Bush vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror

by Laurie Mylroie

Book Overview

As the dust settles over Baghdad, a leading expert on Iraq tells the story of the obstacles that stood between the US and the fall of Saddam - and reveals that many of them came from within the US... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060580127
• ISBN13: 9780060580124
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The truth behind the "mainstream media" story on Iraq

Laurie Milroie writes a very convincing book on the truth behind the conflict between the CIA and the White House. This is a very insightful book on what goes on behind the scenes in Washington. The CIA and the State Dept had evidence of the complicity between Al Queada and Saddam Hussien. Laurie clearly details why the itelligence was not and is not still the Public knowledge norm for the war in Iraq. It seems clear that the CIA to avoid embarrasment and for fear of losing power inside of Washington is continously discrediting such information to this day. Not only did the CIA endanger our national security before 9/11 it is till doing so in a power struugle in our intelligence community today. Laurie also detail meetings between Iraqi intelligence and Muhammed Atta in the Chec Repuclic before the 9/11 attacks. The Checks still very much say this meeting took place. Yet this report is discredited by anoynomous leaks coming from sources inside the CIA. Also very important links show how Iraqi intelligence altered records of terrorists in Kuwati intelligence files during their occupation of Kuwait during the first Gulf War. There same terrorists are the very ones behind attacks on the USS Cole, The First World Trade Center Bombing, The Sept 11 attacks. Laurie also sheds light on Saddams revenge tactics on Egypt for participation in the first Gulf War. Saddam was complicit in a major terrorist attack on the tourists at Luxor in 1997. Saddam and his regimes evil is very much a subject of Ms Mylroies book which makes the most important humanitarian reason for the war in Iraq. Saddam was funneling money from the oil for food program and using it for his own weapons programs and funding of terrorist camps inside of Iraq. Which the main stream media refuses to admit Al Queada members trained in to hijack airplanes. All this while his people starved. Or if you openly dissented you where killed or tortured, or your family was tortured in front of you. And the U.N. and the world community did nothing. Read this book. You will learn alot of the inner workings inside the beltway. And Praise G.W. Bush for fighting a just war in Iraq. Thank You Laurie Mylroie

WOW

I thought this was a really good book. It is the second book by this author that I have read since 9/11. Much of what she has discovered and shares in her books she gathered from the public record, especially the trial of the first World Trade Center bombing. This book is timely, especially with the problems in our intelligence agencies. The author tried to share information with the spies, but they aren't interested unless they discover it themselves. And many times they don't even know what is available already in the public record. The book also reveals how the lifetime employees of the CIA and State Department often promote their own self interests over those of the U.S. Scary. Most revealing is the relationship between Iraq and Saddam and 9/11. I fully believe that Saddam was involved. Book also reveals that many of the worst bad guys may be from a very small part area of the world. Revealing book, which I highly recommend.

How career centered analysts ignored the obvious

Laurie Mylroie worked for Bill Clinton as an Iraq adivsor during his 92 campaign so Republicans can rejoice that a former agent of the left brings forth evidence that not only vindicates the necessity to bring down the Saddam regime because of what the rest of the world, and indeed the UN security council, knew to be direct ties to terrorists, which include Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden, but also shows the remnants of State Department and CIA bureaucratic conformity to 8 years of Clinton foreign policy and beyond that its employees refused to shed and endangered the US. This is compounded by evidence of "Annonymous Sources" going out and trying to discredit reports and press releases that were properly vetted by their superiors.The final chapter, guest authored by Professor Robert Turner (cofounder of Center for National Security Law, professor of International Law at the naval war college, and former chair of the American Bar Association's Standing committee on Law and National Security) even offers explicit proof that the claims that Iraqi freedom was an Illegal engagement are groundless and in fact was probably more legal then engagements in Bosnia and most other military conflicts in the last half century. He even offers an endictment of the UN for fail to meet its Charter responsibility of using prevention to address aggression and human rights violations rather than responding to them after the fact.In the end, this book shows a frightening connection between Iraq and Terrorists that was overlooked and even dismissed in the face of overwhelming evidence from around the globe. Some of this evidence dates back to 1993 from the chief FBI investegator of the first World Trade Center bombing.

mandatory reading for serious people

Chapter Seven is the crucible brief which Ms. Mylroie lays out for those of us who maintain an open mind on state sponsored terrorism by Iraq. It becomes understandable in these Byzantine times how and why a terrorist state such as Iraq would and could create a double blind strategy using willing mercenaries most likely from that terrorist cauldron of Baluchastan with "legends" created during the Kuwaiti occupation; who could wreak havoc on a lulled America preoccupied with limp wristed political leadership - and to have the finger of blame pointed at vacuous Saudi identities of the perpetrators to achieve the dual purpose of wrecking the U.S. economy and imploding the Saudi Kingdom;brilliantly removing "the scales from the eyes" revelations.bob hardy, vergennes, vt

Bureaucratic Bungling and the Damage Done.

Holy Smokes you would think that this book would be getting lots more press due to the sheer explosive content. Its almost like no one wants to address the facts this book raise. Why not? Is the conventional wisdom so sure of itself about Iraq's involvement in terrorist attacks against this country? I dont see any conservative websites covering this book, no libetarian sites covering this book, no liberal websites (well ok that would destroy their attacks on the President so I understand) but sheesh. Are we in an alternate universe? James Woolsey, Richard Perle and others write high praise of the book, its released and then drops off the scope? It doesnt deserve this anonymity, it deserves to be debated and talked about on the news and either debunked, unlikely, or a major fuss made about the type of Bureaucratic bungling outlined in the book.This book isnt written by some tinfoil beenie cap wearing nutcase but the expert that President Clinton called on during his campaign to advise him on Iraq, she has taught at Harvard and the Navy War College....she needs to be listened to and debated. Buy this book and you will see why. Its obvious from her passion on the subject that she is driven to make herself heard and to help her country avoid another 9/11.Pierre