The WMD Mirage: Iraq's Decade of Deception and America's False Premise for War

by Craig R. Whitney

Book Overview

Features the official report from the bipartisan Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- named by President Bush to try to prevent similar policy debacles in Iran and North Korea.

It also includes the official speeches, United Nations reports, and declassified government investigation reports that show, step by step, how the United States got the crucial question of arms in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586483617
• ISBN13: 9781586483616
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 671 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Definitive Report

Americans absolutely love conspiracy theories. It seems that it is much easy to believe in a conspiracy with 'they' being out to get you than to simply say that a bunch of people screwed up. And now it seems that we've finally found one to, hopefully, replace the conspiracy that killed Kennedy and perhaps even the one about the UFO's at Roswell. The truth appears to be bad enough. The intelligence agencies of the United States, Britain, Australia, Israel, Germany, France and Russia all got it wrong. (Yes, France and Russia believed in the WMD's as well but didn't want an invasion because they were getting preferential oil pricing from Iraq to trade for weapons.) The real problem here is that if we believe in a conspiracy, then we won't feel it necessary to take the steps to fix the real problem. This book has been dismissed as centrist propaganda by one reviewer. I don't know what that is, left wing I know, right wing I know. Centrist to me says that the writer is trying to be unbiased - and that's what I really want to read. It seems to me that the book is pretty fairly balanced. My only real complaint is that it doesn't have an index, and with its format, it is sometimes difficult to go back and see where it said something. For another report, the article in the Atlantic in the January/February 2004 by Kenneth M. Pollack titled Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong is highly recommended - It's available on line at no charge.