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More copies of this ISBNEnding the Iraq War: A Primerby Phyllis Bennis
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Even before the US invasion of Iraq, challenging questions were on the rise. Why did three separate US administrations all agree on maintaining crippling economic sanctions on Iraq? Was it really the UN that imposed those international sanctions? Why was the second Bush administration so determined to go after Saddam Hussein? What was Operation Iraqi Freedom all about? What did oil have to do with it? Is the US occupation of Iraq connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Are those who oppose the war really anti-American and soft on terrorism? Even if the US mainstream press ignores many of these questions, independent analysts have examined them since before the war began. Phyllis Bennis was one of the many Middle East and UN-watchers who anticipated disaster long before the first US troops crossed into Iraq. Here, in an easy-to-read, Frequently Asked Questions format, Institute for Policy Studies scholar Bennis provides clear, unambiguous, and honest answers to these and many more queries. With the Bush administration and most Democratic presidential candidates for the 2008 elections agreeing that US troops will remain in Iraq indefinitely this handy guide is a must-read. Book News Annotation:Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies) offers a primer on the causes
and consequences of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in the
form of 45 questions and answers. Her primary goal appears to be
correcting common misconceptions about the war that are often
promulgated by the American corporate media. Thus, she dispels the
idea that the "surge worked" and the idea that the Iraqis wanted the
United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein in concise but accurate
terms within the very first five questions. Other topics she
addresses in a similar manner are the costs of the war for Iraqis and
Americans alike, the true nature of the "democracy" brought to Iraq,
the question of partition, the issue of war crimes, the role of
"private military contractors," the role of oil in US government
motivations, the relationship of terrorism to the war, the UN's role
in the war, international opinion about the war, and host of topics
concerning how to end the war.
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