussein Still Here"
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn
Why We Didn't Go to Baghdad
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft
Why the Uprisings Failed
Faleh A. Jabar
How Saddam Held On to Power
Kanan Makiya
FOUR Casualties of War
What Bodies?
Patrick J. Sloyan
Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?
John R. MacArthur
"Thank God for the Patriot Missile!"
edited by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky
Did Iraq Try to Assassinate ex-President Bush in 1993?
A Case Not Closed
Seymour M. Hersh
FIVE Sanctions and Inspections
A Backgrounder on Inspections and Sanctions
Sarah Graham-Brown and Chris Toensing
The Inspections and the U.N.: The Blackest of Comedies
Richard Butler
The Hijacking of UNSCOM
Susan Wright
Behind the Scenes with the Iraqi Nuclear Bomb
Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein
SIX New Storms Brewing
An Open Letter to President Clinton: "Remove Saddam from Power"
Project for the New American Century
Statement: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front
Televised Address to the Nation: "The Costs of Action Must be Weighed Against the Price of Inaction"
President Bill Clinton
PART THREE WAR WITH IRAQ
SEVEN The Impact of September 11th
Reflections on September 11th
Susan Sontag
Voices of Moral Obtuseness
Charles Krauthammer
Against the War Metaphor
Hendrik Hertzberg
An Open Letter to President Bush: "Lead the World to Victory"
Project for the New American Century
A Year Later: What the Right and Left Haven't Learned
Marc Cooper
Better Safe Than Sorry
Mona Charen
The Enemy Within
Daniel Pipes
"First They Came for the Muslims..."
Anthony Lewis
Not the War We Needed
Barbara Ehrenreich
EIGHT The Bush Doctrine
What to Do About Iraq
Robert Kagan and William Kristol
State of the Union Speech: The Axis of Evil
President George W. Bush
The Next World Order
Nicholas Lemann
No Meeting in Prague
Robert Novak
Remarks at West Point: "New Threats Require New Thinking"
President George W. Bush
The New Bush Doctrine
Richard Falk
Inside the Secret War Council
Mark Thompson
NINE The Country Debates Going to War
War on What? The White House and the Debate About Whom to Fight Next
Nicholas Lemann
Don't Attack Saddam
Brent Scowcroft
Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "The Risks of Inaction Are Far Greater Than the Risk of Action"
Vice President Dick Cheney
Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
Noam Chomsky
Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq
Congressman Ron Paul
The War Party's Imperial Plans
Pat Buchanan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: "I Stand Before You Today a Multilaterialist"
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: "A Grave and Gathering Danger..."
President George W. Bush
Peace Puzzle
Michael Berube
Stuck to the U.N. Tar Baby
George Will
Against a Doctrine of Pre-emptive War
Former Vice President Al Gore
Why We Hate Them
Ann Coulter
What's Missing in the Iraq Debate
Peggy Noonan
Wars Are Never Fought for Altruistic Reasons
Arundhati Roy
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proof!
Arianna Huffington
The President's Real Goal in Iraq
Jay Bookman
The Imperialism Canard
Andrew Sullivan
TEN The Debate in Congress
Of Pre-emption and Appeasement, Box-Cutters and Liquid Gold: Excerpts from the October 10, 2002 House Debate
Representatives Charles Rangel, Howard Berman, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom DeLay, Richard Gephardt
Letter to Senator Bob Graham
CIA Director George Tenet
Iraq's Disarmament is Impossible Without Regime Change
Senator John McCain
No Place for Kings in America
Senator Robert C. Byrd
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq
Resolution of 2002
ELEVEN Regime Change: Why and Why Not
Two Faces, One Terror
Fouad Ajami
Deciphering the Bush Administration's Motives
Michael T. Klare
Can We Really Deter a Nuclear-Armed Saddam?
Kenneth Pollack
Why SaddamWants Weapons of Mass Destruction
Charles A. Duelfer
An Unnecessary War
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Suicide from Fear of Death?
Richard K. Betts
Bring Back the Draft
Representative Charles B. Rangel
The United States Has Gone Mad
John le Carré
Why I Am for Regime Change
Christopher Hitchens
An Unacceptable Helplessness
Edward Said
Why We Know Iraq Is Lying
Condoleezza Rice
I'm Losing Patience with My Neighbors, Mr. Bush
Terry Jones
TWELVE Last Dance at the U.N.
A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War
Glen Rangwala, Nathaniel Hurd and Alistair Millar
Iraq Has No Interest in War
Saddam Hussein (Interview with Tony Benn)
Presentation to the UN Security Council: A Threat to International Peace and Security
Secretary of State Colin Powell
MI6 and CIA: The New Enemy Within
Paul Lashmar and Raymond Whitaker
"Sleepwalking Through History"
Senator Robert Byrd
The Second Superpower
Micah L. Sifry
The Yes-But Parade
William Safire
Hawks Have My Head, Doves Have My Heart, Guess Which Wins?
Ian McEwan
Promises Abroad, While at Home Promises Go Forgotten
Derrick Jackson
The Long Bomb
Thomas L. Friedman
U.S.-British Draft Resolution On Iraq
Iraq's Disarmament Can Be Achieved By Peaceful Means
(The Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and Germany)
The War Begins: "The Tyrant Will Soon Be Gone"
President George W. Bush
Pre-emptive Defeat, or How Not to Fight Proliferation
Jonathan Schell
PART FOUR THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
THIRTEEN The Future of Iraq
Iraq: The Imperial Precedent
Charles Tripp
The Fifty-first State?
James Fallows
Speech at the American Enterprise Institute: "Iraq Is Fully Capable of Living in Freedom"
President George W. Bush
The Post-Saddam Problem
Dilip Hiro
Saddam's Real Opponents
Frank Smyth
In Iraqi Kurdistan
Tim Judah
Post-Saddam Iraq: Linchpin of a New Oil Order
Michael Renner
Our Hopes Betrayed: The U.S. Blueprint for Post-Saddam Government
Kanan Makiya
FOURTEEN The Future of Pax Americana
The Unipolar Moment Revisited: America, the Benevolent Empire
Charles Krauthammer
America's Mission, After Baghdad
Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol608
America's Dreams of Empire
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Catastrophe as the Generator of Historical Change: The Iraq Case
Richard Butler
Regime Change
Lewis H. Lapham
Hegemony, Hubris and Overreach
Kevin Phillips
Appendixes
1. Key U.N. Resolutions2. A Who's Who of the Iraqi Opposition
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index
About the Editors
